We just deployed the first iteration of a new addition to TVmaze: upvotes and downvotes.
Recently there has been a lot of discussion about the quality and suitability of uploaded (show/episode) images. We're trying to tackle this partly by a more strict policy, but this'll only get us so far, since this is a pretty subjective matter.
To close that gap, it's now possible to vote (upvote or downvote) on show & episode images like here: https://www.tvmaze.com/shows/69/the-blacklist/gallery. Right now the vote results are merely displayed on that page and don't have any impact yet, but please go ahead and start upvoting images that you think are particularly suitable and downvote images that you consider to be bad quality. After a couple of weeks of voting we'll evaluate and discuss how we can use this voting data exactly. Some possibilities are sorting the images by the amount of upvotes, hiding images after a certain amount of downvotes, or perhaps even automatically set the highest voted image as main image.
While we were at it, we also added upvotes for forum posts and comments. The same goes here, right now the vote count doesn't have any effect yet, but we'll look into using it in the future. Possible options could be highlighting the most upvoted post in a forum thread so people who ask a question can quickly recognize the most useful answer; or hiding posts under a certain threshold to combat spam or trolling.
