Looking at some of the pages connected to title pages has become rather exhausting of late. Why? Because every second line on the page asks "Is this relevant?" or "Is this interesting?". The trivia and keywords pages are perfect examples of what I mean. For every bit of trivia there's a question "Is this interesting?", and for keywords it's just laughable; two columns of keyword with the question "Is this relevant?" beneath each word in each column, literally making the page twice as long as it has to be.
What I'd like to know is; why do you want to know? For my own part, I'm not letting you know, but I'll let you know this instead; those pages have become far less interesting to look at overall due to the clutter of irrelevant/annoying repeated questions, and pages I used to enjoy visiting are now something I can't be bother to look at at all unless I really "have" to.
I put it to you, if a keyword is irrelevant there are many other ways of solving that problem than adding a link beneath each word on the page, this site being one of them. I don't really care how many people have found a bit of trivia interesting in the past either, but that at least I can somewhat understand the reasoning of, but there really aught to be other, more discreet ways of conveying that information, or even hide it for those who doesn't want it.
What I'd like to know is; why do you want to know? For my own part, I'm not letting you know, but I'll let you know this instead; those pages have become far less interesting to look at overall due to the clutter of irrelevant/annoying repeated questions, and pages I used to enjoy visiting are now something I can't be bother to look at at all unless I really "have" to.
I put it to you, if a keyword is irrelevant there are many other ways of solving that problem than adding a link beneath each word on the page, this site being one of them. I don't really care how many people have found a bit of trivia interesting in the past either, but that at least I can somewhat understand the reasoning of, but there really aught to be other, more discreet ways of conveying that information, or even hide it for those who doesn't want it.
Posted 6 years ago
Dan Dassow, Champion
Nic Bachhuber, Employee
Thank you for your feedback regarding the addition of quality voting for
keywords. Based on it, we recently modified the layout to reduce the prominence
of this new feature, while still retaining the core ability to vote.
As I’m sure you all know, keywords are a valuable source of
content, which has numerous potential uses such as enhanced search,
recommendations, sub-classifications etc. Unfortunately, in its current
state, it is also a bit of a mess. For Stars Wars IV, keywords such as
“princess”, and “empire” were lost amongst items such as “foot race” and
“lifting an adult up into the air”. Also, The Godfather is currently the most
popular Christmas movie of all time. By enabling keyword quality voting, we
will be able to better classify and sort this valuable data, laying the
foundation for future potential enhancements. That being said, we
appreciate your feedback and hope the new changes to the keyword and trivia
pages makes voting less intrusive.
Thanks,
Nic
(Edited)
Thank you. It's a huge improvement visually, although the pages still feel far longer than the need to be. I see you also fixed the double clicking of the links of the keywords, which is also a big plus. Currently the links on Movie Connections pages doesn't work at all, though, not for me anyway (tested in Chrome and Internet Explorer), but I hope you're already looking into that, and I guess it's a separate matter...
I see the point in weighing the keywords for a movie, though. How about reducing the spacing, and have the relevance links in one column and the keywords in the other, instead of two columns of both as it currently is? For those of us who are only interested in the keywords, regardless of the relevance, having them all in one column instead of two would - I think - help the accessibility of the page, and with only one column to focus on the relevance links next to it wouldn't be intrusive.
I see the point in weighing the keywords for a movie, though. How about reducing the spacing, and have the relevance links in one column and the keywords in the other, instead of two columns of both as it currently is? For those of us who are only interested in the keywords, regardless of the relevance, having them all in one column instead of two would - I think - help the accessibility of the page, and with only one column to focus on the relevance links next to it wouldn't be intrusive.
Dan Dassow, Champion
Hi Nic Bachhuber and cartman_1337,
I agree with cartman that placing the keywords in one column with the relevance next to it will make the list easier to read.
Rather than making the change, I recommend that you post images of prototype solutions in this thread, so that IMDb users can help refine the how keywords are displayed.
I agree with cartman that placing the keywords in one column with the relevance next to it will make the list easier to read.
Rather than making the change, I recommend that you post images of prototype solutions in this thread, so that IMDb users can help refine the how keywords are displayed.
cartman_1337
Dan Dassow, Champion
I found this thread with a complaint about the "Is this relevant?" feature for key words:
Keyword section has a NEW IRRITATING/OBTRUSIVE FEATURE RE: relevancy:
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/keyword-section-has-a-new-irritating-obtrusive-feature-re-re...
Col Needham had this response 2 weeks ago:
I have to agree that the current display for keywords is much less than optimal. Here is an example for
The Shawshank Redemption
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111161/keywords