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Plot spelling/grammar/syntax corrections repeatedly being rejected for nonsense reasons
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0093371
The plot outline has misspellings and is ungrammatical:
Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her fourties, get absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14 years old boy.
With my corrections:
Mary-Jane, a lonely mother in her forties, gets absorbed in a sentimental affair with a 14-year-old boy.
My reasoning (in the comments):
I'm correcting the spelling (40 is spelled without a U), grammar (verb conjugation tense has an S on "get"), and grammar (with punctuation) (single word adjective "14-year-old" preceding noun, not 3 words; see the article "a"?)
My submission has been rejected 5 times, and I elaborate in the comments more each time, but it doesn't help. The rejections are for ridiculous reasons:
"Does not meet contribution guidelines". It does NOT meet your contribution guidelines if the plot outline was unfortunately written by an illiterate (at least in English), so I'm fixing it.
My submissions for this rejection:
211016-175530-451000
211011-171231-507000
211010-214047-868000
211004-062955-903000
Some of my comments are merely "spelling/grammar/punctuation", others I get elaborately angry (probably at an uncaring computer).
"Factually incorrect". My corrections ARE factually correct, because I am not illiterate.
A previous submission with this rejection:
211009-155104-087000
My comment was simple: "Fixed spelling, grammar, punctuation."
What's the deal with your editors? Or is it your computer system that's rejecting these? They are rejected quite quickly, within a few hours (maybe minutes?), which seems suspiciously like a computer doing it.
My spelling, grammar, capitalization, punctuation, and syntax corrections to plot SUMMARIES get approved fine.
Here's an example of another title's plot outline with more elaborate changes, that was rejected for "Does not meet contribution guidelines":
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0119879
A psychotic criminal couple kidnaps a random teenage couple. The woman rapes the male captive, and lets him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan to sacrifice the couple.
My changes:
The true story of a Mexican sex torture cannibal voodoo cult. A psychotic couple abducts a random teenage couple visiting Mexico. She rapes the male captive, letting him watch his lover being raped by the man. They then plan the sacrifice.
Nothing majorly wrong with this anonymous contributor's plot outline. Mostly syntax and repetition problems. I removed a redundancy in the first sentence and chose a more apt verb and even appended an additional description. I changed an article-noun into a pronoun in the second sentence and removed the conjuction modifying the verb (better syntax for both changes). I made the third sentence more concise and less redundant (the word "couple" occurs too many times in the outline). I then add an introductory sentence at the beginning. Some of my changes necessarily shortened the sentences to fit the 239 character limit for plot outlines, since I was also adding a sentence and a phrase.
This was also rejected in a few hours, perhaps less than an hour, I didn't monitor it that closely, again leading me to believe that a computer is rejecting it.
My submission for this one: 211016-175247-290000.





Peter_pbn
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5 years ago
Regarding the latter edit, when I enter your text in the form I get this warning:
So the form tells you one reason why it may be rejected.
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Rida
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5 years ago
Thanks for flagging this.
I can confirm that the first plot outline update has now been applied.
Regarding the second update, please refrain from using words like 'this movie, this story etc.' This is already mentioned in our guide here
Thanks for your understanding.
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