New editor (welcome!), joins yesterday, makes one obscure and obviously wrong edit, and then goes dark. I just wonder what happened for them to take this step. It’d be an interesting look into the psyche for me.
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Making sense of the MusicBrainz website is pretty complex. It is easy to make mistakes as a beginner. And if when joining you turn off email notification then follow-ups to questions may not happen. I can also understand why someone would not come back when maybe embarrassed they broke something.
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I don’t want to judge anyone, but maybe Angels || Demons.
I had one of these in November of 2024. Account had been created almost 4 years earlier and had no edits. First edit in 4 years was to change the name of a group that had 2 vinyl releases with art work showing the groups name.
I wonder if people are trying to change a value in the tags on their own files, and think they have to make a change on MB itself for that? Like in the case of Edit #142831037 - MusicBrainz, maybe they had the 200 002 release that was mistagged as 100 001 and they were trying to fix that, but they edited the release name instead of switching to a different release in Picard.
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It would certainly explain all the edits at Edits for unknown album - MusicBrainz.
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That does seem to support my theory. I wonder if there’s some short text that could be added somewhere to help new users. Like if they’re coming from Picard, maybe something in Picard like “if this isn’t the right release, you can select a different one by … or add a new release to MB by …”