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Subgenre keywords

The keyword guide has new guidelines on subgenres. There is a long list of possible keywords. Some entries such as crime-documentary and music-documentary seem unnecessary given that genres like Crime, Music and Documentary can be combined in any search. These keywords seem to violate your e

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Introducing: Subgenre & Plot Timeframe Keywords

  We’d like to announce an update to our Keywords help article, which now defines specific formats for Subgenres and Plot Timeframes. This is part of an effort to make our keywords more standardized and structured, in order to aid title discovery. In short, Subgenre keywords specify which

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Suggested additions to subgenre keywords

shoot-em-up-action Examples: The Great Train Robbery (1903), Winchester '73 (1950), A Fistful of Dollars (1964), Bonnie and Clyde (1967), The Dirty Dozen (1967), The Wild Bunch (1969), Dirty Harry (1971), Westworld (1973), Death Wish (1974), Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), El Mariachi (1992), Hard Bo

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Error with adding subgenre keyword "kids-family"

One of the official subgenre keywords recently added is "kids-family", for family movies specifically aimed at kids. However, when trying to add this keyword to a title, a strange error occurs. The keyword is automatically rejected as "not valid" due to being "too subjective". To check and see if I

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Subgenres should not be types of Keywords

A year ago I posted this thread. In it, I argued that IMDB should transition to an upvote/downvote system of applying keywords for titles. It was mostly disliked and rejected by commentors there for fear that factual keywords would be voted off of profiles (a possibility, albeit under that system an

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Subgenre problem: Confidently speaking for the logical people in the world...

How can Neo-Noir NOT be a subgenre when Film-Noir IS a genre? How can Neo-Screwball-Comedy NOT be a subgenre when Screwball-Comedy IS a genre? How can Mockumentary NOT be a subgenre when Documentary IS a genre? Erotica, NOT a subgenre? Hardcore, NOT a subgenre? Softcore, NOT a subgenr

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The "1980s" style keywords should be merged into their counterpart "timeframe-1980s" style keywords

Seven months ago, the "timeframe-" keywords (like "timeframe-1980s") were officially announced. Like them or not, the "timeframe-" keywords are here to stay. Meanwhile, the "1980s" style keywords remain side by side with the "timeframe-1980s" style keywords, and the "1980s" style keywords continu

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"Rebelde" (2004) Keywords

IMDb's guideline is very clear: Episode-specific keywords submitted to the TV series page Keywords submitted to the TV series page should be relevant to and describe the entire series. Keywords that are specific to a particular episode should be added to that episode only.On the "Rebelde" (2004

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Keywords now displayed on the IMDb iOS and Android apps

      We are excited to announce that keywords are now displayed in the latest versions of the IMDb iOS and Android apps. There is now a dedicated “Keywords” section on title main pages in the IMDb apps, which shows a subset of keywords that have been voted as most relevan

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About my keywords

I've been trying to add keywords but my submissions don't seem to get accepted however when i make submissions to company credits they're added

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Slurs as keywords

Was wondering what the rule is on slurs as keywords? I've found b*tch and cr*pple as keywords which I think ought to be changed to something less offensive.

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IMDb staff: Please merge these keywords into "women's-wrestling" and then block the keywords

Dear IMDb staff: Here are two oddly phrased (poorly formatted) keywords that only show up on women's wrestling titles: women-in-the-ring (146 titles) women-for-rings (5 titles) These keywords are not true duplicates of the "women's-wrestling" keyword, but that is how they are being

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Please reinstate easy deletion of keywords that contain main-genre suffixes (e.g. vietnam-war, environmental-crime, interspecies-romance)

I decided to create a new post on this issue, to make sure IMDb will see it. Fairly recently, and simultaneous with IMDb's decision to allow specific subgenres as keywords, IMDb also set up "flags"* within its system that makes it extremely difficult to delete any keyword that happens to contain

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Timeframe keywords

Many new keywords have been added (recently, I think) starting with timeframe-: https://www.imdb.com/find?s=kw&q=timeframe We already have other keywords for decades, centuries etc. to indicate the setting, just without the word timeframe. I tried to delete a few that I thought were mis

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Keywords

When you click on a movie and scroll down to its Keywords, I think there should be a “drop down tab” option for this, just like there is for Parents Guide. It could clean up space on screen, and there is also a lot of spoilers in the plot keywords that could be avoided being seen if there was a drop

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Colo(u)r keywords

Most of the keywords with the word colo(u)r in it are spelled the American way: https://www.imdb.com/find?s=kw&q=color . However, there are also quite some keywords where the word is spelled the British way: https://www.imdb.com/find?s=kw&q=colour . Is it possible for a staffer to merge them

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Should these keywords be banned?

I believe these keywords should be permabanned. Does anyone disagree? Before you answer, please click the links to get a sense of how these keywords have been applied to titles. available-on-dvd (222 titles) available-in-dvd (16 titles) available-for-viewing (106 titles) available-for-vi

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(super)hero(es) keywords issue

According to the keywords guide (https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/titles/keywords/GXQ22G5Y72TH8MJ5?ref_=helpms_helpart_inli...#) keywords should be singular, not plural. Therefore I'd like to ask a staffer to merge the keyword heroes (currently attached to 68 titles, https://www.imdb.com/s

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Keywords need merging

The following keywords should be merged: room-mate and roommates  should be merged in to the more common (and singular term) roommate

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Are "filmed-in-" keywords allowed?

Someone (probably just one or two contributors) has been adding "filmed-in-" keywords to indicate the geographic places where titles were filmed. The contributor is particularly focused on titles filmed in Arizona. I believe these "filmed-in-" keywords are not proper keywords. First, they may hav

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