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Post by fritzelly on Feb 26, 2017 1:31:04 GMT
As the title... How much of IMDb was user generated?
How many people do you think they were employing to update/add all the stuff on the site and how much of it was user generated - not talking about reviews and stuff but cast members, credits, trivia etc
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Post by Utpe on Feb 26, 2017 1:43:38 GMT
I would have to say a majority of them were unpaid volunteers. IMDb depended upon contributions from people all over the world, much like Wikipedia.
Now that the boards cease to exist, I'm sure those volunteers went elsewhere. I wouldn't lift a finger to help them improve that site after what they did.
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Post by fritzelly on Feb 26, 2017 1:51:50 GMT
I know they had a lot of approved contributors - just no real idea of how many and how much was paid for content
Be interesting to see what if anything happens over the coming months
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Post by GlennME on Feb 26, 2017 11:56:19 GMT
I know they had a lot of approved contributors - just no real idea of how many and how much was paid for content Be interesting to see what if anything happens over the coming months Way back in the early days of the message boards, a poster who became a good friend was one of the top 20 contributors. He was an "approved" contributor, meaning his alterations and additions were made with little or no questioning from the admin. However, he was not paid. The only perk was getting his screen name "up in lights" as a major contributor. There was a lot of competition from the army of contributors to be listed in the top 20. However, after a few years, he tired of it, and wound down his work on the database. Presumably a younger and more enthusiastic contributor took his place, hoping to see their name "up in lights" too. At the same time I quickly learned that practically no information contributed by me was ever accepted by the admin. So, I simply gave gave up, and passed the information to him.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 26, 2017 14:41:08 GMT
As the title... How much of IMDb was user generated? How many people do you think they were employing to update/add all the stuff on the site and how much of it was user generated - not talking about reviews and stuff but cast members, credits, trivia etc I do wonder what this did to the hard core community of volunteers that were the heart and soul of the content. One would have to think there is still a method of communication between them, but without interactions with the larger, now exiled, community, with no "new blood" such an experience would tend to grow stale pretty quickly.
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Post by alpha128 on Feb 26, 2017 15:26:43 GMT
I think most of the trivia, movie connections, goofs, and memorable quotes were user submissions.
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Post by Xcalatë on Mar 1, 2017 15:28:30 GMT
60% i think
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Post by Flynn on Mar 1, 2017 16:33:09 GMT
As the title... How much of IMDb was user generated? How many people do you think they were employing to update/add all the stuff on the site and how much of it was user generated - not talking about reviews and stuff but cast members, credits, trivia etc I do wonder what this did to the hard core community of volunteers that were the heart and soul of the content. One would have to think there is still a method of communication between them, but without interactions with the larger, now exiled, community, with no "new blood" such an experience would tend to grow stale pretty quickly. For years now, I have regularly submitted updates to IMDb. I mostly focused on keywords and plots. I think keywords are very important because they are the key to finding that long-forgotten film. You remember a knife and that the movie was in black and white. Well, that's enough to at least narrow down the selection to a thousand movies, but you have to have that keyword registered. You just never know what someone might remember from a film, so it's important to be thorough, and I was (within reason). About 95% of the "electronic music score" keyword entries are my doing. I never made the top 250, but I did receive emails from Col Needham on New Year's Day thanking me for my contributions for a few years because I had registered enough to be noticed. Since the message boards went down, I don't have the heart to continue my efforts. I'm not happy with them at the moment.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 18:41:22 GMT
Imdb can kiss my hairy butthole.
