You know you have a Discogs addiction when..

..you go out to the country to visit relatives; you see they have 50-60 old vinyl LP that many are on labels you've never heard of before and that they live so much in the past that they have no internet nor computers and won't let you bring those records back with you so you can submit them (the telephone is still disc dial). Very frustrating and I am planning on visiting them again soon but staying over a long weekend so I can at least write all info down.

You never sign out (even when you say you are going to) because you are afraid a bug will arise that prevents you from logging back in. FOREVER!

...you didn't quit after Discogs v3 and v4.

Instead of using the little time to yourself, doing a bit of bedtime book reading. You check forums and check/edit your inventory, in the dark under an evil electronic glow...
When you find yourself staring at a Discogs page you opened on in 1.5 secs autopilot; when you meant to open your text messages. When you list cd's for sale that you'd never have parted with til death do us part last year, to improve your inventory!

When you realize that obsessing over racist crap is taking time away from those things in one's real life that are ever so much more important.

(related to what inexpressible posted) ...you came back after you requested your name to be posted here promising you would never use Discogs ever again.

...the points listed in the link in the first post of this thread make perfect sense.

...you have a dream ing Discogs (as already mentioned in the famous list). On one occasion I had to go to hospital to get my wisdom teeth out and I had to be put under a general anesthetic. Before the procedure the nurse asked me if I had any questions and I asked "do people dream under a general anesthetic?" The nurse stated she didn't know. I was put under and then had a dream about editing this artist page (yes, it did happen to me and it was that aptly named page out of all the artist pages in Discogs). I then woke up and groggily informed the nurse "people can dream whilst under the knife". I've had other Discogs dreams, but the one described above is the most memorable.

When your on here hopin for a over night sale b4 u've even boiled the kettle at 6.30am. And said 5 mins ago in another thread you had to stop waffeling in forums, As you've got 9.7mb of mobile net to last till Friday. And you dive straight back in. No self-restraint works! Silverleaf it's true it's bad if it's negatively affecting your life, but it was a very important topic to get worked up and care about. Your not losing sleep over a fullstop being used instead of a comma or something (well you might be!)

mother_adrenaline
As you've got 9.7mb of mobile net to last till Friday.

eep - how much do you go through in a day just on forums alone?
you may want to save some should you get an order, otherwise your customer may get impatient if you are unable to respond. :s

How much do i use bringing down the tone and intelligence of Discogs? :) Well I definitly use -alot- less bytes if i untick/don't load images from my settings! Makes internet a little less colourful and alive, but needs must when your culitvating a addiction. And obviously i need to see images for annoying things like Captcha +seeing how rubbish my (cropped to within an inch of identification) latest avatar looks! This comment, was clearly not life or death. I'd never survive war (if internet was rationed!)

M_A, I completely agree that it's a very important topic. But the only ones that can implement any change in the marketplace couldn't be bothered to make even 1 post there. More than just sad.

Several very good points were raised... to no avail.

I think i said somewhere in that sizable thread that is a dangerous topic (a minefield if you will) Each time i posted i felt a bit sick incase somebody came back at me all shouty. Cowardness and silence is much safer (+'believe it or not' is my usual mode all2often) It's such a volatile topic that althought i'm sure Staffers've strong opinions on the matter. But I suspect if Discogs staff had/have lawyers, they'd probably advise them2keep hush+protect the empire (if you will). No one man can change it SL

For what it's worth (and i know this doesn't change or absolve the big issues one iota) I have a feeling you've much feelings of RESPECT towards you from other Discoger's. I certainly do not trivialise your efforts. I don't know how to solve it. All we can do ourselves in our own lifes is give a little mutual respect. (not saying switch off and stop caring) But Try be at ease for an evening. Enjoy a cuppa. Don't burn yourself out Warrior dude :)
Right. I was supposed2b conserving Internet MB wasn't i...

I love how your posts will often make me smile in an often too serious world!
Thank you and I'll try not to burn out. :)

... you start buying stuff just for proper editing.

What am i the Discogs jester? :) Right it's suddenly artic cold (exhaggeration but not by much). All i want is carbs and hot cordial (only because i've run out of wine mind!) Outta here. For a bout 5 bloody minutes probably!

When you re-load the page to see if it's been five minutes yet. HEH!

you know you have an addiction when you find yourself reading all these posts?

More lively and every moving and growing compared to many other web forums (especially the adding and updating/checking one) but the forums: topics that actually interest me are fairly lively (til i become a contributer (one day, and on that day the coniving troll voters run their hadns with glee!)

And Praises... erm Black sabbath? No wait thats for metal...Praises Language and... brain cells?
People - speak in proper sentences!! Not Comments made up of wall to wall Txt language *shed's a tear of joy*

Typos do happen though! But most discogs s are such perfectionist you get 6 emails of someone editing their post to utter correct'edness. It bothers me too! But I've tried to stop doing that edit edit edit! What's worse a few typos or multiple near identical emails? I'm actually torn!

You start thinking your actual name is Mother Adrenaline

mother_adrenaline
Instead of using the little time to yourself, doing a bit of bedtime book reading. You check forums and check/edit your inventory, in the dark under an evil electronic glow...

hahahah that's me and sometimes not in the dark!

slur
... you start buying stuff just for proper editing.

This! :)

No disrespect intended and you are a really good ogger, but I have to post this... http://discogs.versitio.com/help/forums/topic/347998

I'm sure I'd like a pair myself, but if that's the only reason to get them, then yeah... :)

slur
... you start buying stuff just for proper editing.

I'm guilty. I've actually bought cassette tapes at a thrift store just for editing, not even because I wanted them.

matracas
You know you have a Discogs addiction when..

… you've looked up this thread a second time for any new posts. :P

loukash
you've looked up this thread a second time for any new posts. :P

Have to keep up with the thread, you know.

Better than video games!!

loukash
You know you have a Discogs addiction when..

haiyai2u
Better than video games!!

for sure, i catch up with good friends and they talk about the video games they have been playing and i can tell them about this rare and/or strange cassette i found and added to discogs :)

matracas
You know you have a Discogs addiction when..

...she's slamming the door for good.

matracas

You know you have a Discogs addiction when..

yuhann
...she's slamming the door for good...

...and you don't even notice it, because you're looking trough a loupe, trying to figure out if the mould SID Code is in fact IFPI 94K1 and not IFPI 94KI.

anssisal
...and you don't even notice it, because you're looking trough a loupe, trying to figure out if the mould SID Code is in fact IFPI 94K1 and not IFPI 94KI.

Hahahaha

I was laughing but now, one minute later, I could just see this happening to me....
Gonna buy some flowers for the misses today :)