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Make short genre mandatory according to runtime
According to IMDb rules, any movie with a runtime of 44 minutes or less is a short film. However, the only way to have a title identified as a short film is by adding the short genre in the genre film, otherwise, the title will appear as a feature despite its runtime.
Over the last months I have added the short genre to hundred of titles that were missing it and that are reported to be 44 minutes or less, even dozens of 1 minute long titles appear as feature films, because they are missing the short genre. While I have managed to reduce this list a lot, whenever I leave the work for a few days, the list grows again with new titles not correctly categorized. the current titles in this situaiton are here: http://www.imdb.com/search/title?runtime=1,44&title_type=feature
My suggestion is to improve the updating section, by adding a lock that avoids to add a new title with a runtime of 44 minutes or less without the short genre (unless it is tv of course)
This happens for example in various genres, where you get an useful reminder. For example the film-noir asks you ot to add title outside certain year range, the documentary genre reminds you to only use it in full documentaries and the adult genre reminds you to add some mandatory keywords.
In this same way, the updating for should tell you: you are adding a runtime of less than 44 minutes, if this is true then you need to add the short genre to this title ̈ or something like
Pencho15
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And by the way, the same should be done the other way round. Not allowing to add the short genre if the title is 45 minutes or longer. There are currently over 700 titles registered as shorts even if they have feature film runtimes http://www.imdb.com/search/title?runtime=45,999999&title_type=short
It is not possible to know if they are indeed feature film mistakenly labelled as shorts, or if they are short film with typos made when adding the runtime. A warning message showing the contradiction would avoid both common mistakes. In the case of short feature films new mistaken titles have been added this week at a longer rate that I can corect them, and thus the number is increasing despite my best efforts.
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dan_dassow
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I just noticed your suggestion and clicked the like button. What you suggest seems like a sensible solution to having short films incorrectly classified as featured films.
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Siren
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Just to necro this old post, sorry. Doing it because when you type in "genre short" it comes up as the first result.
To be clear. The reason some people dislike the "short" genre is because it puts an ugly additive next to your title.
This is my title (short)
This is another title (short)
This is what it looks like title (short)
Having a repeating word throughout the page is 1. bad for ranking the IMDB page in google, as the word is overused and google thinks the page is spam if words repeat too often from what I understand. 2. It looks unprofessional.
If the genre was added like any other it would be fine but it changes the aesthetics of your page.
I get some people don't care, but if you want a professional looking page then you don't want big ugly phrases next to your film titles.
This is a title (action)
This is a title (romance)
This is a title (thriller)
This is a title (adult)
This is a title (short)
If the page looked like that above, maybe nobody would care. But it doesn't. Short is one of the few words actually added next to your title.
Ie, professional films are sleek without ugly additive words added next to it. For some users if there is an added word next to a title like video or short, it can imply to some that the film is of a lower quality because it needs a disclaimer saying that there is something wrong with it. A filmographer might not think so, a solid fan might not, but an average person may be under that illusion. Especially a female, as women are more known to choose things based off aesthetics. Which is why google so heavily deranks you for doing certain things: like using too many words in a sentence. As it knows users can be heavily affected by length and type of word.
More uploaders would likely want their content listed as a "short" if it didn't actually edit the title adding to the usability of the website.
This is my film title.
This is my film title short = this is not my film title. If i wanted the word "short" in my titles I would manually have added it.
My film is about short people (short).
I have no idea why adult films do not have (adult) next to them but (short) does. Adult is not included because it would be discriminatory, and so is short. The length is listed on the main page as soon as you click on the video. So there is no need to have it listed on the title itself.
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