Quote Originally Posted by Cat View Post
So seeing as I collect statues and busts, they don't count?

A minority product is voted against, as its a minority product.

Coming up with all these ways to discount what others have and enjoy from 'counting' as a part of their cherished collection = pointless data.

Especiallt when plush toys count, but not statues and busts? Besides the media, they're quite a similar thing.

And kitbashes count? They're not official product. They're not even product made in numbers. Yet they count, while tons of official product doesn't?

So I could have every figure made, yet you could have more because you mash different heads into different bodies? Because you have a fancharacter you made? That totally blows any numbers out the water, as what comparison can be made there? None.

Seems like a great way to minimise others' collection for self-fellating purposes.

'Oh you have and enjoy all these Transformers products? They don't count. You have nothing. Bai.'
It's not a counting method to cover everything that would legitimately count as a "Transformers item" or "Transformers toy" or "Transformers action figure" (three main parameters people count for their collections, which gives significantly different figures to each).... this counting method is to create a comparative method between collectors. The reason it excludes certain items by popular vote ends up coming down to what you said - it is a product collected by a small number of people... not because people are trying to limit the final count of others.

People are free to count their collection in any way they want.

This "counting method" is just for statistical purposes, NOT for forcing people to change their own counting method.

I have a more objective counting method than the UMC, but I'm not trying to gain statistical data on collecting habits. This UMC project is the only one that aims to collect that data, and preferred to include as many people as possible. As such, democratically elected parameters of the collection of data for those stats was the fairest thing. Otherwise, for a project to collect statistical data (NOT to compare one person's collection to another, or to change their counting method), many people wouldn't bother being involved if they didn't feel like they contributed in the parameters (if they were just dictated by just one person).

I personally have never used the UMC, because I don't like how complicated it is. But I don't like hearing people criticising it (especially those who didn't even participate in the voting), because you are missing the point of it.

IT IS NOT A COUNTING METHOD TO CHANGE YOUR OWN PERSONAL COUNTING METHOD - IT IS JUST FOR STATISTICAL DATA OVER A LONG PERIOD OF TIME.

Thankyou.