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Tuesday, April 6th, 2021 2:31 PM

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Three existing keywords declined for not meeting guidelines

I had three keywords in three different submissions declined with the reason "Does not meet contribution guidelines", despite the fact they are existing keywords (and I realize a couple may be controversial but they do exist.)

First, in submission 210404-151050-738000, the keyword war was declined despite being attached to 88 titles.

Then, in submission 210404-011341-622000, the keyword n-word was declined despite being attached to 454 titles.

Then, in submission 210404-011341-622000, the keyword calling-someone-a-motherfucker was declined despite being attached to 58 titles.

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Hi Adrian -

 

I have now approved the Keyword addition for the first two submissions (210404-151050-738000 & 210404-011341-622000), these should be live on the site shortly.

 

However, for #210404-011341-622000, I didn't observe the "calling-someone-a-motherfucker " keyword within this submission, did you submit this keyword separately?

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Then, in submission 210404-011341-622000, the keyword n-word was declined despite being attached to 454 titles.

What does this keyword refer to? Does it refer to someone saying "(the) n-word" or does it refer to someone saying "nigger"? Or both? Does anyone know how a customer could/should know this?

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I would assume it's the use of the actual word that is not really used now.

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I think it refers ambiguously to both, and most of the time it would indeed constitute the colloquial word "nigger", not abbreviated/bowdlerized as "n-word". I expressed my view before there should be keywords that provide some context of the usage within the movie, as to whether characters are referring to themselves with it, referring to other characters with it, or uttering the word more generally. I would like assurances that nobody would mistakenly think to apply the "n-word" keyword to a title page for a movie that does not bear any utterance of "nigger" or "n-word", but simply has a performer/character of Black descent present within the movie, and certainly I see that being more of a problem if the keyword was formed from the actual word rather than the abbreviation, but either way, in this day and age, only trolls and bigots (or otherwise children benignly unaware of non-colloquial ways to refer to Black folks) would make that mistake.