TTM Manager best practices

[doughouse]

I've noticed two ways people use the TTM Manager: one way seems to be the way it was designed to be used, and the other way seems incorrect.

The way the vast majority of folks use the TTMM is to submit one entry to the address they're mailing to. If they're sending three cards, they'll enter a "3" into the required "# of items sent" field. They'll record the number that comes back.

But I also see a few people who create a separate entry for each item they send. If they're sending three cards, they' ll make three separate entries of one card each. They're all send on the same day, they're all received on the same day, it's clear there's just one envelope and SASE involved.

My concern is that this jukes the stats. If it's a prolific signer with hundreds of TTM entries it's not that big of a deal, but the other day I was looking for the address of a rookie and saw that they had a respectable 50% response rate. When I looked closer, however, I saw that it was actually one person who had sent him five cards, each with their own entry on that address. So it was actually one success, five failures, and a bunch of pendings. That's a big difference!

I can understand that some folks want to use the TTMM to track the individual cards in their TTM collection, but I don't think that's a responsible way to use this communal resource. Maybe it's not a big deal, maybe no one else really cares, but it's something I've been noticing and I was curious what the community thought about it.

[arfmax]

I agree with you, but it's hard enough to get people to enter the dates properly using the proper date convention in the TTMM.

[doniceage]

@doughouse

There is a simple solution report the issue. As the TTM has a feature that allows you to report issues and if you see that you can report it and explain that only one of the successes need to be counted not the other. The tools are there to fix it the members need to use it. The time that you took to post this you could have reported the issue and if everyone did their part everything would be legit. If you do not know how to report lmk.

Means more work for me as I know I done hundreds of reported TTM when a few members cleared up all te deaths over the past few years for a lot of the obscure guys and gals I had never heard of.