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Wednesday, February 2nd, 2022 11:33 AM

Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for January 2022

Top 300 Contributor Leaderboard for January 2022

Hi all!

 

Welcome to the first monthly top contributor leaderboard of 2022. The below is the top 300 by approved items submitted throughout January.

 

Come and join the discussion. We appreciate all of your feedback on the leaderboard experience.

 

 

rank nick total
1 Nomissimon10 818,412
2 SkipEastport 510,298
3 matthias_metzger 439,199
4 inespape-1 237,715
5 arshela 77,797
6 cinelamour 64,864
7 formulakaz 54,819
8 apostolis1989 52,020
9 BonaFideBOSS 40,972
10 RitaAbbas 40,585
11 Zalhera 33,888
12 raympretorius 33,354
13 markotovarovic 31,233
14 Woodyanders 27,339
15 harrisonjiang-78175 26,762
16 11433Sthlm 22,843
17 tahagumustg 21,395
18 ahmetkozan 19,456
19 dscbulkmail-amazon 19,128
20 Mark_a_Wood 19,116
21 pegg1976 18,542
22 GusF 16,537
23 Stevarooni 16,483
24 KaramXXV 16,359
25 Invisible2015 15,296
26 ron_whisky 14,623
27 ind3 13,858
28 Huggo 13,601
29 philipfhayes 13,538
30 sundevilemily 13,507
31 winsfordtown 13,183
32 xylit333 12,757
33 vorachotes 12,723
34 Lara_Cain 12,659
35 madhuc 12,503
36 Happy_Evil_Dude 12,373
37 shatterdaymorn 12,183
38 denny-27 12,122
39 scharlachred 12,101
40 Holojarg 11,910
41 capamaroux-1 11,778
42 elouie2000 11,400
43 lecoinducinephage 11,338
44 hendersonave 11,021
45 PierreLeewes-2 10,726
46 Blaine1942 10,662
47 brijeshmuliya 10,622
48 bmlpsn 10,553
49 kashyapchandhock 10,529
50 Greg75 10,493
51 vondiesel-1 9,991
52 Ioana_St 9,912
53 martinchinwuba 9,794
54 nickromm 9,787
55 anmil-94087 9,490
56 chribren 9,440
57 jan_nihilation 8,907
58 danstarr69 8,623
59 migueloliveiramonteiro 8,513
60 vielguillaume 8,495
61 essmom 8,494
62 Valkyrslayer 8,297
63 lapantera 8,158
64 yook 8,155
65 jmgr-86592 8,088
66 NickRiganas 8,023
67 Kurre 7,855
68 trotter1954 7,824
69 geeked-out-4-movies 7,792
70 sarge-19 7,632
71 projectobjectvault 7,597
72 zoltanakos 7,564
73 solnoms 7,546
74 thebreadladyky 7,399
75 horn-5 7,326
76 zedmusic 7,154
77 mitchelvwijk 7,037
78 soma-2 6,934
79 bta98 6,698
80 tomdelfino 6,531
81 sl-15684 6,514
82 WillsonEP 6,478
83 calderde 6,373
84 abtheboss 6,347
85 SlyFan180 6,275
86 emiebocalbos-jp 6,245
87 scgary66 6,200
88 tmfraga 6,127
89 LargoDonWen 6,115
90 The_Movie_Cat 6,090
91 Rain85 5,876
92 omersarikaya69 5,741
93 ramanlamba-69224 5,533
94 Lenonn 5,482
95 Peter-Patrick76 5,455
96 Col Needham 5,424
97 vande 5,309
98 Sizzith 5,228
99 ctfabian 5,149
100 davefoss 4,999
101 slordoshoes 4,998
102 eknowlson 4,954
103 aapraje 4,898
104 Bronco46 4,879
105 Simba63 4,873
106 bbmtl-21883 4,757
107 over_the-world 4,724
108 jimjo1216 4,701
109 Perspicuity1 4,698
110 tillmany 4,675
111 Basse3 4,614
112 benourdog 4,586
113 snazzyleo-40564 4,576
114 archienojado 4,514
115 DmitryKantorov 4,472
116 farhanazhari05 4,450
117 skillwithaquill 4,439
118 mnmonteiro 4,438
119 VIS-MARKETING 4,420
120 Chip_douglas 4,387
121 lor_ 4,371
122 mariojacobs 4,366
123 akira625 4,315
124 LoginTo 4,273
125 fkevin-94651 4,253
126 seththetechwiz 4,237
127 ehren-50501 4,187
128 thomaswake16 4,048
129 FangsNL 3,947
130 severthor 3,900
131 christianfrates 3,866
132 sunilpsingh 3,813
133 johnnymoronic 3,805
134 J. Spurlin 3,774
135 JamesGaniere 3,709
136 tmariotoledo 3,647
137 mysteriousbluebox 3,641
138 Channing_F 3,639
139 brainybrailler 3,619
140 pizarron-00920 3,615
141 joeddelozier 3,572
