Minimum Number of Characters to Write a Review

@laduqesa​ It can't be serious, you have no capacity to write more than 100 characters here.

@rlwieneke​ You clearly prefer the sort of review that says "Great film and acting. Loved the music". i'm ecstatic that this sort of guff can no longer pollute the review section. This is not my problem that people have short attention spans. 

@laduqesa​ Look friend, the main thing is: nobody here wants to ban the big reviews or impose a low maximum number of characters. You can have it, but we, objective writers and readers don't care about what you prefer at all, we just want the freedom to write and read what we consider necessary and not waste time with junk, that's exactly the point about the reviews, to avoid the trash content and advise people about it.

Anyone could still choose what kind of text they consider more useful.

The question is, why exclude very interested people from producing helpful material for some others???

I would like to know what @Michelle and @Vic think about it. The official rules I already know.

@laduqesa​ It's so funny you CAN'T even write 2 different short sentences without repeating yourself my friend...

This appears to be the case, because a site that only allows positive reviews is one you know you can't trust.

@Thanatos0042​ I have to disagree here my reviews being negative or positive they are short, I don't want to go deep and spoil or being too personal, what I want from a review are few impressions that just brief enough for me to decide if it interests me or not, if it's worths my precious time.

If I want an analisys about a movie I search for professional critics job not bunch of crazy cinephiles

I'm not sure what we are disagreeing about? I believe the 600 character limit is to dissuade people from writing reviews. I prefer short reviews too, to get to the point. Very rarely do I want a long review - though I can certainly write them if required.

and I'd never really look for a professional critic, paid by the word and paid for certain reviews. That being said, lots of crazy fan reviewers out there too. I always take it all with a grain of salt when it comes to reviews.

Actually I got what you said and it's an intelligent way of seeing what's happening, truly the crazy fans will probably be inclined to write bigger texts than the ones who didn't like a media and will give up to try to develop a longer review. But still it's totally frustrating, I mean I can get really valuable informations in a negative review, the IMDB staff should worry only with offensive stuff, and opinions should be judge by helpful or not buttons!

It's very upsetting, writing reviews is a great hobby for many.

4 times what it was is unacceptable!! Why not 300 to see how it works??

I hope to see this site wither due to such disrespect for those who dedicate themselves to feed this platform.

IMDB stay with your long and big pieces of garbage! I'm gonna write for my own social circle, you go to hell!! You can shove this huge chunks up to yourselves!

I agree, I think they over did it, I think a situation of "by degrees" might have worked better. But one thing you can often count on is over-reaction.

I only hope things go downhill for as long as they are dishonest and deceptive with regards to reviews and rating.  Not every bad review is "review bombing" and not every good review is legitimate. There are bots on both sides of the issue.

600 characters

@Peter_pbn​ I meant to write characters. Thanks for the correction. My observation remains the same.

@stimpy_tr​ 

A review must be helpful, mustn't it? Too long reviews usually are not. 600 characters mean a very long review, which I seldomly read.

@stimpy_tr​ 

 I was reading recent reviews from some other users and found these:

You seem to be against the new threshold of 600 characters, but the two reviews you link to are very good examples of why a minimum number of characters is needed. They are, honestly, pretty bad.

@Marco Of course, I am against it. Haven't you read the third one I gave? The guy received 1494 Likes with a 300 character review.

@stimpy_tr​ I have read the third one you gave. I personally don't consider it a good review. The reason is because I feel a review should not just tell me IF someone liked a movie or not but also WHY. And some information about the movie would be nice to have as well. This review just tells me a bunch of people liked this film very much. I'm happy they liked it, but it doesn't tell me if I'd like this film or not because the writer hardly gives us any concrete information about the film or about the good or not so good elements of it and why they are good or not so good elements. Why do you consider it a good review?

I fail to see why the fact that quite some people have given this review a thumb's up should matter one way or the other. I assume that a lot of these people simply liked this film and were voting up because this person is also very positive about this film. If that's the case, they haven't really voted for the review itself I feel.

Well, any viable alternative would necessitate the involvement of machine learning algorithms.

@nessun​ No, they don't. There are one-off answers from IMDb employees stating company policy - that is it. 

Thank you for your reply. In this case there is no use to discuss further. 

Hi, nessun. I don't know if you noticed, but the founder of IMDb did finally post on this thread, and his take away is that the people complaining about this increase of limit believe that numbers of characters mean numbers of words. I find such a response to be akin to gaslighting.

@FilmCritic10​ This way over the top post of yours suggests you think I work for IMDb, so perhaps it's worth pointing out that I do not work for IMDb.

​@Marco​

I never said you work for IMDb, but you and @laduqesa are the only ones with that exclusionary, sectarian, sad attitude to be advocating for the extermination of approximately 90% reviewers contributions.

As you can see upthread, this new rule has been around since the end of August. The new series about LotR has premiered September 1st. It currently has 3,765 reviews: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7631058/reviews

Dahmer premiered September 21st and currently has 343 reviews: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt13207736/reviews

Even if the new rule does cut the number of reviews way down, how many reviews do you need for a particular title? How many do you read before deciding whether or not you wanna see a certain title? 

Why is it so costly for any employee to answer or discuss properly at least for fun and respect for some devoted members here?

@Marco​ I just deluded myself that you were an active member trying to help some way.

But it seems I was wrong.

@FilmCritic10​ 

the extermination of approximately 90% reviewers contributions.

We both don't have the (exact) stats, but I really don't think it's as high as about 90%.

I just deluded myself that you were an active member trying to help some way.

I'm not on this board daily and recently was on a 1,5 week holiday, so perhaps I'm not as active as you might have thought. That being said, I think we have to agree to disagree on this particular issue. Most short reviews I see on IMDb I consider to be bad or even very bad, so I think it's a good idea IMDb has raised the number of characters needed for a review.