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Tuesday, October 12th, 2021 6:14 AM

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Blacklist spam review sites?

I've noticed that for almost every popular, new movie, under "Critic/External Reviews", a few spam sites keep posting links to their illegal reposts of professional, copyrighted reviews, possibly as clickbait. For example, I've since deleted:

Is there any way to permanently blacklist these spam sites? I've suggested this in my Explanations when deleting, but their reviews keep popping up. Sometimes they even steal user reviews from IMDb!

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Thanks for your post.

 

I have submitted a cleanup for this data. Please let us know if we missed anything.

 

Regards,

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Thank you @Rida! Is there a way to prevent them for posting again, though, such as a blacklisting of the domain names? The spam is rampant and will simply return.

 

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@dk_schiff​ Hi-

Apologies for the delayed reply and an updated information on this issue. We are working through a backlog of threads.

You are welcome to report them to us through here or by submitting the data corrections accordingly through our online Update form and our editors will take further actions.

Cheers!

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@Maya​ It's a good thing that you are circling back to this thread, but the question hasn't been answered. Is it possible to block/blacklist certain domain names so they can't add a link to External Reviews again?

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Hi @Marco​ -

We can take actions against identified spam domains.  If you have encountered further spam domains that are posing as valid External Reviews, let us know and I can provide them to the appropriate team.

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@Michelle​ Hi Michelle, in my original post I already listed three spam sites that are still active and spamming. Could you ban them please?

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@Michelle​ Thanks for your reply!

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1 year ago

Hi @dk_schiff & All -

My apologies for the delayed response.  I filed a ticket for the appropriate team to review the block request, as soon as I have an update I will confirm here.

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8 months ago

Hi All -

I'm circling back here to thank you again for bringing this spam review sites issue to our attention. I want to assure you that I have logged the reported issue and it is being tracked in our system. However, due to current backlogs, we are unable to prioritize its resolution at this time. I will be closing this thread, however, please know that your feedback in highly valued, and we are committed to revisiting it as soon as possible.