Really like them in general and did my best to correctly submit information about media in my collection.
Then everything went bad in an unexpected way. I was using Firefox on a Mac to interact with the site. Apparently they added a bunch of javascipt to the site that would automatically fill some fields that I didn't even understand, but the scripts did not execute correctly or even at all on my system. Later I got an angry message from someone at the site telling me that my submissions were unacceptable, though it isn't clear if some or all data was backed out or what. Given the timing it seems they were targeting IE6 on Windows and could not imagine any other kind of user. They could have somehow checked script function on the incoming data, and apparently eventually did that, but they got angry at me instead even though I put quite a bit of effort into correctness.
Have stayed away since, but still take this as a warning about the kinds of things that can go wrong even with the most well meaning contributed data type site. And unfortunately this kind of music data continues to have relatively low value to most audiences.
I can't speak to your experience, and I'm sorry you had a bad one, but just to clarify for anyone who is not familiar with the site, the review and voting on the data submissions is done by other users.
Perhaps you ran into someone who was particularly passionate about that artist, or having a particularly bad day, but I'd be surprised if it was any of the site's developers.
(PS: If a submission does not get any negative feedback, it gets auto-accepted after some time in the queue. If it gets negative feedback, it will be rejected, and the author can modify and resubmit it.)
Wow, a bunch of neg votes because I tried to summarize my experience. I should just hide instead?
Sure, I may have misunderstood that part. So not a dev. Which means we have what?
Get excited about a web site that implements a cool idea. Read the instructions carefully. Submit what appears to be correct and relevant information. Receive a stream of psycho rage emails from various people over a period of months. Sorry I didn't understand something about the input process or how to correctly respond to the rage emails. My central point of being careful interacting with contributed data sites stands. Most people do not go into such things expecting the result might be a great deal of rage mail with no clear way to respond.
Then everything went bad in an unexpected way. I was using Firefox on a Mac to interact with the site. Apparently they added a bunch of javascipt to the site that would automatically fill some fields that I didn't even understand, but the scripts did not execute correctly or even at all on my system. Later I got an angry message from someone at the site telling me that my submissions were unacceptable, though it isn't clear if some or all data was backed out or what. Given the timing it seems they were targeting IE6 on Windows and could not imagine any other kind of user. They could have somehow checked script function on the incoming data, and apparently eventually did that, but they got angry at me instead even though I put quite a bit of effort into correctness.
Have stayed away since, but still take this as a warning about the kinds of things that can go wrong even with the most well meaning contributed data type site. And unfortunately this kind of music data continues to have relatively low value to most audiences.