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Minimum Number of Characters to Write a Review

I thought the minimum number of characters to write a review was 150. I'm getting an error message, "Sorry, your review is too short. It needs to contain at least 600 characters." What happened to being succinct, precise/concise, to the point, not wordy?

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FilmCritic10

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3 years ago

@Michelle​ Why don't you guys answer the conversation about Minimum Characters?

What's this community about?

You just totally belittle us users giving a derisive response...

It's sad that IMDB, a platform fed by it's users, just ignores their opinion.

It should be a prolific discussion, but you guys may be very busy. Do you get paid for this mediocre job?? 

No offense, thanks!

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/minimum-number-of-characters-to-write-a-review/630a78bac5eeb86e2c3b056b

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FilmCritic10

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3 years ago

And what about the new minimum number of characters?? 

From 150 to 600 overnight..

It's just a disaster, long reviews are mostly full of spoilers and small talk.

IMDB please reconsider that!!!

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/minimum-number-of-characters-to-write-a-review/630a78bac5eeb86e2c3b056b

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carmendiana

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3 years ago

So are reviews no longer welcomed?

is this the message that IMDB wants to give?

600 characters is crazy long and makes no sense!

there are thumbs up/down votes to highlight quality comments.

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mirza_umair

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3 years ago

There is no option for people like me who want to write/read a short review. I think 200 characters will be sufficient.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Why review 600 character limit is set too high?

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FilmCritic10

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3 years ago

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EternalMoment

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3 years ago

This is completely ridiculous and wrong. Reviews will be useless water instead of what people want to write and want to read.

that was 125 characters to express precisely what we think, by the way

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Laura_B

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3 years ago

I guess at below 600 characters its more of a comment / opinion than a review ?
Thought IMDb was there for film lovers who could easily write the equivalent of the shortest newspaper review about a movie they've seen !

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agof

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@Laura_B​  most movies don't deserve 600 characters

300 maybe.

like, if you don't want to copy the plot that is already written in wikipedia, try to describe any biopic in more than 600 characters without padding

every biopic is exactly the same movie every underdog film is exactly the same movie every talking animal film is exactly the same movie

not also take into consideration that a movie can have absolutely stale cinematography not bad not good utterly unnoticeable and similar invisible soundtrack

what there is left to write about when the movie had less effort put into it than 600 characters

3 years ago

Wrldruler

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3 years ago

I hate this 600 count limit. Small new movies are getting rating votes but no comment reviews because nobody wants to type 600 characters out for 5/10 movie. So I end up having to search Reddit. 

I also don't want to read a huge review for a lame movie. The only words I really need to read in a review are like "Good if you like slashers" or "Slow and boring" or "Stupid but fun".

The vast majority of movies out there are junk. Stop asking me to read/writer an awesome review for junk. 

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DrProfessor

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3 years ago

It's sad that imdb which was once a community based site, is requiring users to generate content considered relevant to their business model.

This is how the internet has gone. All of it is corporate ruled to make the most money, and collect as much metadata as possible. Big brother is watching.

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agof

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@DrProfessor​ all forums and friends and discussions were removed

3 years ago

jim_dutton

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@agof​ If you haven't found it, moviechat dot org archived and recreated the IMDb forums. The participation, of course, is lower than it was on IMDb, but it's better than nothing. You may even be able to establish your same user name. Unfortunately, everything you contributed that was archived from here is locked off, so you can pretty much only find your old threads if you remember where they were.

Hard to believe the boards here have been gone for six years, huh? I enjoyed them a lot. At their worst, yes some threads could be trollish. However, at their best there was a lot of camaraderie among fans sharing memories and interesting information that just doesn't happen without them.

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agof

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3 years ago

600 is waaaaaaaaaaaaaay to much

300 is understandable.

most of everything is mediocre and most of the movies are the same movie that can be described in a couple of words.

if a movie is not a 20 hours essay worthy terrible there is not much to talk about besides describing it as it actually is and noting all the noteworthy parts

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KarthikKrtk

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3 years ago

I see so many of the reviews in 1 line or 2 lines. It definitely is not 600 characters. Why would imdb ask me to write reviews in 600 chars but not others? How to post a review less than 600 characters?

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jim_dutton

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@KarthikKrtk​ Those are older reviews submitted before the new limit was imposed.

3 years ago

jim_dutton

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3 years ago

600 characters is fine for a movie or a TV series. That requirement needs to be lower, however, for individual series episodes. 600 characters leads to a lot of useless padding for a description of a TV episode.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled 600 Character review minimum

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jeorj_euler

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Right, but it seems that the IMDb site authorities aren't bothered at all by people being discouraged from writing reviews for material that is shorter than thirty minutes of running time, and in the case of material that is not even five minutes long, such a minimum bound could be dire, unless the content is so spectacular that its demands a lot to be said, without boiling down to a frame-by-frame analysis.

— Jeorj Euler, an IMDb regular registrant

3 years ago

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nunorochaportimao

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3 years ago

Absurd imposed so many words . Sometimes it is justified.  Unfortunately others don't. 

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