-------------------------------------------------------------------------


 is "a user-built database of music information."

"Imagine a site with discographies of all labels, all artists, 
all cross-referenced. It's getting closer every day."


You know you've been using Discogs too much when...

 1) You buy a record just so you can submit it.

 2) You risk getting into trouble at work by checking your pendings.

 3) You check your pendings on an hourly, rather than a daily basis.

 4) Your pendings are resubbed within minutes of them getting a (N) vote.

 5) You're putting messages up on web forums asking if people can send 
    you details on records missing from the database.

 6) You're asking artists on said web forums their real names so you can 
    update their profiles.

 7) You have "discogs dreams" (anyone who had one will know what I mean).

 8) You're borrowing CDs from your friends to submit, but you don't 
    actually listen to them.

 9) You know from memory what releases are missing from a given label's 
    entry.

10) You have 20 windows open on your computer on a regular basis.

11) Even when every single record you own is already submitted, you've
    checked every single one of them to see if there's anything you may
    have missed.

12) Your prayers at night go something like "Bless me, Lord Teo, let all
    my pendings get 3 (Y)'s in a week, keep me safe from 'as above' and
    forgive those who covet MP3s..."

13) You turn on your computer for the sole reason that you realised you 
    made a mistake on a pending (or worse: you just don't bother to turn 
    off your computer anymore).

14) You've considered buying a scanner big enough to scan your 12" vinyl
    covers just so you can update the database.
14a) You purchase a new digital camera just to get better images for 
     Discogs. 

15) You've got piles of CDs all around the house sorted into 
    'submitted', 'drafted' and 'to-be-drafted'.

16) You dream about having your own CD shop and using discogs as a 
    reference and a computer in the shop where the customers can search
    discogs for albums (and of course adding zillions of CDs from the 
    the shop).

17) You desperately search for some error (release date, catalog number)
    in a listing just so you can fix some minor spelling error in the 
    'Release Notes' that has been bothering you.

18) You lose sleep over the fact that you can't think of anything to 
    submit to discogs, but you're sure there has to be *something* you 
    own that's not in the system. 
18a) You get out of bed in the middle of the night to check.
    
19) You start making all the listings from bands you *really* like as 
    perfect as possible, even if they didn't really need the alterations.

20) You fail to understand the idea behind rank hunting (I mean, why do
    you really need *more* rank?) 

21) You do a little dance when your submission limit is increased by one. 
21a) You stop doing the little dance because now you're too busy trying 
     to figure out what you should submit into that extra slot!
21b) You started doing the little dance again when Rock and Jazz were 
     getting accepted, because now you have more options to submit.

22) You start threads on other music forums bragging about what you've 
    gotten approved on discogs.

23) You contemplate borrowing your dad's jazz records a box at a time 
    to submit to jazzogs. 

24) Frankie Bones has your home address.

25) You've actually *bought* something from the marketplace.

26) You try to explain discogs to female friends.
26a) And you can't understand why they aren't interested...

27) You've started to understand Mistah_Wedding_Deejay!

28) You have a notepad file called discogsupdates.txt full of notes 
    and links.

29) You're typing while resting your feet on the next box of records 
    you're going to check.

30) You physically can't *move* until you've corrected the artists on 
    those 20 compilation entries!

31) You've filled in a medical form and at some point written the words 
    'Obsessive Compulsive Disorder'.

32) You've contributed to the 'Best Discogs Threads Ever' thread...

33) You are moderating so much that you start noticing that newspaper 
    headlines are not capitalized properly.

34) You know every release and every album, EP, promo, single or video 
    by every artist per territory and sublabels linked to the major 
    records labels, but you've no clue what they actually sound like. 

35) To settle an argument between colleagues, you nonchalantly send 
    them a URL that begins with www.discogs.com/release... 

36) You realized that QWERTY really is another state of mind.

37) You know the squares of every number from 1 to 50.

38) You've scoured right through 'Not on label' to see if there's any 
    cat. numbers on anonymous white labels that you can match to full 
    releases.

39) You have a folder/burnt DVD's for collecting (Disc-)Ogger Sets from
    the "Mixes" forum.

40) You drive to work listening to Ogger Sets.

41) You read this at work.

42) You go sleeping too late every day, just because things are going 
    on here.

43) You're naked while cleaning your discogs slipmats with a hoover : D

44) You rip your records mostly to fill in those track duration fields.

45) You have more oggers in your MSN list than people you met before.

46) You LOL at colorful smilies and backgrounds in other forums.

47) Your wife asks you "When are you going to get off that website and
    play with our two children?" 
47a) And you say '2?!?!' 

48) You go back to an artist you remember updating and it's all correct,
    and there's a glow of pride. 

49) You went to the Ogger's London Meet-up.
49a) ...despite the fact that you live in America!

50) You buy copies of albums you've downloaded just so you can enter 
    them (and still listen to the MP3s).

51) You search the web for better images for discogs.
51a) You get annoyed when you find a great pic and it's on eBay...  
     with that annoying iPix watermark image that no one wants to see. 

52) You've given up on using discogs as a way to denote your collection 
    and are merely using it as a solid resource. 

53) You spend hours (and I mean hours) figuring out where all the tracks
    on some "best of" compilations came from so you can add the list to 
    the Release Notes.

54) You've wondered what the significance of the discogs entry number 
    for this is. 

55) Half the links on the site you click are purple instead of blue.

56) It brightens your day when a mod leaves a comment with their 
    (Y) vote.

57) You dispense advice to people who have posted their pendings on the
    forum.
57a) You dispense advice to people who HAVEN'T posted their pending on 
     the forum, but you've seen a mistake. 
57b) (Particularly since rock) You submit an update and then check the 
     pending queue to see if there are any without the updated style. 
     Then you mail the submitter to tell them about your update. 

58) Discogs downtime gives you nervous twitches.

59) You know who all the girls on Discogs are.
59a) ...and their email addresses.
59b) ...and their real names.
59c) ...and you have had frequent contacts with them.
59d) ...by telephone.

60) You have dated someone from Discogs.

61) You don't see the point of dating anyone when there's so many 
    records to submit.

62) Because the boss would get a bit suspicious if you were sat at your
    desk typing with a stack of records on your knee, you write out all
    the drafts on a piece of paper and bring that into work. 

63) You regularly check how many people have added releases in their 
    collection to items that you had added.

64) You get annoyed when someone enters new releases without dates and 
    they appear at the top of the page. 
64a) ...and you've been seriously tempted to guestimate a release year
     just so it chronologically fits in nicely with the rest of the 
     releases. 
64b) You even get dismayed when two releases have the same release year,
     but you know they're not in the right release order (but you just
     can't remember which month each one came out in). 

65) The internet is more important to you than real life.
65a) You thought life could really be more important than the internet 
     after Teo told us the forums would close.

66) You post in threads like this.

67) You understand this, agree with it, are guilty of much of it and 
    create and publish a proper list based on the thread!


-------------------------------------------------------------------------


[Edited by hmvh, with contributions by Jayfive, cowcud, Psyloid, MONK, 
seele-brennt, JT_X, jape, SirTweak, Ducon, donnacha, cthulhu303, kreuztot, 
kompressorkanonen, Rekel.]


I think, therefore I am online.