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Are you ever going to make watching the film or tv show a requirement for writing outlines and summaries?

I contribute to pages quite a lot, and most of the contributions are rewriting plot outlines and deleting nonsense summaries, written by people who have clearly never watched more than a few minutes of whatever they're writing about. Many have clearly been contributed after only watching the trailers.

Also, if over 100 of a contributor's contributions have been deleted for flagrantly ignoring the rules, could you do something about them?

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Michelle

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26 days ago

Hi @StayWilde -

While it would be challenging to implement a Viewing Verification System for Plot data submissions, I see the value of your request and have modified this post to an Idea where other community members can comment with their ideas and vote on it, as well as for IMDb staff to track interest.

In the meantime, any bad plot content should be reported for removal (or a replacement submitted) through our Contribution form and our staff can then investigate.

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StayWilde

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Thank you.

I understand that it would be very hard, if not impossible, to monitor, but if you made it a rule that people can only submit information for things they've watched, and made it so that after a set number of rule violations people can no longer contribute, people would police themselves; no-one wants to get banned.

We already get badges for contributions, so you're tracking that. Would it not be possible to use the same algorithm to track the submissions that have been removed due to bad plot information?

I have removed or replaced the bad plot content I have found, but since there are 3 nutcases, who have posted at least 1000 bad plots between them (mostly on the same things, so I'm deleting 2 or 3 plots per episode), correcting it all would be a full-time job. Hence my request that you have some kind of enforcement for your submission rules.

It kinda feels like I'm being punished at the moment, because for moderators to make a decision on whether to delete a plot, I have to write a fairly detailed summary myself. At least if something was done about the offending contributors, it wouldn't feel quite so one sided; at the moment they're just creating work for other people, and being rewarded for it in the contributor rankings.

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23 days ago

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Are you ever going to make watching the film or tv show a requirement for writing outlines and summaries?

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