142 robetsonian 3,547
143 ljdoncel 3,527
144 JohnBahn 3,524
145 fredcdobbs5 3,522
146 maldaregia 3,497
147 johannawallenius 3,494
148 greatgaza 3,491
149 thcarvalhobr 3,478
150 norbertcreutz 3,469
151 McBE92 3,443
152 Kalakarabhinav 3,411
153 diego_palacio 3,396
154 caissie27 3,392
155 anupmagar-00128 3,380
156 amickbyron 3,369
157 martinu-2 3,356
158 ryancharlton-03170 3,349
159 Jukka_A 3,348
160 allarago 3,344
161 bombersflyup 3,340
162 sfeder-89344 3,323
163 michaelfool 3,312
164 ccf7913 3,297
165 jmosen 3,294
166 jonnytriviani 3,270
167 PierreS 3,259
168 dj-dom 3,258
169 ivyshayepeek 3,149
170 r-45435 3,147
171 rnahigian 3,147
172 celinam-ferreira 3,145
173 SteveResin 3,138
174 PJ66MR 3,116
175 teeisnothere 3,062
176 Velaska_official 3,055
177 sunilchaurasiyaa 3,026
178 AhmedDaReviewer 3,006
179 blytheandferb-91172 2,997
180 christine-40347 2,952
181 ebrahimiexe 2,925
182 Sergey119 2,919
183 ford-29 2,886
184 MrIQ 2,878
185 mneu-22567 2,878
186 aninosc 2,863
187 The_Professor_Scary 2,841
188 anthony-42000 2,819
189 manzanamx1 2,815
190 jason-nadle 2,798
191 Mjollnir 2,764
192 info-67295 2,741
193 SchaiDog 2,694
194 rodriguezaidan-94613 2,683
195 ianlueck 2,662
196 trancer78 2,659
197 leadbeater 2,642
198 marty602 2,641
199 gal bela 2,623
200 Godslaye 2,596
201 mbjwilkins 2,571
202 niunoniotro 2,525
203 Sosna95 2,513
204 jostimor 2,508
205 jb71a 2,482
206 xrahspex 2,473
207 erikrodriguezc 2,470
208 tityron 2,469
209 katie-06084 2,462
210 livewirebryant-58232 2,456
211 hm-2021 2,440
212 TrTm316 2,427
213 linus2001 2,409
214 RoderichFM 2,394
215 suprabj0083 2,384
216 torvice 2,376
217 Travis_Bickle92 2,365
218 slownet2 2,327
219 tazjjh 2,319
220 kisstvintl 2,284
221 verokjon 2,283
222 izko-35160 2,277
223 PlocktonTurnPointt 2,265
224 cyberlina 2,241
225 jwelch-21319 2,231
226 Piedradura 2,229
227 editajitsingh-20789 2,208
228 ajitobra 2,188
229 marilyng-08110 2,172
230 agentjethro 2,114
231 renearanda 2,087
232 phoenixgrey-932-286405 2,072
233 edwardhewitt65 2,069
234 Jens Christian Skov 2,040
235 sametyavuzzz 2,029
236 natmata 2,027
237 kumkanta 2,009
238 coreylynnchrapuch 2,007
239 LukasGen 1,999
240 bigmoviefan1-1 1,987
241 calderdo 1,979
242 ayumihamasakifan 1,978
243 Muvienutt 1,966
244 Elwood_Blues 1,964
245 Fettzilla85 1,960
246 johanna-611-277369 1,950
247 nelliepants 1,943
248 Hurdy_Gurdy_Man 1,941
249 neindyfeiv 1,920
250 darshapg 1,915
251 GBrazier 1,900
252 benhampel 1,896
253 Leffaneuvos 1,895
254 Cracker05 1,894
255 mekmekb 1,893
256 brunorapone 1,889
257 glf-5 1,876
258 VinnieRattolle 1,875
259 Fangorn90 1,863
260 Ron 1,859
261 increativecompanylogin 1,855
262 a_chris80 1,849
263 hclark-76943 1,846
264 ElectricBeelsebub 1,839
265 oscar75 1,837
266 Marcusjt2004 1,830
267 garnmgu 1,775
268 EvanD71 1,761
269 girlygirl9983 1,761
270 porzel 1,754
271 Gabrielfox 1,750
272 CineasticusBorealis 1,739
273 rharlan58 1,724
274 irvinarroyo-51837 1,713
275 gollumsmeagolrocks 1,709
276 seanherbsrules 1,693
277 DickyBettsBass 1,690
278 cybertracker 1,678
279 marcial84 1,676
280 JJ_Hayden 1,664
281 egenardini 1,662
282 neilr64 1,657
283 ElefanteRallenta 1,654
284 jordan-paige-45516 1,647
285 glyntreharne-1 1,639
286 pbn 1,634
287 luispyarts 1,626
288 BeetleBailey33 1,613
289 stefanocappuccio-sc 1,613
290 philipprosie-01053 1,597
291 sirmac-66574 1,591
292 admin-05633 1,584
293 banat_kron 1,578
294 davekuskie 1,571
295 Dekkappai 1,556
296 Enilenna 1,549
297 ajaynain-08697 1,548
298 NoRa_FoKa 1,532
299 snail3 1,522
300 fadlykurniadi 1,521

