Removal of duplicate posters for Cheers (1982)

I noticed the effect of this after adding an image to an episode and I have to say this doesn't make sense at all.

When images are added to episode titles they will no longer be automatically tagged to the Parent-series title page

Doesn't that make the photo gallery for series pages useless now? I think it does. Images added to episodes do not appear in the photo gallery of the series now and I think this is wrong and would cause more problems.

Now someone needs to browse all episodes one by one to be able to discover images added to a series. And this doesn't look correct and it eliminates the purpose of photo gallery. When someone uploaded an image, they need to go to the episode page after it's uploaded and tag it to main series if they want it to appear in parent series page now I guess? But this doesn't make sense and nobody would do that, why suddenly all of this hassle?

And I think it would cause more duplicate uploads, because people may upload something again after seeing it did not appear in series page and they think something went wrong with upload or it was not approved. (I certainly thought something went wrong with my upload after I uploaded my first image after this change)

I don't think anything was wrong with auto-tagging them to both episode and parent series page. I don't see any good reason for this change other than to allow uploading same poster to all episodes of a series or season. But why allow something that is basically a spamming anyway? Why should the same image or poster uploaded to all episodes anyway? And make a change like this with bad effects that reduces the usefulness of photo gallery for series to allow that?

I had the understanding such duplicate uploads were not allowed, a poster that is generic (for the whole series or a season) should be uploaded once to parent series page, shouldn't be spammed to all episodes, an image should be added to an episode if it's specifically for that episode, that was the norm (which totally made sense), I don't think uploading same image to every episode was the norm, there is even a rule in guidelines in line with that: https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/images-videos/image-guidelines/G27LPBQZA7EAZGJW

"Please do not tag series or season posters with individual episodes"

But now, images added to episodes are getting excluded from series pages to allow basically a spamming? I think instead clear warnings should be put to guidelines and image upload forms to say don't do that, and images should be tagged to parent series pages automatically again.

Because I feel this reduces the usefulness of photo galleries for series pages so much.

I also noticed a bug I think surfaced after this recent change. If an episode does not have any images, it seems primary poster of series is shown in the episode page now, which looks like a good update, and it would probably reduce people who try to upload same poster to every episode, so I liked this change. But there is a bug. If you click on that "placeholder" image, it gives 404 error. See, try here as an example: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18268644/

@Michelle​ "When images are added to episode titles they will no longer be automatically tagged to the Parent-series title page. "

I think that's the wrong solution. Every image added to an episode should automatically be tagged to the parent-series title page. After all, if an image is an image of a particular episode of a series, it is also automatically an image of that series. The problem in my OP was that there were dozens of duplicated images added to a particular title in the database. That problem isn't solved when people can add duplicated images to particular episodes that don't get tagged to the parent series. Au contraire, it would make it harder to spot the fact that duplicated images have been added because there is no parent-series image gallery to show this in a glance.

I have to admit that I should've seen/realized this after @Col_Needham 's post below.

Hi @mbmb​ -

Thanks for reporting this new bug.  I have alerted the appropriate team to investigate further and fix.

@Mitchel​ (and @Marco) Thanks for the feedback, but if an image is appropriate to be included in the gallery for the main series, the main series can be tagged at image submission time -- you just need to click the "+ Add titles" link in the "Related Titles" section.  No need to wait for the image to be approved. 

People commenting here after the change have missed the point on the bug fix, sorry -- previously every episode image upload was silently tagged the parent series. Silently tagged.  Even if the image was a spoiler for the twist-ending of the last ever episode of a show, it would automatically be added to the series gallery.  All we fixed was putting the control of which titles are appropriate back in the control of the contributor at contribution time. 

There are many more cases than just Cheers and just posters where it does not make sense for every image attached to every episode to also appear in the main series gallery (spoilers being a big issue, but not the only one).  We do not do this with, for example, quotes attached at the episode level being mirrored to the series page, so why should images be any different? If there's a use-case for a gallery (or any other content type) from every episode to be easily available via the series page then we should support that in the IMDb software, not by automatically double-tagging everything.  We already do this for cast & crew data because there's a good reason; it sounds like we need a new Idea thread posted here on Sprinklr for the same feature to be available for images? 

Hope this helps. 

@Col_Needham​ Could it be reversed, so that the option to REMOVE the "main series" tag is there, rather than having to add it each time? A reverse of the default?

This said, I am getting slowly used to it.

Also, is there any way to change the attribute of an image? There's one I uploaded for a series and accidentally clicked "publicity". It's not a big deal, but it shows in a different gallery as a result, it should have been "still image".

@MovieCat​ 

See "How do I fix the 'type' of an image?" in IMDb Image FAQs

@Col_Needham​ 

All we fixed was putting the control of which titles are appropriate back in the control of the contributor at contribution time.

Most contributors probably didn't notice that they would have to do anything different.

You could mention the issue in the help files.

We already do this for cast & crew data because there's a good reason; it sounds like we need a new Idea thread posted here on Sprinklr for the same feature to be available for images? 

From a user perspective, this is what existed. That the technical method was different was not strange as they are different types of content, and the concept of tags only exists for images.

We do not do this with, for example, quotes attached at the episode level being mirrored to the series page

You probably should do something like that rather than leave series quotes pages blank.