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inappropriate plot keywords

Have just watched Your Name I can see that one of the first plot keywords is upskirt. This is not the main feature of this film. What does IMDB do to stop the plot keyword being gamed?

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Genres Should Not Be Keywords

The guidelines are very clear in stating that genres should not be repeated as keywords. Yet, this problem continues to happen. Recently, I have audited and corrected 96 "thrilller" (Yes, three l's) keywords and 80 "mistery" (yes, with an "i" instead of a "y) keywords as well as many, many other key

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Spam & Useless Keywords that Should be Banned

I previously raised most of these keywords in an earlier "question" post. The consensus appears to be that these keywords should be banned. Accordingly, I propose that the following keywords should be deleted from the IMDb system and permabanned: Useless/Spam Keywords - Please Delete and Ban availab

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IMDb Staff: Please block and delete these keywords

Dear IMDb staff: Here are a few more random keywords that should be deleted and blocked from the system. Subjective Keywords to Delete and Block freaky (7 titles) drive-in-classic (190 titles) Genre Keywords to Delete and Block bestdocumentary (1 title) documentary-feature-film (9 titles) feature-do

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Are these "-available" keywords appropriate? (e.g., "unrated-version-available")

It seems to me that these keywords are improper, since they don't really describe the film. Plus, similar keywords like "available-on-dvd" and "not-on-dvd" have previously been deleted and blocked. Should these keywords be deleted and blocked as well? director's-cut-available (10 titles) deleted-sce

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Are these "tv-movie" keywords valid?

It would seem that these keywords are not valid, since they replicate information that can be easily searched via the database. As a secondary reason, the keywords do not in any way involve the plots of the titles. (I realize that not all keywords involve plots, so this factor is not dispositive.) A

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Racist keywords - Help needed from IMDb staff

Dear IMDb staff: your help is needed to permanently ban several racist keywords that are racist against Asian people. These keywords are mostly the work of a single troll. When the keywords are deleted, the troll typically adds them right back. almond-eyes almond-shaped-eyes asiatic chinaman chinawo

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Keywords mermaids

According to the keywords guide (https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5?ref_=helpms_helpart_inline#), a keyword should never be plural. Therefore, can a staffer merge the existing occurrences of the keyword mermaids (https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?keywords=me

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Actor character keywords

neil patrick harris character tony shalhoub character Not how character keywords are intended to be used. Perhaps they could be deleted when possible.

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'Anti-Trump' keywords

These very subjective keywords are popping up on high-profile titles and seem to be added by someone who is on a campaign against the contents of thise titles. Could they be blocked? anti-trump-media https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?... anti-trump-film https://www.imdb.com/search/keyword/?... tr

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IMDb Staff: Please block and delete these poorly formatted Adult keywords

Dear IMDb staff: Here are some more keywords that should be deleted and blocked from the system. All of these appear on Adult titles, and they are all poorly formatted keywords that should be deleted and blocked. I suspect all these keywords were generated by the same contributor. Poorly Formatted A

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Please block these one-letter keywords

The following keywords should be deleted and blocked as poorly formatted: a (6 titles) o (3 titles) s (5 titles) x (3 titles) y (2 titles)

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Sexual keywords

When a particular sex act or other intimate detail is an important plot point, as in the Netflix show Sex Education, it seems to me it should be possible to describe it with a keyword. So why are some such keywords being rejected as not following guidelines? There is nothing about this in the keywor

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Some keywords odds and ends

Hello IMDb staff, These proposed keyword edits have been posted in other threads, but I am consolidating them here to make sure they are not overlooked. All mergers and auto-conversions should occur in the direction of the arrows. First, these keywords need to be re-merged and set up for auto-conver

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How does the Plot Keywords section get filled?

I'm trying to find movies about certain themes, for which I use the Plot Keywords section. However I often find that movies are tagged with keywords that I don't directly see the relevance of, so I'm wondering how those end up there. Who provides the plot keywords/how is this section filled?

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The keywords "blockbuster" and "movie-flop"

Since these two IMDb keywords are vague-sounding - as a film's box office cannot always be conclusively proved - I propose that they both be deleted.

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Why neo-noir is not a subgenre keyword?

By all logical means neo-noir is a subgenre, however respective keyword is indexed as "plot-detail".

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Spam & Useless Keywords that Should be Banned (part 2)

I just discovered another trove of bad keywords, all of which were mass-added to female wresting titles, just like a previous batch of keywords like I raised in a previous post. These keywords are all bad, and for a variety of different reasons, including plural keywords, useless keywords, keywords

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Adding multiple keywords at once

Is there a way to fill in multiple keywords at once into the submissions form for them? For example if I have a list of the keywords I want to add separated by commas like this: (keyword1, keyword2, keyword3, keyword4, keyword5) Is there a quick way to add thoose into their submission forms without

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IMDb Staff: Please block and delete these keywords

Dear IMDb staff: Here are a few more random keywords that should be deleted and blocked from the system. Subjective Keywords to Delete and Block great (4 titles) heart-warming (6 titles) heartwarming (30 titles) Genre Keywords to Delete and Block musica (13 titles) children's (1 title) Vague and Gen

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