This is the reason I believe genres should be a local choice only. Now with 3.5 we will be able to have some local... but still have some in the online database as well (not to mention being able to make our own genres).

What I am in the middle of doing is just what you said... making my changes locally then doing something you don't seem to realize you can do... locking them so they don't get overwritten...

just Right click the padlock icon in the General info field... then go to lock... then Genre is about mid way through the list.

I don't understand the purpose of this thread .

Genres are completely subjective and a personal choice. If you believe a genre is blatantly wrong in the online database then submit a profile change.

If you disagree with the genres in your local collection then change them to whatever you think they should be and lock them by right clicking on the title and choose Lock>Genres.

Count me in with 8ball, Skip and Paul.

Genres should be kept local IMO, and I never contribute any changes I make to them anymore, as people have their own interpretation as to what is what (and rightly so). Make your changes - lock them, and don't contribute... 

Here's why I agree with the others that genres should be kept locally ONLY:

Your example:
  10,000BC: Action, Adventure

This may be an action/adventure film but it's clearly sifi or fantasy, I'm going to put it into my sifi section

I TOTALLY disagree with you that this film is sci-fi or fantasy. TO ME fantasy has to involve magic/mythical place or creatures etc.
And Sci-Fi needs to involve science of some description.
(I'm generalising how I catergorize things obviously).

Neither of these apply to 10,000 BC which is a historical film with creatures that actually existed.

Anyway, it just goes to show that we all have DIFFERENT opinions on each genre.

Please change genres to LOCAL ONLY, Ken. Thanks! 

Quoting pauls42:

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just change them to what you want (I do) and then lock them..

Another one for this... I used to just go with the online genres but recently have been doing a lot of 'change locally and lock' because I got very annoyed with different seasons of the same TV series having different genres (or if they are the same then done in a different order); guess I'm just a bit anal about having them match but I doubt I'm alone in this!

I have no idea why you lock them and they change back; they certainly shouldn't so I think yoiu may be doing something wrong there!

FWIW on your comments:

Adams Family... agree sort of it's not Horror but then again I've had big discussions on this before. Traditional horror like Chris Lee Dracula films ae so different from movies like Saw they don't really belong in the same genre to me. Also (and this is a bone of contention!) many users automatically use Horror for anything containing vampires or zombies... to me they have to be intending to 'horrify' and I calss things like Buffy or Blood Ties as 'Fantasy' because the creature are fantastical and there's a 'magic' element.
Still, Adams Family I would call a Comedy Horror, so not a prmary genre but certainly has Horror elements... it's just Comedy Horror is very different from straight Horror and there's no easy way to show this apart from adding both in.

10,000BC - not SF or Fantasy to me; I'm with Pantheon in that it has no mythicall creatures, hi-tech or magic

Billy Elliot - I would never class a film as Family if the rating (in the UK where I am) is 15 (strong language) and I'm sure many (though not all of course) parents would agree... and BTW in the US the theatrical version was rated R so definitley not Family fare!

Bridge to Terabithia - it's a PG, Family seems reasonable to me. Not all kids family have to be 'happy happy', it sepends how the sad elements are handled. I personally haven't seen it but I would say if this isn't Family then neither is Bambi!

Casanova - Depends on the version! I would say the David Tennant TV version definitely had Romantic elements and yes, I would add it in... other versions are about a man obsessed with sex, not necessarily love. Any no, IMO, the version I've seen is NOT a chick-flick!

The Cell - Yep, I would class this as Horror and the BBFC agrees (Rated 18 for Sci-Fi horror and Violence)

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Quoting Voltaire53:

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10,000BC - not SF or Fantasy to me; I'm with Pantheon in that it has no mythicall creatures, hi-tech or magic

Same, Scifi and Fantasy are blatantly wrong IMO.

another 'same' here. Not SF / Fantasy

Quoting m.cellophane:

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Please don't make Genres local only. Sure, there are disagreements, but genres are rarely at issue in contributions (certainly not to the level of years ago before we could vote on contributions). There's no need to throw all of them out of the main db simply because they don't meet our individual needs. I'd rather change some of them in my local to my preferences than to have to enter them all locally. It's much less work to change a few than it is to enter them all.

I don't think anyone was wanting them all to be local - rather that changes to them should be kept local..

WOW!

Now this is fun, everyone with their on opinion, interpreting my original post differently, i love it!

Point 1:

Personal preference on genres should be kept locally, agree, to many different opinions not too.

Point 2:

Part of my frustration is that, it's a lot of work to go through my collection and change every other movie to a genre of my choice (over 900 titles) but i think I'm going to do it anyway.

Point 3:

Your right, i must be doing something wrong with the locking of my genre choices, but I'm going to figure it out!

Point  4:

"I don't understand the purpose of this thread." WHO CARES? I've seen some really stupid posts in these forums, but you don't see me critisizing their right to post whatever they want too!