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Episode spammer

​I noticed someone is spamming episodes to different series pages. Judging from tconst numbers it should be fairly recent. Can you stop the user before the damage becomes too much?​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1534360/episodes?season=1​

​1.34 to 1.203 should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5133998/episodes/?season=1​
​1.36 to 1.244 should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12844722/episodes/​

​1.46 to 1.149 should be deleted​

​I'm sure there are more affected pages. I find a new affected page after looking for a while. Can you find all affected pages and clean them?​

​Also, I was going to try to submit a title deletion for some of them myself, but the Title Delete option was not active. Recently added episodes with no release date and zero info cannot be submitted for deletion? How does this makes sense?​

​EDIT to add more:​
​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8478162/episodes/​
​1.52 to 1.161 should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13322702/episodes?season=1​
​1.22 to 1.93​ should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12879200/episodes?season=1​
​1.32 to 1.78​ should be deleted​
​2.30 to 2.40​ should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9721776/episodes?season=1​
​1.13 to 1.87​ should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6462806/episodes?season=1​
​1.17 to 1.298​ should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0905574/episodes?season=1​
​1.30 to 1.90​ should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7978230/episodes?season=1​
​1.36 to 1.100​ should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6132758/episodes/​
​1.34 to 1.85​ should be deleted​

​https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286677/episodes/?season=1​
​1.39 to 1.168​ should be deleted​

​it doesn't end...​

​I'm sure more can be found, but I don't want to list any more to avoid making this post too long and being overlooked. Why it's so easy to spam nonsense like this? It seems damage already became too much.​

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Hi @mbmb -

This cleanup is already in progress.

Thanks!

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@Bethanny​ OK, this is more acceptable answer. I opened this again because two things frustrated me so much, you asking me for evidence for something like this, and marking it "Solved" when there is nothing solved.

There are more pages I didn't post here to not make the post too long and I'm sure I can't find all affected pages because only staff can trace someone's contribs. Staff help is needed here to find all affected pages.

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@mbmb​ As mentioned in my previous reply, research is to be done and actions will be taken :) nothing to worry about

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@Bethanny​ I feel this probably means even one year later everything will stay same and it will still be "being investigated", you could at least start deleting the episode ranges I took my time to write and link above.

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@Bethanny​ I just wanted to clarify something because re-reading your replies in the previous thread (asking for evidence and saying "you will research -the series-") made me think that you may have only clicked on the first link and didn't continue and assumed that only one series was being reported. If that's the case, I want to clarify that all of these links I posted are for a different series. I'm not reporting just "one series" here, I'm reporting a spamming across dozens of series.

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@mbmb​ No worries, it was very clear it is all of the series reported.

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@Bethanny​ OK thanks, if you post a list of series pages here I can help by checking all of them and telling you which pages are spammed and episode ranges to delete to make it easier for you.

What I didn't want to do was to try to "convince" you if there is really something wrong or a spamming here. Because this does not need any convincing. It's self-evident, you don't need to be "convinced" to see the problem here. That was my issue in the previous thread. Otherwise, I can help identify spammed pages if you post a list.

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@mbmb​ It is a regular procedure to ask for supporting links to any of our users, it helps us with the research that has to be done in every case, specially with big cleanups, even with our good and known users like you, so nothing personal.

The series with contributed episodes from this user other than the ones on the list are as follows:

"Dogdugun Ev Kaderindir" (2019) 

"Kalp Yarasi" (2021) 

"Ariza" (2020) 

"Baht Oyunu" (2021)
"Menajerimi Ara" (2020) 
"Leke" (2019) 
"Marasli" (2021)
"Kadin" (2017) 
"Kimse Bilmez" (2019)
"Babil" (2020)
"Ask Yeniden" (2015) 
"Sila" (2006)
"Cennet'in Gözyaslari" (2017) 
"Bir Ask Hikayesi" (2013) 
"Vuslat" (2019)
"Bana Sevmeyi Anlat" (2016) 
"Deli Gönül" (2017) 
"Decora" (2011) 
"Ouro Verde" (2017) 
Thanks for taking a look.
Cheers!

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@Bethanny​ Thank you, I checked them all, listing the episode ranges below, some of them were the ones I didn't post in first post to not make the post too long. I see almost everything from my first post was cleaned. Thank you so much for not letting this linger for months. You are awesome. I'm sorry if I overreacted.

For me there was just no point in trying to prove each one by one when the problem was obvious.

There was no point to post links from the first page of a simple Google search which you can find yourself too, like TraktTv or Justwatch links another user posted and you found useful. All of these posted links are getting their data from TMDB, a user contributed site (with no reviewing process), anything edited or posted there gets live instantly. There is no point in providing you another user contributed site as evidence when your own site already has the same information listed, which you could see by looking at episodes list disregarding newly added release dateless episodes.

