misterdc's profile

17 Messages

 • 

356 Points

Sunday, January 15th, 2023 6:34 PM

No Status

0

Submission deletion/replacements

In submitting several new titles I ran into the situation where I submitting a title/item only to realize afterwards that it was erroneous. I would then send a replacement submission with the correct information and delete the old pending submission. Your system said:

"ReasonDuplicate

Your contribution has been declined.

The item you have submitted is exactly the same as a submission that you or another user have already entered, which is still pending review by our staff."

Seems to me IMDB could save itself a lot of time and instead of just declining -- REPLACING. The system sees the fact it's a duplicate. Implementing that would mean cutting down on time and wasted effort on the part of the staff.

Two examples:

I submitted a new title- #230113-213835-228000

All accepted except one credit for some weird reason.

I resubmitted that one credit only I couldn't upload evidence as Safari glitches with the tool - #230114-200506-533000

Then seeing it was only safari and that Chrome would work, I resubmitted with evidence uploaded but it got rejected because the previous one is still pending. #230114-213747-662000

Time wasted it seems to me. I should be able to tell it to replace old pending submission.

Example 2:

When I thought what I'm suggesting was actually how deleting submissions worked, I resubmitted a title with some corrected info. #230114-213546-456000 

Then I deleted old one. This created a duplicate in IMDB as one of the corrections was in the title. #230114-041912-478000

Now time is being used up by a third submission to delete the duplicate entry. #230115-100716-440000

It would have saved the staff time if I could manually delete the duplicate submission myself.

Just an idea for whomever handles suggestions. And if you wanna give my two submissions some extra oomph, that'd be greatly appreciated.

Regardless, you guys rock and I thank you for all your help!

Employee

 • 

5.3K Messages

 • 

55.5K Points

2 years ago

Hi @misterdc -

I will turn this post into an idea for our users to vote on it. Also, specifically which submissions did you need some help with?

Cheers!

17 Messages

 • 

356 Points

2 years ago

Thanks for offering! If this could be looked at: #230114-200506-533000

(I also was able to upload evidence to IMDB on later submission using Chrome, but that submission is declined as this one is still pending  - but it has links to evidence outside of IMDB)

And this one: #230115-100716-440000

Thank you!

Employee

 • 

5.3K Messages

 • 

55.5K Points

@misterdc​ Both approved.

Cheers!

17 Messages

 • 

356 Points

@Bethanny​ Thank you! I assume it still takes awhile to go into effect as they both are still pending. I'll keep tabs.