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Post by Xcalatë on Mar 1, 2017 19:24:58 GMT
I do wonder what this did to the hard core community of volunteers that were the heart and soul of the content. One would have to think there is still a method of communication between them, but without interactions with the larger, now exiled, community, with no "new blood" such an experience would tend to grow stale pretty quickly. For years now, I have regularly submitted updates to IMDb. I mostly focused on keywords and plots. I think keywords are very important because they are the key to finding that long-forgotten film. You remember a knife and that the movie was in black and white. Well, that's enough to at least narrow down the selection to a thousand movies, but you have to have that keyword registered. You just never know what someone might remember from a film, so it's important to be thorough, and I was (within reason). About 95% of the "electronic music score" keyword entries are my doing. I never made the top 250, but I did receive emails from Col Needham on New Year's Day thanking me for my contributions for a few years because I had registered enough to be noticed. Since the message boards went down, I don't have the heart to continue my efforts. I'm not happy with them at the moment. I know what you mean I have been consciously avoiding anything IMDb since the killed the boards and don't plan on going back there any time soon.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 21:13:31 GMT
I too contributed to adding new titles, meta data/info and man it has a long process for a new title!
Today, was the first day since forums closing, that I went to imdb. That was because of a poster asking for a movie and a reply linked a movie I had, but not yet seen. One of the biggest reasons I looked up movies there was to see the ratings (which I usually found reliable if not tampered with) and to see what people said about it. I've never cared to read critic reviews. I want to know what avg people say about it and what news they have.
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Post by persistenceofvision on Mar 1, 2017 21:42:35 GMT
I have this theory... a whole load of the contributors were message-boards users, and the amount of stuff getting contributed by these users (trivia, etc.) is now going to take a sharp drop. So contributions will increasingly be written by professionals promoting movies for some company, and will be more and more fawningly uncritical, adding to the overall soullessness of the site.
My predictions have a habit of not coming true, by the way.
I think IMDb encapsulates the internet: built by enthusiasts, taken over by corporations.
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Post by shawshanked on Mar 1, 2017 21:42:44 GMT
Probably most of it. I'm half tempted to try and delete everything I contributed. I wonder what they would do if a lot of their site material suddenly vanished.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 22:01:51 GMT
I do wonder what this did to the hard core community of volunteers that were the heart and soul of the content. One would have to think there is still a method of communication between them, but without interactions with the larger, now exiled, community, with no "new blood" such an experience would tend to grow stale pretty quickly. For years now, I have regularly submitted updates to IMDb. I mostly focused on keywords and plots. I think keywords are very important because they are the key to finding that long-forgotten film. You remember a knife and that the movie was in black and white. Well, that's enough to at least narrow down the selection to a thousand movies, but you have to have that keyword registered. You just never know what someone might remember from a film, so it's important to be thorough, and I was (within reason). About 95% of the "electronic music score" keyword entries are my doing. I never made the top 250, but I did receive emails from Col Needham on New Year's Day thanking me for my contributions for a few years because I had registered enough to be noticed. Since the message boards went down, I don't have the heart to continue my efforts. I'm not happy with them at the moment. Sorry that this has happened. For someone like myself, that really only contributed through some ratings and message board use, this is one thing. But for those like you, who contributed to the content that they have kept, if there wasn't some area within IMDb for those who really worked to build the site to continue to be a community, that's just wrong.
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Post by Deleted on Mar 1, 2017 22:24:22 GMT
I think the prediction have merit. I remember in the game, Ultima Online, their used to be these GM player live events. At times the company would use volunteer gamers to run these ingame live content events. After years of this, eventually people started to sue the company, demanding payment! It was ruled in the peoples favor, that they were owed money paid because the game company is for profit. This was the end of those fun events for many years in the US. But on Asian servers, where laws differ, they continued. It was long ago but that was echoed by people as I was learning business, to always pay people even if it is $1! To safeguard yourself.
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Post by alpha128 on Mar 2, 2017 0:02:24 GMT
I have been consciously avoiding anything IMDb since the killed the boards and don't plan on going back there any time soon. Me too. Now if I provide a link to a particular film in a post, I link to Wikipedia instead the IMDb.
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Post by Xcalatë on Mar 3, 2017 11:03:35 GMT
I have been consciously avoiding anything IMDb since the killed the boards and don't plan on going back there any time soon. Me too. Now if I provide a link to a particular film in a post, I link to Wikipedia instead the IMDb. Same Here. I use Wikipedia or TMDb.
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