(2020-11-14, 03:52)Shredder_guitar Wrote: My second concern is that there is a charge for this that the public has built and is being capitalized on privately...to me...this is like building a statue then charging people to look at it.
Now that I think about it, it's obvious that TVDB charging for the same thing that was built for free was
always going to happen.
You see, the TVDB admin have
always taken free community data and kept it for themselves, often ignoring the same community's protests over the manner in which they took it and the way that they've kept it.
Here's how it's worked since... forever:
1} The community spends massive amounts of time to create massive amounts of tvshow data for free
2} The TVDB admin immediately rearrange and/or modify that data to suit
THEMSELVES, justifying it under an arbitrary set of rules that they themselves don't even follow most of the time
3} The community attempts to correct any wrong, contradictory, or just plain stupid, data rearrangement perpetrated by TVDB
4} The TVDB admin lock the data so only
they can "fix" it, requiring the community to (fruitlessly) beg the TVDB to see reason, upon which the TVDB typically calls the community a bunch of ignorant idiots who don't comprehend the majesty of the "TVDB Bible"
5} The TVDB then leaves that locked data to rot, often for YEARS, without any updates or corrections, infuriating everyone in the community who knows better, which is EVERYONE compared to the TVDB admin
6} Rinse/Repeat steps 1-5 1000's of times
So, the TVDB has
always stolen data entered for free from the community, and then treated it as their own, irrespective of logic or morality. Charging for it is simply another rung in their evolutionary ladder of undeserved, self-deluded entitlement.