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A massive thank you to all of our contributors who took the time to submit to IMDb in January. The top 300 were responsible for a whopping 3,895,379 items over the course of the month, that equates to 125,657 items a day, 5236 an hour and 87 a minute!

A special call-out for the top ten:

  1. Nomissimon10
  2. SkipEastport
  3. matthias_metzger
  4. inespape-1
  5. arshela
  6. cinelamour
  7. formulakaz
  8. apostolis1989
  9. BonaFideBOSS
  10. RitaAbbas

and 54% of all of the entire leaderboard items were contributed by the top 5 alone.

This is my last leaderboard update, thanks very much for taking part and I’ve enjoyed running the leaderboard since its inception. My colleagues Jay and Michelle will continue this for you in the future.

Thanks again for all of your interest and happy contributing!

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@Will​  Thanks Will and thanks for running this program. 

I did better than expected, mostly via cast lists and plot keywords for movies I watched at the (virtual) Sundance Film Festival (normally I am big IMDb Answers contributor). 

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Thanks Col for the support! Sundance to the rescue ;)

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@Will​ Thanks for your updates. Always a good time reading the leaderboards.

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I submitted a few hundred title corrections last month, and since IMDb added copies of all titles as display titles I had to correct those too. I guess that's one way to up my numbers.

(I wonder if the IMDb computer that added all those titles got its own place in the leaderboard.)

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3 years ago

Thanks for this update, submissions certainly have increased.  My figure was 19,128 which put me in postion 19.  The last time I reached over 19,000 (July '21) it put me in 14th position! The competition is certainly hotting up & I doubt that I will get much lower than position 19 this year.  But it's fun trying....

Thanks

Don

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@don_30lej8zccspy3Don't stop believing, and keep up the good work!

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@Will 

IMDb Top 300 Data Contributors for 2021 (and Happy New Year 2022 from IMDb)
Col_Needham, Employee
Sat, Jan 1, 2022
https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/imdb-top-300-data-contributors-for-2021-and-happy-new-year-2022-from-imdb/61d013ded8944f34de691c4e

