Comments on: At Long Last… Import Your IMDb Ratings

By: sengir

sengir — Sat, 18 Feb 2012 10:52:00 +0000

Tried it, it has overwritten some of my ratings, so the already ranked/ignore function doesn’t seem to work perfectly yet.

By: seito

seito — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:20:56 +0000

Wow, that timing was just barely off wasn’t it?

Thanks for posting in the import imdb.com ratings feature request thread too, as when you do a google search for “criticker IMDB vote import” that page is the number one result.

This was definitely what was holding me back from checking you guys out, but no more!

By: hamletello

hamletello — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 15:49:12 +0000

this is a very useful and great tool.

if other personal lists(those were not rated yet) at imdb could be imported, it would be greater. then, our old imdb lists can be converted to criticker collections easily.

By: mpowell

mpowell — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:41:44 +0000

Thanks for those notes — we also realized that we’ll need to better handle imports of giant numbers of rankings. So, a few tweaks will be coming over the next few days.

By: PeaceAnarchy

PeaceAnarchy — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 09:12:31 +0000

Oh, and the import collection seems to be set to private but not hidden. It should probably be hidden.

By: peaceanarchy

peaceanarchy — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:59:00 +0000

Just imported my rankings, a couple of quick notes.

The list is great, but it’d be nice to bea able to sort it by the third column so all the new rankings get bunched together and the films not in the database get bunched together. Ctrl-F makes this not a big deal but it’d be nice.

For the submit film link, I think that the tt number should be converted to a link to imdb, so people can easily identify what the film is.

Before you do that, though, there are two issues that will come up.
One is that some imdb entries have two entries on Criticker. Apocalypse Now and The Exorcist are the two I noticed. I think right now those both map to the redux versions, which may not be the best behaviour.

The second is that some films have changed imdb ids from those on criticker. I’m not sure how server intensive fixing that would be or how many films it affects, but I found five in my ratings. My thought would be to query all the imdb and check if imdb redirects them, and fix those that are redirected. In the meantime I’ll submit the changes for those films I’ve found.

Those are pretty minor things and it seems to work great. Wish this had been here when I joined. Good job.

By: mpowell

mpowell — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:23:26 +0000

For new users (or those with less than 10 rankings), it simply multiplies the IMDB score by 10. 1 = 10, 2 = 20, and so on. And it skips films which aren’t in the database (actually, providing a link to the Submit Film page, in case the importer is so inclined).

That’s an interesting idea about allowing users to pre-map the rating conversion. We’ll think about that.

By: peaceanarchy

peaceanarchy — Wed, 15 Feb 2012 08:13:47 +0000

This is great news.

How will it assign ratings to people who have new accounts and don’t have tiers yet?

How will it deal with films not in the database?

The collection idea is a good one, though maybe allowing users to designate what the imdb rating should convert to before the import is an option that would be worth implementing in the future. I know my own imdb scores do not correspond to my tiers and I doubt most people’s do.