This is something which has come up a couple of times but there are not any guidelines drafted about it. So here’s an attempt, definitely open for feedback and changes.
Career dates within StashDB have multiple use cases:
- The career start is often used to determine the eligibility of a performer when provided with their birth date. Performers have to be a minimum of 18 years to appear within a scene, so if a scene was produced or released before that age then it indicates that the birth date is not accurate.
- When multiple performers share a common name, it is common for the career dates to be used to determine which performer was in a given scene.
There should never be a situation where a scene is released before the career start of a given performer, in that case the career start should be adjusted to be before the scene was released.
It is possible for scenes to be released after a performer ends their career, the most common situation being a rerelase or redistribution of a scene but this can be a result of studios releasing scenes as a part of a schedule that is significantly after the production date. The career end for a performer should align with the end of their production of scenes, so rereleases of scenes should not result in their career end to be extended.
While OnlyFans and other amateur studios are not eligible for inclusion on StashDB, releases on these platforms after a performer ends their professional career should be considered as a part of their overall career. This includes performers who are actively releasing content on amateur studios who do not need their career end year to be set.
It is highly unusual for a performer’s career end to be the current year (or the past year when at the start of a new year), but there are cases where this happens:
- The performer announces the end of their career, often times on social media. The link to the announcement should be included as a source for the edit when this occurs.
- The death of a performer. The performer’s death date should also be set at this time, and there are no situations where a performer’s career end year should be later than the performer’s death date.
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Should there be any threshold where a performer’s career is assumed to be over? Especially for scenes on casting websites where it can be safely assumed they did not pursue a career in porn?
or should that be considered for a seperate guideline
Unless I’m being blind, the post doesn’t explicitly cover how we should determine the end date. But I infer from the quoted section that performers are assumed inactive after ~1 year, UNLESS an explicit announcement of retirement/death is made in advance of that? Or, rather, 1 calendar year - not 12 months. That is to say: performers who haven’t received a credit since 2024 (or in 2025) are de facto inactive, with no other deliberation necessary?
That should probably be covered in this guideline, but I don’t have any real recommendations as far as making it an exact science. I’m open to suggestions.
Yeah this was written very much so off of vibes from doing 140k+ reviews, recognizing that things are always in flux and nothing has ever been written down about this.
That is to say: performers who haven’t received a credit since 2024 (or in 2025) are de facto inactive, with no other deliberation necessary?
That seems to be the general consensus. If a performer hasn’t had a credit in 6+ months, but had a regular cadence credits before then that was less than 6 months, they’re usually assumed to be inactive. Of course performers come back all the time, and that’s when their career end gets dropped from their profile with proof of them becoming active again.
Part of the reason why I phrased it the way I did in the OP is because the IAFD scraper specifically has a tendency to imply that all performers are inactive because of the way it displays end years. IAFD by default says a performers career went from the year of their first appearance to the year of their last appearance (possibly filtering out compilations, unclear) even when the year of their last appearance was this year. While that’s a very consistent way of displaying it programmatically, StashDB has a static career start/end so having thousands of performers be manually updated at the start of each year is unrealistic and confusing.
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