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Tuesday, August 29th, 2023 10:34 PM

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I don't know who did it but somebody apparently has decided to pad their lines I"m not sure but somebody  decided to have fun and they have literally added  North America Northern Hemisphere  20th Century to almost every Gunsmoke episode. First off could you imagine putting North America for everything that takes place in North America but obviously it's a joke since they decided to put North Hemisphere also and 20th century which is actually even factually incorrect since the show takes place in the late 1800s. Hopefully a staff member can block whomever did it since obviously they were doing it to screw around. The 20th Century keyword tells me that they don't even know the show they were just doing it to pad lines. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0594490/keywords/?ref_=tttr_ql_stry_4 As an update it's obvious somebody is running a bot to add all these keywords to not only Gunsmoke but to other shows. You can see somebody massively padded their lines. They have actually added it to over 8129 tv episodes and only 32 movies so I don't know if they are doing it with a bot but they also did the same thing to every episode of Cheers, Family Guy, The View. They coupled it with North America 7515 times so somebody is doing something sneaky to television shows in the sake of padding lines or spamming the system I'm not sure. It's to the point they are actually adding it to Family Guy episodes that haven't even been released yet. They've done the same thing with a keyword southern-hemisphere also. Phil

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Hi @phillip, Thank you for your report. We do not currently have any guidelines on settings or locations for keywords and as such, the "north-america" and "northern-hemisphere" keywords are eligible additions. However, "20th-century" is in violation of our keywords guidelines as it likely refers to the release time-frame and not the plot time-frame. We will be taking steps to prevent the user from adding the ineligible keyword and remove them from any inapplicable titles. I hope this helps!