The Movie Database Support
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new website layout: how to see number of voters who rated a movie? (rating)
posted by easypeasySTAFFMOD on February 11, 2017 at 4:16 AM
Congrats to the (new) website design. I have one problem with it: it seems not possible to find out how many people voted / rated a certain movie.
That information is really important since the average of ratings of 10k voters has more weight than the average of 3 voters. I am sure you understand.
If indeed the functionality to see that important information is missing, please consider this post a feature request. It is really important and helps add meaning to your site.
Reply by janar
on February 11, 2017 at 5:24 AM
I second that!
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 11, 2017 at 11:05 AM
I have some plans about how this will be implemented. This was an area I was working on when the whole IMDB thing happened and I haven't had any time to go back to it yet.
Reply by easypeasy
on February 12, 2017 at 10:34 AM
so confirmed regression from the old website. can you up the priority on this?
Reply by easypeasy
on July 5, 2017 at 8:36 AM
another five months passed. is there an update on this?
Reply by Travis Bell
on July 5, 2017 at 10:06 AM
No update. On my list of things to get to.
Reply by MacFly 🇫🇷
on January 19, 2018 at 1:59 AM
Any news on this feature ? please do this :-)
Reply by easypeasy
on March 17, 2018 at 8:22 PM
Ping in this. Imo really important to add needed perspective to the movie ratings.
Reply by Travis Bell
on March 18, 2018 at 12:06 PM
Yup, still planned.
Reply by andrewh30
on March 21, 2018 at 12:32 PM
May I suggest that a film only secures a rating once a total number of users have rated it? This will stop random obscure titles appearing at the top of lists ordered by rating which very likely only appear there on the basis that a couple of people have rated them 5.
Reply by genplant29
on March 21, 2018 at 5:18 PM
andrew, while I understand your point, going that route would be very frustrating for someone like me, who heavily gravitates to very old (as in Silent, 1930s, and 1940s) and minimally-known (for example old shorts from the '30s, '40s, and '50s) movies, that often I'm the only (or maybe one of just 2-3) person who's so far rated whatever. If there were to be required let's say 5 or 10 members rating something before an average rating would show, that would potentially result in a disappointing very long wait, regarding lesser-known titles that simply aren't familiar to or of interest to most TMDb members. Plus, if I'm the only person (or one of just 2-3) who's so far rated something, I do still want to see my (and anyone else's) rating judgement reflected right away - rather than perhaps not till a year or more from now. Keep in mind, too, that many members never do rate titles at all, whether they like or dislike them.
Meanwhile, if the ratings counter shows how many people have voted, that'll make clear how truly representative the shown average rating is.
Reply by andrewh30
on March 21, 2018 at 8:25 PM
That’s fair. But I still don’t see a way to determine how many ratings a film actually holds?
Reply by genplant29
on March 21, 2018 at 9:42 PM
Travis has mentioned that he does have plans to add a quantity indicator. That'll enable us to gauge whether a shown average rating is based on 3 people having voted or if 53+ have.
Reply by vishal8492
on March 31, 2018 at 12:07 PM
Can we contribute to website ? Github/Bitbucket repo ? Would like to get my hands dirty here, I doubt though . @travisbell let me know .
Reply by easypeasy
on February 25, 2019 at 6:14 PM
almost another year since last post in this thread so another ping. @travisbell any news? or if not maybe any option to help others contribute to the code?
Reply by Travis Bell
on February 26, 2019 at 11:37 AM
I have an open ticket for this here. You can watch or vote on it if you wish.
It's still on deck.