Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 250 data contributors for 2016. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 250 would like to know their 2016 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2019. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2019 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p

I left a review for the film Don’t Breathe 2 and entitled the review Don’t Watch 2. Obviously my review was initially approved as it’s been on the site for a while, with over sixty-six votes, receiving about thirty or more upvotes. I left the film a one-star rating. All of a sudden the review has

It’s bad enough that IMDb allows vicious misogynistic, racist, and anti-LGBTQ sentiments to run rampant in reviews. But now I can prove IMDb is actively participating in discrimination through the Parents Guide. I have collected (and continue to collect) far too many concrete examples for this to be

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2021. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2021 (only) live item total and their position in the complete list, pl

Temporarily posting this as an "idea" resulted in views but no feedback, so I've converted it to "problem" as planned, because someone needs to say it. My understanding of the Parents Guide's is that the content should be descriptive, that it's not a place to espouse one's personal viewpoint or

Included below is our end-of-year message to IMDb's top 300 data contributors for 2020. Thanks again to everyone who contributed to IMDb -- every data contribution helps. If anyone outside of the top 300 would like to know their 2020 (only) live item total and position in the complete list, please p

This isn't a question, per se, it's just something I thought people (i.e. IMDb users and staff) should know about if they didn't already. In 2022, after several decades of research, animation historian Keith Scott published a landmark two-volume work, Cartoon Voices of the Golden Age, 1930-1970, un

​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​🙄 We've chatted about this before - still not fixed ??​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ (Mon Nov 20 2017) ​​​​​​​​ ​​​​​​​​   ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Link Activity page to Plot Authors​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​      ​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​Col Needham​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​IMDb member since Octo

As mentioned in the thread below, a large number of non-adult titles have been mislabeled. I have been able to get a few of the erroneous genres deleted, such as Showgirls (1995) 230521-182740-644000 and Così fan tutte (1992) 230521-225744-682000, but in many of the other submissions I have been tol