Goodreads has a “quotes” feature where quotes from an author will be listed on their page, and users can hit “like” and then that quote will show up on the person’s profile.
It would be really cool if something like this was implemented here, too!
Where would that “data” come from? That would be the biggest issue because most of the data that Trakt uses comes directly from TMDB API so the developers would have to find some other kind of database that contains this kind of data (TMDB doesn’t).
Also, Goodreads if for books which 99% of the time is credited to a single Author. For Trakt, who would we be quoting? Directors? Actors? Production companies? Seems like a logical nightmare (I’m a web developer too) to make this work…although it’s not a bad idea if the Trakt developers could figure out a good enough architecture to build it.
In Goodreads, the Quotes data comes from users (and authors, who are also users, just verified). Users can submit quotes, and like them.
There’s no real quality control so the same quote can appear a gazillion times, unless something was changed.
I would imagine a quote section on Trakt working with quotes belonging to the movie/episode, tagged with which characters said the quote, and the people pages (actor who portrays character, director and writers etc) pulling from there.
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Seems like there’s QuoDB and PopMystic but they are more of a quote search than rate or sort by popularity.
Sorry, I meant quotes from movies and shows, like marr is saying. I understand there wouldn’t be any specific database to pull from, but maybe quotes could be added manually and then “approved” by someone before being posted. Food for thought.
QuoDB seems like a fine example of what I’m going for.