List management

Hi Jon. Thankyou for that. So I don't have to do anything on the subject of list ordering as you have done it? re 3). There was one item on the list which I partially censored as it had an obscure but potentially problematic word in it...but it is uncensored in the song's title itself and on the Wikipedia page. Maybe something like that might be the problem, rather than the URL fragments that I included, which excluded the portion up to www.? It's really not clear what the problem is as IMDB does not flag anything to me. It would be good if it did. Through a process of trial and error I came up with how much of the URL to include, as IMDB would actually flag a problem with what I included.

Hello @deeflee, I see that the list has been blocked because it breaches our policies. Please take into consideration that lists that include: • Lists containing external (non-IMDb) URLs • Lists containing information relating to minors or personal data • Objectionable language in list titles/descriptions are in breach of our policies and will be automatically blocked.

Hi Jon. The relevant policy would be the external URLs. My list has 100s of incomplete URLs, almost entirely for Wikipedia entries (because I was trying not to trip up any IMDB prohibitions on this). So, it would take me ages to remove each partially complete URL for a specific entry on my list. The Wikipedia entries are entirely encyclopaedic and intended to be informative for those who seek to learn more about the entries in my list. I would be surprised if I wasn't in good standing on IMDB and my URLs don't direct to any malicious sites, so, would it be possible to escalate this issue in order to allow my post to go live? Is there a way of removing 'objectionable' URLs in an efficient way as an alternative? I.e. I don't want to do 100s of these one at a time, for each entry in my list. As I mentioned previously, there are no reasons provided by IMDB as to why my list is blocked, even though it appears as public when I am logged in.

Hello deeflee, Thank you for your message. While I understand the links might not re-direct to malicious websites, it's our policy to disallow external URLs (non-IMDb links) in List titles, descriptions, and notes (i.e., item descriptions). You can still include links to other IMDb pages in all List fields. For more information please see our Lists FAQ: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/lists-faq/GNQMN47VZSE7KW38?ref_=helpsrall# Regarding editing your lists; the fastest option would be through a computer or mobile browser. By selecting the Edit option on your list, you'll be able to go through all text boxes faster and select any external URL and delete it.

Hi Jolene. My list is to do with songs, so the partial URLs that I've provided for each entry in my list doesn't compete with IMDB entries as IMDB don't have the kind of information that I am alluding to. Since my list has literally hundreds of entries, the Edit button for each entry would take me an extremely long time to remove the URLs that I have for each entry. What's annoying about this is that the IMDB site actually prevented me from posting full or partial URLs and gave me notice of what the problem was. What I put up was not prevented and I certainly wouldn't have carried on for hundreds of entries if it didn't seem allowable by IMDB. This is the kind of policy that wasn't enforced before, perhaps prior to Amazon taking over IMDB. It's the kind of policy that I could imagine being reversed at some later point in any case. As I say, the partial URLs for each entry are all for Wikipedia, which is clearly not a suspect site and my intent is not to provide competing URLs for what is available on IMDB, as they are not comparable. Since the solution that you provided for removing partial URLs is extremely time consuming, is there some other method that could be employed? By allowing such links, IMDB still has the option for its users to flag or report inappropriate content. I'm sure my list wouldn't fall foul of that and so long as such flagging/reporting wasn't baseless, my list wouldn't be 'problematic' for IMDB. Hoping for some solutions that wouldn't require me spending hours going through hundreds of entries in my list.

Hi deflee - We appreciate your feedback concerning our List policies. As Jon and Jolene have already mentioned, we don't allow any type of external links (full or partial) on lists, and in order for your list to be eligible for display you will need to remove the partial links. I understand your list has a high volume of entries, unfortunately, there is no easy way to bulk remove the links, this will need to be done manually.

Hi Michelle. It's still not clear to me whether my concern has been escalated or not. I feel that if a human were to look at my list, that they would find nothing 'objectionable' about it. Could you let me know if you can actually see the list in question, which is: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls595432428 I know that social media sites which use AI to police their policies frequently incorrectly block posts or users. That's why I feel that having actual people do some monitoring is best policy. My principle feedback if IMDB's policy were to remain, is that it shouldn't allow users to waste their time spending hours compiling a list without making it clear that it's impossible for the list to go live and the reason for this. My list is ready to go live, with its hundreds of links to IMDB's own links as the principle individual entry element. If IMDB did another 180 on this policy, would my list automatically go live?

Hi deeflee - Yes, I was able to see and review your List. I appreciate your detailed feedback regarding the list experience, and I understand your frustration about our current list url policies, especially given the time you've invested in creating your list without directly knowing that we don't allow url's. I have forwarded your concerns about the list approval process and the need for clearer communication about our list policies to the appropriate IMDb team for visibility and review for future improvements.

Hi Michelle. Thanks for that. That list is currently on hold for me as I don't want to have to go through each entry that I've included in it. What's especially disappointing about this situation is that I haven't posted URLs, it's just the bit after www. In other words, there is no hyperlink for people to click and go to another website. Some people have a hyperlink where the target URL and that in the hyperlink are different, usually for malicious purposes. That is not the case here. The URL fragment that I have is plain text and obviously refers to Wikipedia usually, which would be a trusted source, I would imagine. The URL fragments that I included were arrived at by a process of elimination...I tried fragments that included some of the preceding URLs but IMDB clearly flagged those to me. Any chance that my list is blocked due to some other issue than my partial URLs? I can only hope that my list is allowed to go live at some point. Every entry in it is linked to an IMDB page and people could click on the entry images to look at what information that IMDB has about my entries (which is much less than what Wikipedia provides). I'm assuming that my list is a lost cause now?

Hello @deeflee, Thank you for understanding. If there are any changes regarding external links on lists, we'll make sure to let you know.