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Monday, May 15th, 2023 7:11 PM

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Harassment/Page Vandalism

A former acquaintance is editing pages related to film projects that mention me by name, revising the synopsis, character details, and even poster art -- all in order to demean me.  They have just created a new page in an effort to continue harassing me.

Please help me undo the vandalism he was somehow able to add/contribute.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26694897/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27727088/?ref_=nm_knf_t_2

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27744333

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1 year ago

Hi @ForumUser2023 & All -

My apologies for the delayed response, just circling back here.  For clarification on the current status - I can confirm that the title pages were reinstated as we later determined the titles do in fact exist and are eligible to be listed on the site, however, they were heavily vandalized.  We removed all the bad data from the title pages. I can also confirm that the User review reported by @mbmb has since been removed.

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@Michelle​ Yes, they seem fine now after cleanups (more like transformation), but your initial decision to remove them was indeed correct because they were pretty much something else at that time, even title texts were different, so you didn't remove anything factual because nothing was factual on them anyway. But those transformed pages look OK now. It looks like your steps are working for once, or the harasser got tired, because he doesn't seem to be continuing.

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I just want to say thank you to everyone here. It's been a nightmare, and continues to be. I just wish Twitter, Facebook, Reddit, and Instagram were half as helpful as you've been. I'm grateful.

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Hi @ForumUser2023 -

Thanks for your report.  The title pages you referenced have been removed from the site, we have also taken measures to help prevent further vandalism to your page.

Cheers!

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@Michelle

"The title pages you referenced have been removed from the site".

I still see them, so something has gone wrong....

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@Marco​ That's interesting. I remember they were deleted when Michelle posted this reply. It seems the vandal privately convinced staff to reinstate the pages. Why they even listen to such a vandal in the first place is a question that comes to mind.

Edit: I see much of the obvious vandalism was cleaned from the pages (like images, character names, plots, and title texts), so that's probably how he was able to do it. I see now he's trying to harass the OP in more subtle ways, like harassment reviews with newly created accounts like this:

https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9090128/ (reported: 230606-234350-329004)

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Thanks for looking out guys.  This is why I opted to have the pages taken down completely - this person will continue to use any public place my name appears to attack me, as long as they get to remain anonymous while doing it.

I honestly don't think IMDB could ever predict this scenario, but I don't think it's fair to rely on the community to police what will likely always be a place for this person to rage at me. 

They are someone I once knew, but all I really know now is that they are unwell and focused on me. I've been NC with them for 7 years. They've gone after me on Reddit and elsewhere, not just here.

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@ForumUser2023​ There was also harassment on TMDB and Letterboxd. I reported it to both, TMDB cleaned up all the vandalism, Letterboxd is still pending, should be handled in a few days.