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Highest-voted poster is not the default poster
posted by tmdb15214618STAFFMOD on June 24, 2020 at 10:29 AM
https://www.themoviedb.org/movie/20481-nightbreed
The highest-voted English Nightbreed poster is a green and white one, but the red poster is the one used for the main page of the movie.
I looked through the rules and I see that mods choose to "sticky" a poster if it's the one without superfluous text, but in this case there's no reason to sticky the red poster over the green poster.
I know this seems like a small gripe, and maybe it is, but it's a continuation of my previously raised issue with images--that it's not clear why images are or are not used on the movie's main page. Do with this information what you want.
Reply by lineker
on June 24, 2020 at 11:59 AM
Hi, I think the reason for this choice is that the poster you want has a "Clive Barker's" added just above the title, which means it's not a fit per the rules.
Reply by tmdb15214618
on June 24, 2020 at 12:54 PM
Ah, I didn't see that scribble was text. But according to Wikipedia, the movie has been called three different things: "Nightbreed", "Night Breed" on publicity material, and "Clive Barker's Nightbreed". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nightbreed So it should be fit anyway.
Reply by lineker
on June 24, 2020 at 12:59 PM
Yes, but typically we would never use an alternative title for the default poster. However, I added 'Clive Barker's Nightbreed' as an alternative title since it was missing.