Removal of duplicate posters for Cheers (1982)

@Col_Needham​ Thanks for the swift response and the explanation.

@Col_Needham​ 

Any image from an episode is also an image from the series, isn't it?

It is practical to be able to go to a series gallery and find all images from the series.

@Michelle Is there any scheduled fix date for the image issue at all, please?

I've just added a few images to a show that only had its title logo - there are now six images, but the main page show as 1 image.

@MovieCat​ 

Can't you add the series title tags manually?

@Peter_pbn​ Probably, but it used to be automatic, and there's over a 100 now. (I'm addicted)

@MovieCat​ I don't think they see it as an issue (Michelle's "I have alerted the appropriate team to investigate further and fix." response was likely for only the 404 bug, which is fixed now)

Nobody liked this change, even Marco who opened this thread, it would be nice to get a response about it, if they will revert it or not.

Hi!

Thanks to all 3 for your feedback regarding the change that occurred. We have now shared the comments regarding the recent changes with the appropriate team for visibility. 

Cheers!

@Bethanny​ Any word on this? I think this is a very bad change and it's because of this thread of mine this policy change was made, so I'd really appreciate it if it'd be changed back.

@Marco 😀

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Fri Dec 2 2022 

Cheers (1982–1993)
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https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0083399/mediaindex

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@Marco​ As previously mentioned I passed on the comments, but at the moment no change has been decided.

@Bethanny​ Any word on this? With every day that this policy isn't reverted, the number of photos not attached to a series main page grows, which means the number of duplicated photos in the database very probably grows and the customers of IMDb can't find all the photos IMDb has to offer. I think that the default should be that a photo for an episode of a series is automatically also attached to the main series with the option for the contributor to NOT add it here.

@Marco​ I agree. Sometimes I have spend time tagging episode images to the main series, a time consumig task that never needed to be done before, and that will forever be insufficient to cover the missing tags caused with this new, not popular and not useful policy.

@Bethanny @Col_Needham No news? every day that passes more and more images are missing from their series main gallery making it impossible to find all relevant images that you may be looking for, specially in new titles.

It is no practical to search for images of one actor in a series and having to review all episodes to find them.

@Pencho15​ 

Col replied about it here:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/removal-of-duplicates-posters-for-several-shows/643c5948a877c66d546e7b1c

@Peter_pbn​ Good to know, however it is sad that all improvements depend on moving to the new design, which I actively dislike :(

I'm afraid it's because of this: https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/removal-of-duplicate-posters-for-cheers-1982/62c1ffd6f938966a23bd5098