Here are three caricatural portraits of users. Probably none matches exactly how you behave, but from which one do you feel closest ?

The happy gatherer
For him, the main database is a just a place from where he can download his profiles, and he does not really mind the quality of the data. Except in rare cases, he takes them as they are. Sometimes, he looks at updates and downloads  them without real verification. He never contributes. He tried once or twice, but since he never read the rules, his contributions were refused.

What makes him happy : a very large database where almost all his profiles are available.
What makes him angry : a profile that doesn't exist. He hates to have to build it.


The "my local database" purist
For him, the most important thing is to have all his profiles match exactly his wishes. He downloads existing profiles when they are on disposal, but spends nearly as much time to put the data in the form he wants than when he has to build a new one. Generally, he rewrites the overview, change the order of cast, uses common names and takes off the "credited as", and he has also his own rules for title, studios and genre. Then he locks his profiles and never makes updates from the main database, and never contributes changes to existing profiles.

What makes him happy : a new profile that matches sufficiently the contribution rules so that he may contribute it, just to please the happy gatherers.
What makes him angry : rules that are more and more precise, so that he cannot contribute anymore, and many of his profiles are not available for the happy gatherers.

The "contribution rules" purist
For him, the most important thing is to contribute to the main database. He has to follow the rules, which may be a constraint, but makes him sure that if he has done a good job, nobody will be able to change it, and he will stay the last in the contribution list for his contributed profiles. When a rule is not precise enough, so somebody else could modify the profile he has contributed, he asks for a stricter rule. He always look at updates, votes yes or no on each change, and generally downloads accepted changed profiles.

What makes him happy : a vote yes on his contribution
What makes him angry : a vote no on his contribution

By and large I am a happy gatherer. I will contribute cover images if there are none or I have one in a better quality.

I will do contribute initial profiles with basic information.

What I don't do is contributing text data on an existing profile. Firstly because I don't really care about most of the informatin provided in a profile and secondly because the contribution rules could have been written by german bureaucrats. The only rule that is missing is, what happens when I have to pee while I am editing a profile.

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Here are three caricatural portraits of users. Probably none matches exactly how you behave, but from which one do you feel closest ?

None come even close to how I behave.  You should have included a 'none of the above' choice.

I second that....

I don't really fit into any of them either. Bits from each for me too.

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None come even close to how I behave.  You should have included a 'none of the above' choice.

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I second that....

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I don't really fit into any of them either. Bits from each for me too.

I voluntary avoided this non-choice to drive everybody to try to find his fundamental behavior. But I admit that some users may really not find themselves here.

Perhaps you could describe yourself in the same manner (trying to caricature just a little):

General definition, how you behave, what makes you happy, what makes you angry. 

If I had to pick, I'd say the last one. Although I'm not obcessed with contributing, I like to do so. I usually add new UCP why there's no one matching my DVD's. I try to follow the rules although I don't usually pay much atention to them. I'm more the kind of profiler that, corrects his behavour when he's told of or something.

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because the contribution rules could have been written by german bureaucrats. The only rule that is missing is, what happens when I have to pee while I am editing a profile.

   

Well, I wouldn't call myself a purist, I'm not pedantic about my cast and crew data, but I do try to follow the contribution rules since I have to do a lot of profiling and contributions myself, living in a small locality I can't depend on someone else doing it for me. And I also write very long sentences.