Rank  

Submissions  

Nickname

1

3,232,592

inespape-1

2

1,404,109

matthias_metzger

3

780,926

formulakaz

4

732,535

xylit333

5

678,687

MAthePA

6

592,947

Gabrielfox

7

551,268

Nomissimon10

8

522,702

cinelamour

9

457,368

ron_whisky

10

362,604

michaelfool

February 2022

rank nick total movement
1 Nomissimon10 785100 ↔️
2 inespape-1 324101 ⬆️
3 formulakaz 102229 ⬆️
4 matthias_metzger 97661 ⬇️
5 daanishichsanme 70502 ⬆️
6 soma-2 57436 ⬆️
7 cinelamour 47876 ⬇️
8 madhuc 37018 ⬆️
9 raympretorius 31787 ⬆️
10 RitaAbbas 26022 ↔️

January 2022

rank nick total
1 Nomissimon10 818,412
2 SkipEastport 510,298
3 matthias_metzger 439,199
4 inespape-1 237,715
5 arshela 77,797
6 cinelamour 64,864
7 formulakaz 54,819
8 apostolis1989 52,020
9 BonaFideBOSS 40,972
10 RitaAbbas 40,585

November

rank nick total movement
1 Nomissimon10 431,935 ⬆️
2 xylit333 380,698 ⬆️
3 matthias_metzger 374,408 ⬇️
4 inespape-1 282,419 ⬇️
5 SkipEastport 102,333 ⬇️
6 formulakaz 82,923 ⬇️
7 tazjjh 75,551 ⬆️
8 ron_whisky 51,918 ↔️
9 cinelamour 51,694 ⬇️
10 Sleugercios 46,069 ⬆️

October

rank nick total movement
1 inespape-1 333,266 ⬆️
2 matthias_metzger 213,832 ⬇️
3 SkipEastport 157,799 ⬆️
4 xylit333 76,783 ⬆️
5 formulakaz 72,620 ⬇️
6 Nomissimon10 72,041 ⬆️
7 cinelamour 50,633 ⬇️
8 ron_whisky 37,655 ⬇️
9 slordoshoes 27,571 ↔️
10 11433Sthlm 26,772 ⬆️

September

rank nick total movement
1 matthias_metzger 289,090 ⬆️
2 inespape-1 288,498 ⬇️
3 formulakaz 65,475 ⬆️
4 cinelamour 52,171 ⬆️
5 ron_whisky 33,275 ⬆️
6 KaramXXV 32,845 ⬆️
7 GusF 26,006 ⬆️
8 xylit333 23,892 ⬆️
9 slordoshoes 21,636 ⬆️
10 SkipEastport 21,457 ⬆️

August

rank nick total movement
1 inespape-1 280,778 ↔️
2 Gabrielfox 111,032 ↔️
3 matthias_metzger 95,717 ⬆️
4 formulakaz 72,291 ⬇️
5 Woodyanders 44,388 ⬆️
6 cinelamour 43,622 ↔️
7 11433Sthlm 27,722 ⬆️
8 harrisonjiang-78175 23,490 ⬆️
9 KaramXXV 22,207 ⬇️
10 thebreadladyky 21,833 ⬆️

July

rank nick total movement
1 inespape-1 271,970 ↔️
2 Gabrielfox 231,852 ⬆️
3 formulakaz 67,438 ⬇️
4 michaelfool 35,408 ⬇️
5 KaramXXV 31,454 ⬆️
6 cinelamour 30,231 ⬇️
7 soma-2 29,595 ⬆️
8 Woodyanders 28,780

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9 joeddelozier 27,588 ⬆️
10 11433Sthlm 21,854 ⬆️

June 1/2 year

rank nick total
1 inespape-1 1,546,827
2 formulakaz 346,971
3 michaelfool 286,491
4 ron_whisky 280,016
5 cinelamour 248,299
6 bradleykent1 225,767
7 Gabrielfox 209,168
8 Perspicuity1 197,788
9 ctfabian 138,513
10 Woodyanders 129,996

May

rank nick total movement
1 inespape-1 324,781 ↔️
2 formulakaz 69,169 ⬆️
3 michaelfool 58,231 ⬆️
4 bradleykent1 55,560 ⬇️
5 cinelamour 36,000 ⬆️
6 farhanazhari05 33,825 ⬆️
7 Woodyanders 32,858 ⬆️
8 Mark_a_Wood 21,934 ⬆️
9 watcheram 18,937 ⬆️
10 ron_whisky 18,196 ⬇️

