Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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

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

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 believ

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 them in t

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 .JPG is pretty compact, but giv

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.

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?

Will there ever be a time when we can the ability to organize a photo gallery? Some galleries have hundreds and hundreds of images, many are duplicates. Would be great if I could put all the images from a scene next to each other. Or all the images of an actor next to each other. Better to notice du

I think it's time to give editors a better reason for rejecting our submissions. I think "Unable to Verify" is a vague example and I think the editors should give us a more in-depth reason by writing an extended comment in the blank box for them to write. Being unable to verify is a not good enough

I do enjoy the trivia and user input here on IMDB, but there’s a few things that could use improvement. 1. Release dates. For God’s sake, not just the year, but the actual release date! Come on. Details people, details. 2. Cast & character info. Are photos of actors really that hard to come by? Tell