IMDb Highest Rated Titles ??????????

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I've just gone to the page for The Shawshank Redemption, and while there, decided to check out the other Top 250 movies.

On the Watchlist drop down menu I clicked on IMDb Top 250 but was directed to a page called Highest Rated Titles.

The items at the top of the list include:

Touchdown (2012 Short Film) - no rating

Poetry Betwixt Friendship (2012 Short Film) - no rating

Moises Rules! (2009 TV Series) - no rating

Breaking Bad (2008 TV Series) - 10 rating

Grand Theft Auto V (2013 Video Game) - 9.8 rating

How can a link called IMDb top 250 lead to this list, and how can items with no rating appear on any sort of "Top" list?

The real Top 250 Movies link is buried under Movies, TV & Showtimes/Charts &Trends/ Top 250, so why not either move it to the Watchlist drop down or rename the link located in the Watchlist drop down to avoid confusion.

GlennME

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not surprised by the lack of response

Posted 7 years ago

7 years ago

Emperor, Champion

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I can't seem to replicate this.

There is a "Top 250 #1" link above he fold, that takes you to the Top 250.

There is no such link under the Watchlist button on the main navigation bar at the top or when I use the drop down from the big yellow Watchlist button.

Can you take a screenshot?

7 years ago

GlennME

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Here's a screenshot of me holding the Watchlist drop down menu open.

http://gmemail.customer.netspace.net....

When I click on IMDb Top 250 I'm sent here.

http://gmemail.customer.netspace.net....

7 years ago

Emperor, Champion

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Ah right, seems to be the default panels when you've got nothing in your Watchlist, which is why I wasn't seeing it.

It'd be worth dropping a link to this thread into the main one for the redesign:

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi...

It should be an easy fix and the staff behind the redesign watch that thread, so should be alerted to your post.

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7 years ago

Emperor, Champion

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MayorDefacto messages me to to say:

The odd behavior reported by GlennME here, https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topi..., is due to a typo in some of the links from the Watchlist dropdown. In some instances the parameter that selects the top 250 titles appears as

group=top_250
instead of
groups=top_250

When an unrecognized term appears in the search string, it is ignored. So instead of limiting the search to the top 250 titles, all feature titles are included.

Note that I said some of the links. For instance the dropdown on this page as I compose this message has the bad link, while the Watchlist dropdown on the results page for a random name, http://www.imdb.com/find?q=bob+jones&..., or title, http://www.imdb.com/find?q=gone+with+... search has the correct link. Follow either of those search results to an actual title or name page though and the dropdown link there is wrong.