I hate all posters that are not title + tagline only, but unfortunately they are not disallowed, even not if a title-only one exists and is uploaded ;-)

Guess we just have to downvote them!

On your client side if you dislike them, you can always choose to override them with another poster of your choice (at least for Plex).

I also found movies where people deliberately changed a perfectly alright cover to another language, English mostly of course, so their ugly FSK cover would be top spot or the only one for German language. I can't understand WHY anyone in the right mind wants to do this.

What movies are they? Is the German title the same as the original (mostly English ) title? Then the title-only poster should be in English, and no duplicates in other languages are allowed. So only posters with localised content (website URL, German distributor logo, FSK logo) would be in German.. It's sad but true. We cannot tag posters with multiple language, so the original beats everything.

Yes. The title is very often identical. It's quite strange seeing this development here on TMDB.

A lot of Blu-ray and DVD covers are flip covers in Germany. Because these stupid ratings are mandatory by law and most people HATE them. That's why they can just flip the cover of their BD/DVD Box and have a nice and clean movie cover in their collection. That's why I can't understand why people deliberately upload covers with this German FSK crap. I could quote dozens of movies where we had nice and clean German covers in the past but now they are replaced by these ugly ones. F.e. these two: "Independence Day" and "Dark City". Their english covers are valid covers for Germany as well, since you will be getting them when you buy the DVD/Blu-ray. You can double check on Amazon.de if you like. Anyhow, TMDB now has two ugly covers with FSK, DVD logo and such. That's just said. And I think TMDB needs tougher rules on this.

As for me, I'm using HTPC's with Kodi. So yes, I can select any cover I like. Anyhow, it's annoying to do this manually on so many movies. That's unnecessary work I and probably many other users have to do, because of people not caring and uploading these crappy covers...

It's quite strange seeing this development here on TMDB.

It's not a development, it's always been the case that original language gets dibs on "naked" posters.

I could quote dozens of movies where we had nice and clean German covers in the past but now they are replaced by these ugly ones. F.e. these two: "Independence Day" and "Dark City".

Could also be because some users deliberately uploaded duplicates and tagged them as German. We delete/move them to English on sight though. Users are not forbidden to contribute correct posters whether they include the company logos, cast names, crew names, or parental guidance logos, you know. If you don't like the data for your client, override it. If you don't want to do that... well, guess you should change your settings to pull English data/covers OR posters from the original country of release, if that is possible..... Be a bit more creative

@alltimemarr said: Users are not forbidden to contribute correct posters whether they include the company logos, cast names, crew names, or parental guidance logos, you know.

From the contribution bible:

There should be no watermarks or logos on the images. ... Poster should not contain banners for special releases (e.g. Widescreen, Blu-ray or DVD) if the same image without a banner is already available.

Well, that's were I was wrong. I guess. I always thought it is NOT allowed to upload posters with these logos. Or maybe I don't understand these 'rules' correctly...

Watermarks or logos, as in logos from sites like... JustJared, logos that aren't part of the original poster but just from some media blog that wants exposure when users share the movie posters XD.

Logos from production companies are part of the poster, but it true that could be listed more clearly, I'll update it to include "that aren't part of the original poster", maybe with an example poster!

// UPDATE: Help, in which part of the bible did you find it, I can't find it at first glance, at least not here, oh wait I got it, it's here, haha!

// UPDATE2: Done! It now reads

There should be no watermarks or logos on the images that aren't part of the original image (e.g. don't upload this image but choose this one instead). Logos of production companies and distributors that are part of the original poster are fine to add.