Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Flashing Lights Category in Parents Guide
I’m genuinely concerned for individuals who have photosensitive epilepsy (I’m not one of them), or are otherwise sensitive to flashing lights. I’d really like for IMDB to add a category for Flashing Lights in the Parents’ Guide where people can vote as Mild, Moderate or Severe just like the other 5
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Films from before 1927 should not be allowed to be classified as musicals
Currently, there are 200+ films from before the advent of sound listed as "musicals" on IMDb. (See for yourselves: https://www.imdb.com/search/title/?release_date=,1927-10-05&genres=musical) The Jazz Singer, generally considered the first 'talkie' and the first movie musical, was released on O
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Suggestion: Automatically remove keywords when two-thirds of their votes are "not-relevant"
The specifics on how this works could be up for debate, but currently the only way keywords get removed is via users manually putting them through a removal process. The problem here is that very few people seem to do this and we end up with many releases having a mass of inaccurate or duplicate key
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Include radio serials/adaptations and audio dramas/books
This came up on another thread, so I thought I'd post it as a suggestion: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi... There is a large amount of crossover between radio and audio works, more so than video games: * They often have large casts, script writers, etc., often sharing the same big names as
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Release date attributes
Please add guidance on streaming/VOD/internet releases to the attributes section of the release date submission guide. https://help.imdb.com/article/contrib... For instance, the distributor guide describes both "VOD" and "internet" attributes, should both also be used for release dates? https://h
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Making Gameplay Eligible on IMDb
Other than voice overs, what else can be done to, or added to, gameplay in order to make it eligible to be listed on IMDb? I know (or at least I assume that) that machinimas are allowed, since it most likely will have a separate narrative from whatever game it was recorded in. Not to mention all
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Remove rule about modifying posters
Suggestion to remove this rule about poster images: If the existing display poster is incorrect – you must request a new poster to replace the current image first. Submitting a request to delete the existing 'primary' poster, before the new one is live will result in your con
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Index page
It would be a good idea to restore the user review index page to make it easier to browse a user's reviews without refreshing the bottom of the page.
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Processing Time Tracking - Graphs Attached
Clarification: This data is based on my own dataset generated from the IMDb processing times page (Public known information) and data is added every 12 hours. (9 am/pm UTC). Also I am not a member of IMDb staff. Hello, after the massive increase of contribution over the last month (september-octo
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Persian Plots
In The Name of God Hi IMDb, One of Oldest, Historical & Traditional language of world wide in humanity is Persian what's more than 100 million people are talking Persian on Earth Planet[1] that it's belongs to Aryan people[2] where part of it's coming from first powerful
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