In addition to mods accepting the submissions, I think it would keep the board more accurate if there was an add-on to that. For explanation purposes, lets call accurate members "trustees".
I think if it took 3 trustees to vote on accurate gear as an alternate way of submission acceptance, it would cut down on the likelihood of getting the wrong gear on an artists page.
I think it would be nice to have a "Challenge" button somewhere so if we see the wrong gear, it gets flagged and other members can come in and debate or vote whether or not it's accurate pending what evidence is posted to support it.
Will this end all wrong gear from getting posted? No. But It would make it more of a pain in the butt for people intentionally trying to wreck or spam the site.
I really dig the idea for this site. Everyone likes to keep a list of gear they use somewhere and I personally am always spending hours hunting down wikis, forums, band pages, and youtube for different gear. I think as members, our goal should be to first get the easy stuff out of the way. Other sites that list gear for members should be browsed and if the gear is accurate, added here. If we do that with all the others (UberPro, Premier Guitar, etc) and have all the content they do, we can then expand beyond them and quicker. That would make EquipBoard THE gear lookup source on the net. I'm doing this with my favorite bassists for now but when I run out of sources, Ill start going into other genres I'm not familiar with.
I'm going to post a link to over here on TalkBass. There is an amazing list of bass players Ive never heard of in my life, with unusual one of a kind gear that TalkBassers talk about. I'm sure in no time at all they'd have the bass player section overloaded with Jazz musicians with names we cannot pronounce. :)
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