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Keith53 wrote:

If you read the treasure boilerplate in every LFR adventure

My point was, players don't read such comments. And as such never know that's what they should be doing. I've also never had a DM (and I've played with a wide variety of them) ask me to do that. If I asked my players to do it, I know for a fact they wouldn't be able to do it that second. How many from a pick-up game would then do it when no other DM has asked them to, I'm unsure about.

kinevon wrote:

You do know that you can order multiple game sessions for the same day, don't you?

Sure, but its yet another hoop you have to jump through just so you can update a buggy database. The more effort something requires, the less people that are going to do it. For example fixing your character is said to be often fruitless if you only shoot off the one report. Therefore we get threads where everyone tells the person not to bother.

That's the main problem with the database. Everyone here has the opinion that once you get one error such as an unreported game or a misreported game, you're out of luck, with the best you can hope for being that maybe it will get fixed. Once you get that one error, people start wondering why bother reporting games? It isn't to keep the character records accurate. And while I sympathise with the desire to keep the stats relevant to show WotC that people are playing LFR, not everyone is going to bother for just that.

I know for me I've had my first character incorrectly reported from day 1 due to a limitation in the database software. I came on here and asked how to fix it just like everyone else does when they get their first error, and I was told "don't bother because who knows if the staff will actually fix it" and to be honest this isn't a very inspiring comment to hear when you first start. It does make me care very little for the database.

Perhaps if WotC would make the database fixes much more user friendly (and hey, let's even make them user-changeable. Because its not like having only DMs do it is establishing anything. All it does is make sure players stop caring about keeping the database accurate) and perhaps more people would start using it. Although I think many will be at the stage where they think its too late because they've been playing too many unreported games. If you want these people to come back, you need an easy, friendly way for them to fix their characters.