April

rank nick total movement
1 inespape-1 306,490 ↔️
2 ron_whisky 81,422 ⬆️
3 bradleykent1 62,758 ⬆️
4 formulakaz 52,068 ↔️
5 ctfabian 45,315 ⬆️
6 cinelamour 36,508 ⬇️
7 michaelfool 34,040 ⬇️
8 Woodyanders 21,670 ⬆️
9 Mark_a_Wood 21,421 ⬆️
10 dscbulkmail-amazon 18,691 ⬆️

March

rank nick total movement
1 inespape-1 282,149 ↔️
2 Perspicuity1 81,437 ↔️
3 michaelfool 56,343 ↔️
4 formulakaz 55,689 ↔️
5 cinelamour 48,573 ↔️
6 spring_migrant 37,015 ↔️
7 harrisonjiang-78175 28,689 ⬆️
8 batshoncristiano 28,466 ⬇️
9 Woodyanders 24,806 ⬆️
10 Mark_a_Wood 24,400 ↔️

nashleeteamo-85176 
Sat Jan 1 2022
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur147786058/

wardowski-24301 
Tue Feb 1 2022
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur149325337/

1,539,279 Registered January 2022

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It looks like there are a lot more people using some sort of automation. I finished top 25 last year while averaging right around what I had this month of 10,000+ edits. Now, I've almost dropped out of the top 50!

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@adrian​ I did. I was using a crawler script to download all images for a series from an Arabic database similar to IMDB, and another script to batch upload them on the series' page on IMDB.
But it freezes my pc when the script is running so I stopped using it.
There are tons of data on Arabic/Indian/East-Asian sites that are missing on IMDB so automating the process may be useful to catch up with regional databases!

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@DayoEnor​ 

The problem is that no one checks the accuracy of this data before (or likely after) it is entered.

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@adrian​ Me too, but it wasn't the drop that bothered me as much as everything I submitted went into pending for a week or longer and I ended up having to stop contributing for over a week as I couldn't continue due to that so IMDb lost around 1500 contributions I would've made. I've no real problem with people that are doing it right now but my worry with the bots is two fold, one what will happen when bad actors get into the game and flood the site with nonsense, and also is this mass submitting what's clogging up the system, I've never seen as many pending submissions on the site as I have this year so far and I've never had to wait an entire week for the casts of mainstream US shows to be approved before, if this is the case, I hope IMDb is doing everything they can mitigate it.
I always believed one day in the future, IMDb would use it's own bots to fill out everything without need for contributors, so I'm not against bots or any users but if it's knackering or damaging to IMDb then I'm not happy about it.
I hope somebody on staff can put my mind to rest on the situation.

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@adrian​ 

@Col_Needham 😀

  

??

Why don't TV & Movie Producers
send IMDb Staff an official, accurate, and complete list
of who's who for latest project
Paid staff can add this
or have some studio secretary add the data directly as a non paid contributor

These Producers must be looking for information here for future projects ??

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I'd love to see a ranking exclusively of MOVIE-related submissions, excluding all the other TV/Video/Music Video/Podcast/Video Game crapola. After all, the M in IMDb stands for Movies.

It's obvious that the crazy numbers at the top come from all that non-movie, TV-etc. stuff.

99% of my submissions are FILM-related, so I bet my position would rise significantly in that FILM-only ranking.

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No. 90. I doubt I'll be able to keep it up this year (c. Carry On) but it's nice to make it for the first month at least.

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3 years ago

can someone explain to me how did one person make an 818,412 edit !? and are there an easy way to check my own edit count

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@muzili​ The reason one person can make that many contributions is that we use automated scripts that uploads vast amounts of data at once. Instead of doing it all manually. I use API's to gather data on podcasts, series and episodes. Then upload it, this process is much faster that doing it manually and makes me able to contribute such large numbers. (Approx 216.000 /12h, if I let it run consecutively and have unuploaded data) I hope that answered your question, don't be a stranger if you have any other questions.

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Yep, I assumed it but how trustable uploading non-processed data? And this case why we are on the same leaderboard race, I mean isn't it supposed to be a separate leaderboard? Otherwise, the leaderboard loses the purpose of a friendly race concept.

