Geekofriendly's profile

27 Messages

 • 

400 Points

Tuesday, May 14th, 2024 3:58 PM

Closed

Solved

My movie review was by far the most helpful/upvoted, but has been pushed down by 13 spots overnight

The movie I'm referring to is "The Deepest Breath".

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24132732/?ref_=ext_shr

My review has almost 4x more upvotes than the next one in line and a bigger ratio of likes vs dislikes (250/310) than most (if not all) other reviews. And yet, overnight, it was downgraded considerably. There are now 13 other reviews before mine shows up. I've seen a review lose a spot or two or ten before, but gradually, through time. Not suddenly, without a logical explanation. So the only explanation I can come up with is that my review was reported as inappropriate (my opinion definitely doesn't do the movie any favours) and that as a consequence my review was downgraded.

Can I do anything about this to get my review back to its place?

Employee

 • 

1.9K Messages

 • 

18.8K Points

6 months ago

Hi @Geekofriendly,

Thank you for your report.

The Featured review order is based on several user inputs that ensure a diverse variety of opinions/perspectives are represented for each review. In order to preserve the reliability of our review order, we do not disclose the exact sorting logic details. For more information you can review our help guide.

Cheers!

27 Messages

 • 

400 Points

@Ozzy thank you for writing.

I understand the various inputs that influence whether reviews are pushed up or down.

What I don't understand is why a review that has earned by far the most likes is SUDDENLY severely punished and placed so far down the list that it won't be noticed by almost anyone from now on. This seems inexplicable and therefore unfair which therefore makes it problematic. For these reasons it could warrant (or frankly, deserve) some further explanation. 

Do same major changes in top review suddenly being downcast happen with all movie titles? Because many of my reviews are among the first 5 or 10 in Featured order and I've never seen any such change.

(edited)