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Please reinstate easy deletion of keywords that contain main-genre suffixes (e.g. vietnam-war, environmental-crime, interspecies-romance)
I decided to create a new post on this issue, to make sure IMDb will see it.
Fairly recently, and simultaneous with IMDb's decision to allow specific subgenres as keywords, IMDb also set up "flags"* within its system that makes it extremely difficult to delete any keyword that happens to contain a main genre as a suffix. Some examples are "hollywood-entertainment-news," "teenage-romance," "framed-for-crime," "exiled-royal-family," "avengers-infinity-war," "environmental-crime," "space-western," "culture-war," "tug-of-war," "vietnam-war," "interracial-romance," "danish-royal-family," etc. Any keyword that ends in a hyphen and a main genre (e.g., "-war," "-crime," "-romance," "-drama," "-western," "-family," etc.) is covered, even if the keyword is not on the list of "accepted" subgenre keywords.
As a result of this recent policy change, keyword approvals of such deletions are no longer automatic, but instead are routed to a human and/or rejected by an algorithm or bot. Most of these deletions are not approved. This makes it very difficult to delete irrelevant keywords, which is discouraging and counterproductive.
As just one example of the effects of this policy change, the recently released title Aylan Baby (2022), which was spammed (probably by the film's creators) with hundreds of irrelevant keywords, cannot be edited any further to remove dozens of irrelevant keywords that remain. These include irrelevant keywords like "police-procedural-crime," "interspecies-romance," "vietnam-war," "space-war," "galactic-war," and a bunch of other keywords that were part of the massive wave of spam keywords that was applied to this title.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10449310/keywords
IMDb staff should remove this overly broad flag, which obstructs deletion of any keyword that happens to include a main-genre suffix.
I could understand if IMDb wanted to have a more narrowly tailored flag, for example a flag limited to the exact list of "accepted" subgenre keywords. Even that narrower solution would be unnecessary--particularly in the long run--but it would be far preferable to the current arrangement.
* I'm not sure if "flag" is the correct word, but that's what I'm calling it.
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Michelle
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2 years ago
Hi keyword_expert -
I reviewed the keywords for "Aylan Baby" and can confirm that even though these keywords may have a partial genre text, they can still be reported for removal through the Contribution Form.
Is the issue at hand that you are submitting deletion requests for these keywords and your updates are being declined?
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Peter_pbn
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2 years ago
I have deleted the keywords danish-fantasy and danish-horror today without trouble.
I don't share a complaint over data not being deleted automatically. In general, the more checking the better. It's a different story if data can't be edited at all.
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gromit82
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2 years ago
This is strange. I would have thought that IMDb would be more likely to flag keywords which contain genres and restrict them from being added (even if some of those keywords are appropriate for some films) -- as opposed to restricting them from being deleted.
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bradley_kent
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A "bad" keyword that includes two genres is supposedly banned, although they keep reappearing, and IMDb, for some unknown reason, keeps accepting them --- all against IMDb guidelines!
In other words, if the prefix AND the suffix are both genres, that should not be an acceptable keyword. This duplicates information already available in a title's list of genres,
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adrian
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Why would you want to delete keywords like "vietnam-war"? This makes zero sense to me. Just because war is a genre, having keywords for various wars seems useful to me.
And "tug-of-war" has nothing to do with war and is a specific activity? Why wouldn't you want to know which titles feature a tug of war?
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