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So far no one answered my question and my concerns. I am not necessarily picking this particular Genre request. Where does it end and are we supposed to start accounting foir EVERY possibility from Every user that comes down the pike, thus winding up with a total mess at some point, along with data that would be argued incessantly, There comes a point where enough is enough, where is it. Evereybody can rationalize therir facorite choice a Genre just as you did but, do you want to have to dig through 1000 possibilities (which would be all to eay to achieve). As for the fields mentioned, you will NEVER have enough to satisfy everybody, if Ken gave us 10 fields someone would want 11. At some point....

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now that we have custom genres I personally don't care if any more get added to the program itself... I am more then happy using custom genres... I just wish we didn't have the limit of 5 genres per profile.

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1000...extreme, snark? Have you looked at what some others have for genre, in some cases they have folded Genre into a mysterious extra category called keywords, which is nightmarish. I am all for users being able to do what they wish, locally, that is called the tags, even though it does have limitations. i, for one, don't want to burdened an infinite selection of possible genres and the attendant discussioins here over what is or is not correct. For example, Surreal, could also be called Bizarre, and God help us if both were added to the list. I think David Lynch's work typically fits into Bizzarre quite nicely, the man as a director is pretty warped.

What you are looking at essentially is a LOCAL choice, YOU(generic) want something which to YOU seems to be a valid choice, but to others it results in adding an unwanted burden of extra data that they have to plow through, and God help us if it were Contributable data. Thius is one of those areas where no one is ever going to be perfectly happy, there are those that want MORE, there are those like 8Ball who want more AND less  Someone is ALWAYS goinng to find, in some cases ONE SINGLE film that matches aparticular Genre they want to include and worse they may well be the ONLY user in possession of said film, but they will moan about wanting THAT genre included...just for them.

As I said our list is close to perfect right now, I would not have added Disaster to the list since for Contribution most of those fall quite nicely under Drama. Remember that the LIST be it Genre, Countries or Languages, those lists are based on Contributable data, and I, for one don't want to even 100 possible genres selections.

Take for example the Genre of Sports
That could be subdivided into
Baseball
Football
    Teams
    Super Bowl
    Follies
Soccer(Futbol)
Hockey
Basketball
Field Hockey
Fencing
Badminton
Tennis
Swimming
    Synchronized Swimming
Bicycle Racing
etc
etc
etc

Sports ALONE could probably reach 50-100 possibles.

NO THANJ YOU. If I want to do that I will handle the matter locally, I don't want it forced upon me and then have to argue over what is or isn't. The whole thing gives me a headache, I'll take two aspirin a call you in the morning.

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Wow, this seems to be a really hot topic.  While I think there are a few genres that should be added, such as an exercise genre for my workout DVD's, I agree with Skip, we don't need 100 genres to make our point.  Look at how nitpicky it becomes; Horror, Vampires, Cults, Lions and Tigers and Bears.  Next we'll differentiate between adult and porn or cartoons and cartoons not fit for children.

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Wow, this seems to be a really hot topic.  While I think there are a few genres that should be added, such as an exercise genre for my workout DVD's, I agree with Skip, we don't need 100 genres to make our point.  Look at how nitpicky it becomes; Horror, Vampires, Cults, Lions and Tigers and Bears.  Next we'll differentiate between adult and porn or cartoons and cartoons not fit for children.

And here you have the exact reason why I don't contribute anymore and don't care about the database. Adult doesn't equal pornography, the genre "adult" doesn't exist and means absolutly nothing. Not the first time that I say that, but it's always a lost of my time to discuss this.

Although I agree with you that "Adult" is not a genre, rather a classification, IMO that's a petty reason for no longer contributing to or caring about the database .