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Admin has been very busy the last few days!

3 new features added from the new feature tracker:

On 2/24, the Transaction Checker feature that had been in "test" mode for more than a year finally was given the all clear.

On 2/25, transaction messaging during during the proposal stage had been added.

And today (2/26), one of my requests was added! The list of TBA/TBD sets. https://www.tcdb.com/IncompleteChecklists.cfm

It's worse than I thought - 572 of them. My user list only had 54! Anyway, this would be a great place for people to get in their database edits. :) And if you can't make the name edits, please enter IRs and we'll get those edits made, and hopefully eliminate this list!

The TBA/TBD is a great tool. I was guilty of adding some checklists a few years ago that contained too many and I need to go through and correct the incomplete checklists.

I noticed the message in the transaction section earlier today...thought to myself, hmm, that's new. 

No fingers are being pointed here. :) I'm just glad we finally have a tool that will help us identify these - since once a checklist gets loaded, it slips off the "Missing Checklists" reports.

Some may be a huge challenge, some might be a quick 30 second lookup. I was already looking and happened across a couple that had images but no name for the field. It's good - this will help us get better.

Does this mean, in situations of rare checklists, it would be more acceptable to load incomplete checklists now that they can be identified?

Shhhhhhhhhhhh. 

Maybe. It would depend.

 I knocked off a few baseball sets already. Will check back later when I have more time. This is great!

There should still be a strong effort made to complete the checklist. The only thing I don't like about the "TBA/TBD" sets feature (which, overall, I love) is that is can be used as a crutch for those who are only interested in tracking their collection to upload one-card checklists without doing some work. "Well I couldn't find any/much/enough other information, so I just put it in as TBD and figured someone else could help."

Bounty13, this is in no way directed at you. I know the dedication and time you put forth to get things right; I'm simply stating in general. Remember, the reason it wasn't okay to upload a TBA/TBD checklist was never because we didn't have a place to document which checklists were like that - that was just one of many good reasons, and the easiest to fall back on when asked why, if we're being honest (it was for me, anyway).

If you make a conscious effort to try and find a full checklist, and can't, this new tool is invaluable for helping us keep track of those that need work, and definitely puts us in a better position than we were two days ago (or whenever this kicked into effect). But I know that if I work in this area, and find a full checklist within a few minutes of searching the internet, I'll be very frustrated that myself or another member with appropriate permissions now must go in and do more work, and I'm sure others will feel the same - not that many would care about our feelings, but the point is that the help you'll find in that area under those circumstances would be drastically reduced if it becomes a reptitive cycle of a situation like I described above.

Long way to say that I like the feature, but just because it makes our lives easier doesn't mean that we should take the easy way out.

Awesome improvements to an already great site. Kudos to the Admin!