images vandalism

@Bethanny​ 

for example a title i haven't touched yet

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387915/mediaviewer/rm3571193857/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387915/mediaviewer/rm4259059713/

even dupes

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387915/mediaviewer/rm3420198913/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387915/mediaviewer/rm3269203969/

these look suspicious since they lack any markings 

and cursory googling do not show them (and you know how bothersome it's to extract the images from inside IMDB HTML code)

boxart

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387915/mediaviewer/rm3789297665/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387915/mediaviewer/rm1908465920/

duplicates

but the one without the light bleed was categorized as poster instead of boxart

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0387915/mediaindex?refine=poster&ref_=tt_mv_close

lurking on auctions reveals that there is an actual poster in existence

https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g1026408491

and there are a lot of titles

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls511724123/

like, this one has 8 pictures in category "poster" 

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2051817/mediaindex?refine=poster&ref_=ttmi_ref_pos

one them is ether a boxart or imitation of the box art

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0411218/mediaindex?refine=poster&ref_=ttmi_ref_pos

or these "posters"

@Bethanny​ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0260785/

check the primary image history on this one, each time i switch to one of the existing posters it gets reverted to the artbook scan with logo tacked on

@Bethanny​ during today alone the primary images were switched multiple times around already. 

soooo any way i can become a mod?

@Bethanny​ why is it marked "solved" if nothing is solved? after that that same person switched them about a ten times more and now after the night all of them again are displaying fanarts instead of real posters

https://www.imdb.com/list/ls511724123/

@Michelle​ 

the question was not about individual pictures, but about contributors who repeatedly upload and change primary images. this time it's akumajo. several years ago i wrote here about a contributor constantly switching the 7 samurai poster to their own fanart

atm i dealt with some of the images and cleaned them up. the image you've linked is a fanart: NDS boxes are nearly square and horizontal. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417521 https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5451664/ these two are obviously fan made

aaaand while i'm writing this that person has returned and continues to upload their fanart and change primary images

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417520/mediaviewer/rm1043734017/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0417520/mediaviewer/rm859184641/

both of these were deleted a ten times already

so as i said, the main propblem is that someone intentionally made their own custom images by photoshopping concept art and relentlessly uploads them to imdb faster than i can delete them

@agof​ Hi!

Is this still an ongoing issue?
If so can you link the fake images below to check if I can track down the user adding them?

Cheers!

@Bethanny​ it was an issue again this autumn and i fixed it again and also tracked down several more official posters

@agof​ So you deleted them already? if so, do you happen to have the submission references for the deletions?

Thanks!

@Bethanny​ 

april, september and now in december 1

i've tracked down the sources of them all. some of them are copied from deviantart, some are made by adding a wrong logo to textless digital postcards, some a crops of boxart deleting the platform information. many are copied from some site aggregating such images made by many people for digital collection tracking

here are some examples

@Bethanny​ aaaaaaaaaaaaaaand here we go again

less than a month

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388695/mediaviewer/rm3250077441/

this image outright doesn't exist

there was no english language release and the font is wrong and the name is wrong

the only source is IMDB

https://www.google.com/search?tbs=sbi:AMhZZivth-RMtyYkfwfvJdfFvVw5Jc4t-tGMXhPLZ4ejoZxhp04aKYS-TCwbqgK1aqJBQjzJiREwze5i9sWLXBDQSdWYWWwtne-L6w3STVXhP83k4sIo_1je4DjGlivzz8leutHiGg5yPqgwyCGXtFV_112ihKu5hgtVf4Cg3D6W-q4dg3KZxvQto10sNC3HacFHK0wfK-paEyzUR9j4AWSNYDJWUKKnRJzWGmB5WyIe6_1t-SgKB7sYcr_18TF092wV5GvNsjPIdWaahoHDeYspQYSdyJfnrl2j4886uqQ3C5_11coCBoRXk8OicddSqC7RAWfvJbR2ImMeJgEqA59HCoqixF36PxOeyxQUXSTP4ZrXj6hVTKv7JEOQ

can't you add some note for moderators to not even accept images for these titles without body of proof? like there are protected pages in wikipedia if they are often vandalized

@agof​ Deleted! And note added.

Thanks!

@Bethanny​ you mean you've deleted only one image?

can't you see the user who uploaded it and check their other uploads and delete those?

at least the ones related to akumajo titles these are all definitely trolling

and it's very petty trolling too

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4507076/mediaviewer/rm1261641217/

here's official poster

and

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4507076/mediaviewer/rm530661121/

here's a lower res image with higher res logo in the wrong colours and with all trademarks deleted. this isn't a question of a picture but just a craving to upload fanart for the sake of fanart

@agof​ Both images linked have to be deleted? or 1 is real? didn't quite understand.
And as I have explained on previous occasions, I can't track the user because they come from different users.

Thanks!

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4507076/mediaviewer/rm530661121/

this one for deletion

@agof​ To be completely honest there is not much noticeable difference between the 2 images, that is the reason why even with the note for our editors they are still being accepted, unless you are a fan I would think both images come from the same source. I can't track the user uploading them either because they are all coming from different sources.

do these sources contribute anything useful to the database otherwise? or each account is created to upload one same image?

it's a coordinated bot farm because 10 minutes ago i returned the real images and poof all of them are fanart againt. how several unrelated users can do that? there isn't even a wikipedia style watchlist

if it's a bot farm, why not ban the whole farm? do their IP match? if it's a single point source, leading directly to one owner, then why not ban the IP

@Bethanny​ well if there is a note, there has to be a proper reason for changing a primary image. if they look similar then why accept the change at all?

this is a year long issue, so repeated vandalism is expected

@Bethanny​ https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0388695/mediaviewer/rm1451900673/?ref_=tt_ov_i

even this one is back again

and since it's all the same pictures, why not ban anyone who uploads them who also doesn't have useful contributions?

if a troll does something useful with each new account that would be at least something, but if it's new accounts created just to upload fanart why not ban them?

@Bethanny​ if there was a note nobody read it. all exactly the same images were used