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Feature Request: MPAA Rating Justifications
geplaatst door RobertJCSTAFFMOD op 31 december 2023 om 3:55 AM
Hi TheMovieDB Team! I would like to recommend a new feature: MPAA rating justifications. What I mean by this is having a list of reasons of why a movie or tv show was rated the way it is. For example when making a call to the API it would return the rating “R” and a list of strings for the reasons such as: “‘violence’, ‘nudity’, ‘crude humor’”. It would also be useful to display this on the website as well (perhaps by hovering over the rating!). This is extremely useful as it allows you to know why content was rated the way it was and allows you to better understand content you may be interested in or to make better decisions on what to watch. It’s also useful for developers using the API who might need such information for their projects! I don’t know if it’s possible to pull this data from somewhere or if it’s not you could rely on good old community members! I hope this is something that can be implemented because it’s been something I’ve looking for a long time!
Reactie van Travis Bell
op 2 januari 2024 om 2:46 PM
Hi @RobertJC, we already do support this for countries with a set list of justifications like Canada, Brazil, Germany, Finland, Greece, Netherlands, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, United States (for TV), Turkey and South Africa.
We don't support it specifically for the U.S. with movies because there is no set list. The MPAA justification data in the U.S. is free form and we couldn't come up with a good way of implementing it in a crowd sourced world because it would have to be a free form field which makes it really hard to maintain accuracy while also keeping it free from abuse.
Reactie van RobertJC
op 3 januari 2024 om 1:08 AM
Ah. I didn’t know that it was freeform in the US. Never the less, I think data like that would be useful. As per this article and some other research the rating justifications usually follow these conventions:
While it would be hard to moderate a completely freeform implementation, I think having those selectable with a modifier of “some, brief, strong, graphic” (which are just a few examples) would be a good solution possibly. Or perhaps only allowing people with a certain amount of edits to be able to adjust those values. Also, a lot of forms such as descriptions, episode details are freeform as well, which in theory, would be exposed to the same level of abuse. I’ll see if I can come up with some better possible implementations though, and I can update this if I come up with any. It is really useful to have. Thanks! @travisbell
Reactie van Travis Bell
op 3 januari 2024 om 10:57 AM
Certification data is a bit different than the rest of TMDB because there can be legal implications to providing invalid data. All of our data policies at TMDB rely on using the factual data from the source (and nothing made up). This is where the problem lies for us. Take a look at some of these:
4 movies with 11 distinct "tags". It balloons out very quickly. Can some of these be distilled down to things like "violence" and "language"? Yes. But is that what they are actually tagged with? No.
We just couldn't land on the correct implementation for this. What we may end up doing is simply coming up with a way to store the MPAA certificates. This way users wouldn't be able to edit the data. It would simply be made available if we have the certificate added to the movie but that was beyond the scope of the original feature.