Why was this contribution for trivia declined?

@Peter_pbn​ 

No. IMDb does not have a general 1,000-character maximum for typed user reviews or most text contributions.

For user reviews, IMDb currently requires:

• Minimum: 300 characters
• Maximum: 10,000 characters 

My contribution text contains 1,052 characters, including spaces and punctuation.

can you or somebody show me where we are limited to 1000 characters? Because if that were the case then 3/4 of what is on these contributions should never be allowed.

and if IMDb is so hot and heavy about limiting contributions to 1000 characters then they should have an actual apparatus downloaded that stopped you when you hit 1001 characters, because for IMDb to expect everybody to actually count every single letter they type is ridiculous and unrealistic.

and did you actually count every single character I typed?

besides, I've submitted over 200 contributions, some of which, like many others, are over 1000 characters

@Cousinvin62​ 

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/declined-this-decision-makes-no-sense-please-explain/6a5130c51cd91b1face9f9c8?commentId=6a515ec31d065b4705f0cd7e

I agree IMDb could warn you in the form; until then there are many websites which will count characters in text.

My guess is that long trivia is flagged, but IMDb's editors may still allow exceptions.

@Peter_pbn​ 

I always love to reference this when I'm accused of having my trivia too long.
this is a thesis and a diatribe somebody else contributed for trivia for the movie A Few Good Men.  ChatGPT said the one from that movie has 3616 words to include spaces, punctuation marks and line breaks.

 ChatGPT said my trivia Via was 1052 characters and that included all the spaces and the punctuation marks.

Or did somebody from IMDb actually count each and every letter? I sincerely doubt it.

"Aaron Sorkin, was inspired to write the play "A Few Good Men", from a recounting of a case being work on by his sister Deborah Sorkin. a recent graduate of Boston University Law School, who had signed up for three years on the U.S. Navy Judge Advocate General's Corps. She represented some of the individuals who were charged. The facts of the case:

• There was a number of Marines who worked perimeter security on base, which was one of the tougher assignments, who were part of an an elite and unofficial group of Marines known as "The Ten" which engaged in more strenuous conditioning and worked directly under the base colonel and company captain.
• The Marines who were on-duty in this group ,engaged in fence-line shooting to "instigate a war".
• While stationed at Guantanamo Bay, Private First Class (PFC) William Alvarado wrote letters to a Texas Congressman complaining of poor conditions and illegal activities on the base, including Marines firing shots across the fence line into Cuba. PFC Alvarado also requested a transfer off the base.
• There were also concerns that Alvarado informed that some marines at Guantanamo Bay had fired without authorization into enemy territory.
• This information reached commanding officer Colonel Samuel Adams , a Texas Native, who elected not to transfer Alvarado, despite concerns that the Marine's violation of the chain of command may put him in danger.
• In September 1986, "The Ten" allegedly were encouraged to punish Alvarado for what was viewed as dishonorable conduct. One night, "The Ten" chose to perform a "code red". A "code red" is how they refer to hazing a Marine and is strictly against Marine Corps policy.
• Alvarado did lose consciousness when he was bound with tape and gagged with a pillowcase
• Alvarado was taken to the infirmary before being transferred to a hospital in Miami, Florida, where he went on to make a full recovery
• Following the incident, "The Ten" admitted guilt and were arrested immediately.
• All ten Marines were offered a choice: they could accept a plea bargain, which would see them receiving no criminal charges or convictions, though they would be dishonorably discharged from the Marine Corps, or they could proceed on to a court martial in which they would be charged with attempted murder and conspiracy to commit murder.
• Seven of the ten accepted the plea bargain, including platoon leader Christopher Lee Valdez, who was the only one of the seven to get his discharge upgraded to "honorable".
• David Cox, along with two other Marines, elected to stand trial, arguing that they had committed this act under an order from a commanding officer and that murder had never been the intention. The court martial, which lasted four days, saw Cox and the other two Marines cleared of both murder and conspiracy charges, though Cox was found guilty of simple assault, for which he was sentenced to thirty days. Since he had been in the brig for thirty-eight days at the time, the simple assault charge was dismissed to time served. Cox went on to finish his service with the Marine Corps, being honorably discharged in September 1989 at the rank of corporal.
• When Cox was discharged from the Marines, he worked part-time for the parcel-carrier UPS, for nearly four years. and was on the verge of receiving a full-time position, till he vanished under mysterious circumstances, in his home state of Massachusetts. On the day of his disappearance, his supervisor had left a message on his machine informing him of a full-time offer. His body was discovered in a wooden area near the Charles River, in April, four months after his disappearance."

again my point? I despise double standards. There's no way I can be told mine too long when there's proof positive that others that are three times as long as mine get approved.

I challenge their decision to reject my trivia