Off-Topic Forum

Is there a reason that some long time regulars who add scans of their cards but will only do the front of the card? I guess I just don't understand how you can be proud of your contribution by doing half the job! it can't be so hard to turn the card over and push the button again 

It can if they don't have the card personally.

Right now I'm only adding fronts, the backs were already done before I joined the site. Lol

Haha true

Curious. Have you found any Incorrect back only images as you are doing this?

I'm working on the Dutch gum cards right now, all backs are blanks & have already been filled in.

Best guess is they only have time to do a single scan?  Or they did scan both sides and the back didn't look good.  Once in a while I'll scan a card and it shifts on my scanner so I'll have to rescan it for a better image.

Before I had found this site, I had scanned a large portion of my cards. But only the fronts.  Those images were easy enough to add, but to add a back I have to figure out which box a card is in before I can scan it.  I have been doing that as I find missing images of cards I own, but it can be a pain.

And to think, I scanned in all of those fronts so I could look at them without figuring out what boxes they were in...

The real reason is they need the points credited to them even though they do not have that card but what they assume is the same back. Sad part is this takes away points from the person who actually has the card and is willing to add both front and back of an actual card.

I think back in the real early days of the site only the fronts could be added. If this were about 15-20 years ago I would say they scanned the front before the site had the capability of scanning the backs. However I think it has been long enough that unless the card is from a super rare set then someone should have added the back by now.