A lot of us have been sifting through these for quite awhile, reporting them as we can, but the admins only have so much time on their hands.
I wouldn't favor giving most or every user the ability to delete entries, though. Plenty of well-meaning people would probably remove listings that had a lot of effort put into them simply because they weren't familiar with some variation or other. Every site I've been on that has complete 100% edit anything winds up with totally jacked up listings - ko1ru and I came here from a site like that, and it didn't take long for it to become totally worthless because of people being careless. Countless hours wasted on both our parts.
I've gotta agree with this.
I've also gotta agree that dupes are an annoying problem that gets out of hand.
3 things - We could (maybe?) set it up so that "add new item" only becomes available AFTER using browse + looking at the correct page, to see if it's already there,
- When you're submitting a new item & enter its name + platform...isn't a check done to see if it already exists?
- Get a group of older members to volunteer to work w/ newer members, and - implement a rotation for taking turns w/ helping newer members...I dunno, maybe have them get their 1st 5 or 10 entries double-checked by their helpers & have the helpers explaining what they are - and are not - doing and why, before giving complete submission freedom to just anyone?
I'd be willing to do this.
Also, as gravy, it'd also get more people to know more people and become more recognized & active community members