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@muzili​ The data is trustable in the sense that it is directly from the source. An example of this is me using the NRK api (Norwegian State Television) and upload their series, episodes and podcasts. All the data provided in the API is 100% correct, and more accurate than what a user would be able to fetch manually. I started out doing it all manually, but found myself doing things wrongly from time to time, causing issues for myself and others. The percentage of mistakes is lowered to almost zero. And it is done automatically. I would also like to point out that making my program has taken a lot of hours, and that people automating contributions also put in the hours to get things on the road. However, once the program is done the efficiency is extremely high.

(Upfront work high, but once you complete the program it lives its own life. Example: If I stopped lifting a finger from this day on I could expect to contribute between 90.000-120.000 each month. This figure would drop as time went past and the series and podcasts I track die out, but still a sizeable amount)

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Sounds like good resource and good api :D

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? ?

muzili
Joined Thu, Feb 17, 2022 


Your User Profile Activity Page: 
https://www.imdb.com/profile

Your Account Settings:
https://www.imdb.com/registration/accountsettings

Your Update History:
https://contribute.imdb.com/updates/history 

Your Contribution History:
https://contribute.imdb.com/contributions/history

Your Ratings:
https://www.imdb.com/list/ratings/

Your Lists: 
https://www.imdb.com/profile/lists

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3 years ago

Perhaps there needs to be a leaderboard each for scraped entries and manual entries.

No manual contributor can ever compete with (or get recognition for) someone who auto-contributes an average of 18 entries per minute 24/7 for the entire month!

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@EvanD71​ i agree with you. The guy who at #1(Nomissimon10) is already guaranteed 2022's top #1-5 contributor for the year 2022. And it's only January. How are we supposed to friendly race? I mean it's something like we're on a running race and he is using a motorbike or jet fighter.

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@EvanD71​ This could be a good idea, only issue is that it could be hard to differentiate between someone who is contributing automatically from someone who is doing it manually. And if you would want to find out IMDb staff would either have to spend a lot of time sending out mails and queries finding out who did do it automatically and who did not, and who is to say that my profile is used by a collective uploading on one account to get a joint recognition every month? I personally don't hide the fact that I am doing it with an automation script I have made, and would have no issue being placed on a different leaderboard in the same post. However, it could become more of a hassle for the IMDb staff than what good it does.

I hope I got my point across, and once again underlining that I would have no issue being put in a different leaderboard for people using automation. And I completely understand your questioning of why it is not done, all people that end up on the leaderboard deserve a callout for the great work they all put in. And I am sure there are many people just on the edge of getting recognition that put in a lot of time just like the rest of the 300 top contributors.

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@Nomissimon10​ yep, we don't have a problem either. And about noticing who uses automation I think IMDb can detect it by using cookies. Who uses API or they auto-calculate the average contribution per minute.

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@Nomissimon10​ I also have no issue with automated contributions. As long as the data gets uploaded, we are achieving the same end result. :-)

Obviously a manual contribution is both tedious and time-consuming (pause a recording... or sneakily take a photo of the credits in a cinema..., type each name and character, etc) and deserves its own recognition.

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@EvanD71​ yes kinda but this is a thing IMDb stuff should think and decide. Even if we have positive agree or negative agree it's nothing but a dead end.

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@EvanD71@muzili Yeah, I completely get it. (That you don't have a problem with me, but the fact that it could come off as unfair) And contributing manually definitely is a tideous process. I have been there myself, and found myself in the situation where I spent a lot of time contributing manually. The thing is that we programmers are lazy, and if there is a repeating process we can make it go automatically.

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@muzili​ Also, no, cookies can't be used. The programmer can just set the version of browser, type of browser, cookies and other things that would obfuscate that. A calculation of contributions per minute might also not favour collectives of people contributing because they would be multiple people doing stuff at the same time. And a rate of uploads can just be set by the contributor.

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Just to note, some of the cookies directly pertain to being logged into the system, and there is no access privilege to the submission form for client hosts that represent unregistered or logged-out persons. Thus the matter of the cookies being used for tracking purposes is a given, an irrelevant given. On the server-side, it will always be clear how many submissions are derived form a particular IMDb user account, and how quickly, but it won't necessarily be easy to determine whether automation has been involved, multiple human beings using the same account or neither. Although, some of the cookies IMDb assigns are "tab-related" for lack of a better description, as they change values with every page visit, so there might be a way to tell if two separate computer systems are simultaneously logged into the same account.