I could add for example 500 episodes to TMDB yesterday and you could see 500 episodes listed on these posted links which gets their data from TMDB. They would most likely clean it all after a while but it would stay there and on other sites who fetch data from them for a while. I mean no point in posting links like these to prove it to you, when IMDb already has same data listed properly.

I could of course find official site links, archive links etc. for each and that's a waste of time which could be used to find all affected pages and episodes instead.

Anyway thank you for all the help (and sorry again for any overreaction), here is the list, please be sure I double checked everything here:

This is from my first post, I see season 1 cleaned but season 2 is missed: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12879200/episodes?season=2

2.30 to 2.40

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"Dogdugun Ev Kaderindir" (2019)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11100380/episodes/?season=2
2.32 to 2.99
3.68 (there is no third season)
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"Kalp Yarasi" (2021)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14404174/episodes/
1.33 to 1.107
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"Ariza" (2020)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12735946/episodes/
1.31 to 1.101
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"Baht Oyunu" (2021)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14411816/episodes/
1.18 to 1.56
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"Menajerimi Ara" (2020)
This is the 3rd series in my first post
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"Leke" (2019)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10147676/episodes/
1.10 to 1.30
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"Marasli" (2021)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12694140/episodes/
1.27 to 1.74
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"Kadin" (2017)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7661932/episodes?season=1
1.33 to 1.90
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"Kimse Bilmez" (2019)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10377430/episodes/
1.28 to 1.81
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"Babil" (2020)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11138216/episodes/?season=1
1.11 to 1.31
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"Ask Yeniden" (2015)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5616644/episodes?season=1
1.20 to 1.47

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5616644/episodes?season=2
2.42 to 2.123

There is also a need for an episode merge on this series, I made a submission for that: 230316-225015-276000
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"Sila" (2006)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0875103/episodes?season=1
1.39 to 1.158
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"Cennet'in Gözyaslari" (2017)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7748356/episodes/
1.37 to 1.115
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"Bir Ask Hikayesi" (2013)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2972020/episodes/
1.37 to 1.85
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"Vuslat" (2019)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9520396/episodes?season=1
1.21 to 1.67

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9520396/episodes?season=2
2.25 to 2.82
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"Bana Sevmeyi Anlat" (2016)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5988466/episodes/
1.23 to 1.91
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"Deli Gönül" (2017)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7107142/episodes/
1.11 to 1.33

There is also a need for an episode merge on this series, I made a submission for that: 230316-225031-090000
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I don't have any info on these last two Portuguese series but for "Ouro Verde" I checked its original network site here and final episode seems to be 3 Oct 2017 dated 221st episode: https://tviplayer.iol.pt/programa/ouro-verde/580ddfd80cf2e48931e73e83/episodio/t1e221

That means recently added episodes are incorrect, so episodes to delete are:


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6183736/episodes/
1.222 to 1.241

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For "Decora" (2011) I checked it from Brazil streaming service Globoplay but they only have season 7 onwards, however I couldn't spot any error. This can stay as is.

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There is also this one I found not on your list because apparently it's not from same user: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3142876/episodes/

1.31 to 1.72 here should be deleted. I see these were added in 2017, this could be a honest unintended mistake of someone else, or it could be an earlier account. I don't know, I'll leave the judgement to you.

Since these are not new additions, here is the proof for this, from official original network site: https://www.kanald.com.tr/calikusu/bolum

Thank you so much again.

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@mbmb​ All cleaned up. Last one does seam like a honest mistake.

Cheers!

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@Bethanny​ Thanks a lot for solving this, that's great.

I'm not sure if it's still being processed but I see two remaining episodes each on these pages:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6183736/episodes/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11100380/episodes/?season=2

other than that, it looks all good. Thanks again.

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@mbmb​ Looks like they escaped from me lol all deleted now!

Cheers!

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@Bethanny this spammer is back (and I'm not surprised, I would be surprised if the steps really worked). Can you stop this before he spams so many titles?

all recently added episodes without a release date should be deleted:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1534360/episodes/?season=1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12879200/episodes?season=1
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12879200/episodes?season=2

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7978230/episodes?season=1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1286677/episodes?season=1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7661932/episodes?season=1

all recently added episodes with only a year should be deleted:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11598800/episodes/ (1.40 to end)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7748356/episodes/ (1.37 to end)

I can't spend so much time to check more titles but there are certainly more, it would be best if you just delete all of the episodes added by the account.

EDIT: Of course there are more:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12979628/episodes?season=1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9721776/episodes/?season=1

EDIT 2: Of course there are more:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12453442/episodes/

EDIT 3: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11896074/episodes/ (the ones with only a year)

It's incredibly easy to break things on this site...

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