Data Issues & Policy Discussions
This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.
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Preview/Trailer Video Subtitles or Dubbed Selection
Why can not IMDb Preview/Trailer Video's have selectable subtitles or dubbing tracks. After all most, though not all, English movies are subtitled or dubbed and visa versa where non English movies are subtitled or dubbed into English. It would save the trouble of going into YouTube and finding th
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Adult Pages Removing
Hi, I am asking all of the IMDB members to read this post carefully. Aa a result, IMDB will take an action. All of the adult(porn) pages, movies, links, actors, actress, ... should be deleted from IMDB. When there are adult pages here, it means we are making them official. This website is checked by
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When creating new keywords, the "did you mean?" suggestions should include the number of titles in parentheses for each existing keyword
This post involves the process by which a contributor tries to add a previously non-existing keyword on IMDb to a title. Since the keyword doesn't already exist and the contributor is essentially creating a new keyword, the system will suggest existing keywords that might be a better fit (or that th
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costume-drama (subgenre) should be described as fiction
As a subgenre, "costume-drama" is defined by IMDb as: "A drama set between the middle ages and the start of World War I." To clearly differentiate costume-drama from "costume-drama-history", I suggest changing the description to: "A fictional drama set between the middle ages and the start of World
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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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Submission of Just the Birthday
Hi, Considering the recent update presented by IMDB to all IMDBPro users that they can hide their year of birth (age), us contributors should be able to do this, too. I mean, we should be able to add the birthday of someone without entering the year, but the current system won't allow this. I bel
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Issue + idea regarding clarifying specific problems with reviews
Dear IMDB. For a while now you've been changing your website. You've made it harder to post reviews. Your moderators seem to pay very close attention to specific wording. It is not that easy to make quick changes to reviews anymore. Being able to moderate reviews one has posted and editing the
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Posting Still Images: file size
message today, posting movie stills in JPG format " "Error uploading image Images must be between 50kB and 12MB in size" The 24kB images are nicely hi-def really. I don't see any problem with them. Can this size requirement be reviewed and downsized? It seems like the
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2nd Unit Director/Assistant Director Should be Different Departments/Categories.
So, as ADs are completely separate to 2nd Unit Directors I fully believe that they should be able to have their separate sections. The AD department are completely different to what the 2nd Unit Director has to do.
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New badge idea: IMDb's Bottom 100
https://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom People get badges for seeing all 250 movies for a given year... don't raters deserve a badge even more for watching stuff Manos: Hands of Fate?
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