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Fake Collection Users (aka I Have Everything Users) Rant
Why do this site do nothing about them? You can add everything to your collection without proof, even if it's proven to be 1 in existence and is stored in a museum.
Yet admins not even delete those items from their collection.
This site needs to ask proof of ownership at least for rare things.
It's a problem that needs to be addressed.
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Don
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The admins and a few well known users do know about this issue. If you were active in the Discord in 2023, some solutions were thought of, but then again, I wouldn't expect you to know about those, so here are some excerpts from that announcement:
"it should be NOT COMPLICATED for the user to prove ownership, for example: uploading a picture of the unit, with a paper with their name on it. too much of a hustel." "some high end collectors have around 20 limited editions in their collection, so it has to be easy for them to add things in their collection without a any trouble" "we respect someone's privacy as well, so private collectors should also have a way of adding," "Trust can be included, when someone has 2 / 3 limited editions, we believe he owns the 4th as well."
Last I've heard, this system is still in the works, but as a regular user of this site, I can't update you on where the process is now in it's current state. I'm only here just to let you know that they, the admins, know.
I was actually thinking about ranting about this also. Thanks for doing it for me!
you welcome!
Its like a one of a kind Gamecube signed by JFK with a pee stain on it and yet seven people "apparently" own its
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I've seen this a handful of times. I'm not really sure how they could even go about avoiding the issue, because requiring more proof to say you own an item would be an immediate turn-off for any newcomers to the site. I think the solution would be to look into any accounts with more than 100 items, and investigate their account. Usually these 'own everything' users created their account recently, don't update the default profile picture, and don't provide a description or photos on their profile.
That would be a quick way to catch them. Another would be to monitor accounts to see if any are adding multiple extremely rare items to their page. I once saw an account that claimed to own the Atari Panther prototype, an Atari Lynx prototype and a Sega Pluto prototype. Obviously nobody can own all three, so it's clear the account was just adding anything.
Another good method would be adding a report system, so if you see a spam account like this, anybody could just report them, fill in their reasoning and the reports are manually reviewed by someone who works on the website.
Hey :)
We are well aware of this issue, and the fact that it bothers serious collectors. We are working on a solution that is already being tested by us, but it isnt just as easy as a lot of people think. I was gonna have a talk with the team in like 2 days anyway and im gonna bring up yalls concerns and thoughts to this, the feedback is much appreciated. But like KoolAid3 said, we dont want to overcomplicate the system for newcoming users and like you said "turn them off". So there needs to be a balance in that system to make it go smoothly. Also most of the news when it comes to changes will be announced on the Discord server first.
Also if you have some particular profiles in mind, please send me their names privately via a DM in discord under the name __ kodiak __ or any feedback etc in the cv-feedback-suggestions channel on the CV discord :)
I hope this could clear up some questions
Best Regards
Kodiak
thank you for info!