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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2375
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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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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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2375
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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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2375
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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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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thunderize1 Posts: 150
26 days ago
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I have encountered that and I let Ron Know to change it for me to continue. or I will give him the data of what I have discovered and he sometimes finishes it in the say "whitman" category
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Ronbatman Administrator Posts: 2375
24 days ago
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Whitman is an alternate publisher so it should be submitted under Whitman Marvel Super-Heroes.
Thanks for asking this Ben,
Ron
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