Warning: Rant ahead
I can deal with vandals or spammers or foul mouthed idiots. They're easy. We ban them. But well meaning, industrious and generally nice members .... who are idiots .... are becoming a problem. They mean well, but their information is wrong and so many of us veteran users and mods spend a lot of our time FIXING or RESTORING lines on pages that they change.
No one wants to be rude or mean to a new member, and we've all made mistakes ourselves in the past, but the sheer number of new guys making tons (and i mean TONS) of updates and changes is exhausting.
One member swept in here about a few months ago, made about 50 or so changes (nearly all of which were wrong) and then got bored and stopped visiting. But now someone has to go to all the pages and change BACK what he did. Arghhhhh. I figure I will kill an entire day trying to fix what he screwed up (and no, I can't undo the work because there have been interim edits made by other members since then that are correct and would take longer to re-create in their entirety).
This is the curse of becoming popular (IMFDB that is) . I've also been reading OTHER websites that mention IMFDB. They all mention the 'wiki' aspect of it and that they invite ANYONE to come on over and "start editing" to 'make us better" .... I hear over and over again from posters on other websites how they're gonna check out IMFDB and 'correct all of OUR errors' when THEY'RE the ones who don't know what they're talking about.
One problem is that GUN STORE or GUN DEALERS or even the manufacturers don't know what they're talking about when it comes to what was used in the MOVIES. Which is why I trust info from armorers far more than any random guy "in the firearms world". Those guys don't even realize that you have to blank adapt auto loading weapons. But we collide over and over and over again with guys who have weapons knowledge, but not MOVIE weapons knowledge.
Don't even get me started on 12 year olds whose only firearms experience is video games.
Anyway, we must be vigilant against erroneous information. And there will always be members who make honest mistakes. And we must constantly try to correct them.