| nisav | Posted: Jul 7 2011 | IP Logged |
Admin Group  Joined: 01 March 2006 | For once i will post a wish list item but i need your help to make it a reality. The idea is fairly simple, a Grading Wizard, which asks questions about the comic in your hands and based on the answers provided suggest what the proper condition should be. So what i need from all of you is to determine, what those questions are, what the possible answers to those questions are, and what grade is assigned based on the answer. how is that for a challenge? one thing i am not looking for this to do is mass grading, just one issue at a time. __________________ Igor Nikitenko StashMyComics.com webmaster@stashmycomics.com |
| chipreece | Posted: Jul 7 2011 | IP Logged |
Moderator Group  SMC Blog Editor Joined: 16 September 2008 | That is enormously stellar! Okay, hmm... here's a start: Is the entire book intact (cover,all pages,all original, no restoration)? yes/no Are the interior pages yellowed? yes/no How significant are any tears in the book? A. NONE B. Minor C. Moderate, D. Severe Water damage? yes/no Wrinkling on cover/pages? A. NONE B. Minor C. Moderate, D. Severe Spine damage? A. NONE B. Minor C. Moderate, D. Severe Printing Errors? 1, 2, 3, 4 or more Smudging of ink? A. NONE B. Minor C. Moderate, D. Severe Any marks (i.e. drawing, writing, coloring done by your 5 year old child when you weren't looking :) )? A. NONE B. Minor C. Moderate, D. Severe __________________ Preorder my GN, METAPHASE, on Amazon! Twitter: @ChipReece |
| AvengersFan223 | Posted: Jul 7 2011 | IP Logged |
Senior Member  Joined: 28 January 2011 | How are the staples : A.No rust B.Minor Rust C.Major Rust
Are there any Missing Staples A. None B.One C.Both
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| AvengersFan223 | Posted: Jul 7 2011 | IP Logged |
| Senior Member Joined: 28 January 2011 | Is there any fading of ink A. NONE B. Minor C. Moderate, D. Severe
Are there any binding defects A. NONE B. Minor C. Moderate, D. Severe Is the book Brittle? Yes/No Is there any pieces Clipped out (AKA MARVEL VALUE STAMP) ------------------------------------------------------------ --------- Chip, under marks you should add stains
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| chipreece | Posted: Jul 7 2011 | IP Logged |
| Moderator Group SMC Blog Editor Joined: 16 September 2008 | JasonNewcomb wroteHere's an Overstreet Grading Guide chart that could be useful for mathetmatizing the grading process. It takes some of the guess work out of it.  Here's another chart that defines the terms and makes it more precise.  Way I see it a book is split up into 4 parts and then each part is also subdivided. Front cover - cover, edges, corners Back cover - same as front cover Spine - edge, staples Interior - interior cover, pages, spread, staples All questions you may have, will relate to one of those subdivisions. I'll start with that. I'll get to posting questions when I've had some sleep. Brilliant presentation! __________________ Preorder my GN, METAPHASE, on Amazon! Twitter: @ChipReece |
| AvengersFan223 | Posted: Jul 7 2011 | IP Logged |
| Senior Member Joined: 28 January 2011 | JasonNewcomb wroteHere's an Overstreet Grading Guide chart that could be useful for
mathetmatizing the grading process. It takes some of the guess work out of it. Here's another chart
that defines the terms and makes it more precise. Way I see it
a book is split up into 4 parts and then each part is also subdivided.Front cover - cover, edges, cornersBack cover - same as front coverSpine - edge, staplesInterior - interior cover, pages, spread, staplesAll questions you may have, will relate to one of those subdivisions. Wow, those are great charts, they show how many defects, and what the grade is for them  you get applause for that   |
| AvengersFan223 | Posted: Jul 7 2011 | IP Logged |
| Senior Member Joined: 28 January 2011 | JasonNewcomb wroteThanks guys.  But I hope you
don't think I made those charts. I scanned them from Overstreet Grading Guide. Its the effort that counts |
| nisav | Posted: Jul 8 2011 | IP Logged |
| Admin Group Joined: 01 March 2006 | you guys rock. i cant believe you were able to pull all
this info together so quickly. this is awesome. i want to build the detailed one first, this way we flush out all the questions and possibilities and then once its done i can roll a quick version from it. i think the grade needs to be given both ways as a numeric value and the good old letters. reason is someone might then be trying to mark it as such in their stash, and if we only provide the numeric value they wont know how to mark it in their stash since that uses the letters. next step i think is to put all those questions in an appropriate order and split them into groups, like JN said above. and then assign each answer a -X value. so all grading starts at 10/GM and go down from there as answers are being answered. i like the idea of providing a range answer. looking at that picture JN posted some items which teh answer is just moderate or severe, their is a range and not a single value. so probably keep track of a score at the lowest and highest points and at the end say "the issue is somwhere between X and Y". __________________ Igor Nikitenko StashMyComics.com webmaster@stashmycomics.com |
| AvengersFan223 | Posted: Sep 2 2011 | IP Logged |
| Senior Member Joined: 28 January 2011 | How is this coming along? |
| iancharcoal | Posted: Sep 3 2011 | IP Logged |
Groupie Joined: 17 March 2010 | would this grade be applied and stored for stashed comics? If so, then would the CGC/PGX column be extended to CGC/PGX/SMC, including a new dropdown for the SMC-determined grade or number?
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| nisav | Posted: Sep 6 2011 | IP Logged |
| Admin Group Joined: 01 March 2006 | this is a project for after the redesign, so still a bit
away. this would be a way to help you determine the comics condition, so then you can properly select it in the condition field. we are not starting our own grading thing like cgc/pgx. __________________ Igor Nikitenko StashMyComics.com webmaster@stashmycomics.com |
| AvengersFan223 | Posted: Sep 6 2011 | IP Logged |
| Senior Member Joined: 28 January 2011 | nisav wrotethis is a project for after the redesign,
so still a bit away. this would be a way to help you determine the comics condition, so then you can properly select it in the condition field. we are not starting our own grading thing like cgc/pgx. Redesigning the site? |
| AvengersFan223 | Posted: Sep 6 2011 | IP Logged |
| Senior Member Joined: 28 January 2011 | JasonNewcomb wroteAvengersFan223 wrotenisav wrotethis is a project for after the
redesign, so still a bit away. this would be a way to help you determine the comics condition, so then you can properly select it in the condition field. we are not starting our own grading thing like cgc/pgx. Redesigning the site? 
yea...wow  |
| nisav | Posted: Jun 20 2012 | IP Logged |
| Admin Group Joined: 01 March 2006 | thx for resurrecting this __________________ Igor Nikitenko StashMyComics.com webmaster@stashmycomics.com |
| Spooky Dragon | Posted: Mar 27 2013 | IP Logged |
| Moderator Group Joined: 01 December 2010 | FYI, There's an online site that does this.
http://www.e-bigs.net/freetool.php You might want to take a look at some of what they've done. I think its done well. |
| danimalxiii | Posted: Apr 28 2013 | IP Logged |
Moderator Group SMC Admin Joined: 09 September 2012 | Spooky Dragon wroteFYI, There's an online site that does this.
http://www.e-bigs.net/freetool.php You might want to take a look at some of what they've done. I think its done well. That seems pretty cool. Here's the above link, clickable. __________________ Twit: @Danimalxiii |
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