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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2353
12/5/2023
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As you know the variant issue has become overwhelming. Newsstand and direct, facsimile, foil, metal, virgin, holographic, glow-in-the-dark, bioluminescent, Mark's Jewelers, B&W, store variants, artist variants, Kickstarter, naughty and nice.
We have some great admins on the site who work behind the scenes approving things, fixing things and displaying their expertise in the comic field. Lately, we have noticed that the same people's names pop up repeatedly while others have vanished. We ran some queries on the database and found some admins aren't doing anything. Today we downgraded 7 admins to regular members. We are strongly encouraging our existing admins to work on variants. They will be working through the variant submission system.
With that in mind, please do not submit variants to my email or the forum. Use our automated system so that some people aren't jumping to the front of the line by submitting on the forum. The exception is if the title or regular issue doesn't exist in our system. We cannot expect you to submit a missing variant if the regular issue isn't there.
We ask for your patience because this is a massive issue. Last week I spent 25 hours on variants and as of yesterday, we have more variants in the system than the week before. You can help by submitting the right way. Some of you submit fantastic variants for approval: great pictures, clear descriptions and selling prices. Others submit items with bad pictures, no pictures, wrong store variants, information already in the system, personal information about how old they were when they bought the book. Seriously. Please help us, help you.
Thanks
Ron
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collectibleshop Posts: 2318
12/5/2023
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this (or some version of it) needs to also be pinned on the top of Database/missing Issue forum, as many people never look at the announcements board, and when this post gets moved down the list there, it won't show on the full forums page. I've bookmarked it to direct people to it when needed, hope more people do that.
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Gilgandra Posts: 1246
12/5/2023
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As a former admin i never thought I'd hear Ron say those words.
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2353
12/6/2023
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What part surprises you Gilgandra? Certain admins chose to step away but I still miss them and their work on the site, Gilgandra, Tracy and others. The ones we downgraded left and didn't tell us. People come and go which is totally normal. If you're an admin we should be talking about it.
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Gilgandra Posts: 1246
12/7/2023
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Ronbatman wrote:
What part surprises you Gilgandra? Certain admins chose to step away but I still miss them and their work on the site, Gilgandra, Tracy and others. The ones we downgraded left and didn't tell us. People come and go which is totally normal. If you're an admin we should be talking about it.
Yes, admins should be talking to each other. So much hard work is being done, Your the only admin i see now Ron. What surprises me you asked! To hear they left without saying anything (breaks my heart).
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2353
12/8/2023
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On the positive side, we have people like Shadow, OHS69Grad, Casper, Scottwesty working behind the scenes adding books, variants and comments. I'm hopeful that the 5 admins I sent emails to will be fully engaged and help us knock out the variants. (down over 100 from Tuesday)
That little number at the top of the site that says comics 1,223,955 continues to grow.
If anyone wants to be an admin please send me an email and we will talk.
Ron
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BasementComics Posts: 783
12/8/2023
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Message sent
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Xvipah73 Posts: 265
12/10/2023
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I've emailed a few times. I don't, honestly, remember if we ever really talked about it or not. But, the offer to help is always open.
Ronbatman wrote:
On the positive side, we have people like Shadow, OHS69Grad, Casper, Scottwesty working behind the scenes adding books, variants and comments. I'm hopeful that the 5 admins I sent emails to will be fully engaged and help us knock out the variants. (down over 100 from Tuesday)
That little number at the top of the site that says comics 1,223,955 continues to grow.
If anyone wants to be an admin please send me an email and we will talk.
Ron
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thunderize1 Posts: 150
12/11/2023
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Message sent.
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taz2008 Posts: 7
12/11/2023
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sent email, hopefully it's to the right address.
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2353
12/13/2023
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Basement and Thunderize, I sent both of you an email about what we are looking for in an admin.
Taz and Xvipah, please sent me an email at ron (at) comicspriceguide.com remove the space and parenthese. We can talk about it.
Ron
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taz2008 Posts: 7
12/13/2023
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Just did so
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thunderize1 Posts: 150
12/13/2023
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Just replied to email
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BasementComics Posts: 783
12/13/2023
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Thanks Ron, got it.
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2353
12/14/2023
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To further show how many issues we have added this is what I said 6 days ago...
"That little number at the top of the site that says comics 1,223,955 continues to grow."
Now it says 1,225,147 or almost 1200 issues in 6 days! That is bonkers!
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thunderize1 Posts: 150
12/14/2023
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And it does not help that every shop and influencer puts out their own 50+ variant's on each comic each month.
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taz2008 Posts: 7
12/14/2023
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that's crazy
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2353
12/20/2023
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Two weeks ago, I originally posted this and our admins have raced in to help. For variant submissions, we are currently 500 less than two weeks ago. Since we get hundreds of submissions a week this is quite a feat! In the last two weeks, we have added about 2000 new comics and variants to the system.
If you are an admin on Comics Price Guide, thank you!
Ron
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thunderize1 Posts: 150
1/8/2024
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looks like we added around 100 just today alone from the variant's list.
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jarhead_84 Posts: 481
3/7/2024
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Question for approving variants, if someone submits a whitman variant, do we approve it or reject and have it resubmitted under the Whitman Publication page?
Issue in Question Marvel Super-heroes doesnt have any issues in the whitman publications
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