With one exception, the only edits I have made (or at least, recall making, or tried to make) to the database have been to indicate susceptibility (as observed in my garden), and I don't make such edits unless such susceptibility is pretty clear, roughly comparable to cultivars having a database rust score of 2.9 or worse. (I have a 2.9 benchmark plant here, as well as other plants which, had they been part of a survey, I suspect would have scored worse.) If a plant gets a light and limited case of rust, I won't report it as "shows susceptiblity", because in this everything-is-relative world (where no daylily has immunity), such plants are probably "resistant".
The one exception involved a well known cultivar which I grow, and which per the database has a resistance score (derived from surveys) of 1.1, indicating excellent resistance. This cultivar has shown resistance in my garden, under fairly heavy rust exposure, where everything else around it got rust. Someone edited the entry to indicate "shows susceptibility", because in their garden the cultivar is susceptible. That was a surprise to me, but this may have been a case of resistance to some strains, susceptibility to others (they may have had a different strain of rust circulating in their garden).
Apart from that one instance (where "shows susceptibility" clearly seemed in conflict with the rust score of 1.1, apart from my personal experience of the cultivar), I don't edit the database to indicate "shows resistance". Even ignoring the "different strains" issue, resistance is something that can sometimes be hard to pin down (at least in our climate), whereas an obviously good case of rust (raised golden orange pustules in abundance, etc.) is undeniable. Microclimate can also play a part as to whether a plant "seems" resistant or not. For years, I thought one particular (potted) cultivar was resistant, but last fall (after it had been planted out near a rust bucket) it got a good case of rust. Another daylily, formerly grown in a pot without rust, got rust last summer after it was transplanted into the ground (and was subject to irrigation spray). (I have yet to submit edits for those two plants, as I wish to get a better sense of how susceptible they are... again, there is that issue of where the dividing line is between "shows resistance" and "shows susceptibility".)
