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Thursday, February 9th, 2023 4:43 AM

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My reviews - likes and disklikes are suddenly back to zero

I had a few reviews listed at the top becuase of many likes and dislikes.

Today I log in, and my review with 22 likes out of 22 is back to 0/0.

I found another review with many likes is back to 0/0 as well. 

Is IMDb seriously meddling in review systems? what to show and what not to show?

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2 years ago

Hi,

Just to say that my reviews have just been spammed with non helpfuls in a matter of seconds for the first time since late last year. With all but one of my reviews since Saturday (fifteen overall) being down voted, including the four written only 7 or so hours ago. Many of which for non recent titles with no other review for each title affected. This was a major problem for me between 2018-2022, in the exact same way, and for many other prolific reviewers (especially planktonrules who is still having it bad), and was eventually dealt with late last year by the excessive downvotes being removed, but it looks as though the issue might be starting again. Can the non helpfuls please be removed, as it caused a lot of anxiety when it was happening frequently. Thank you. Bethany

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Review downvote spamming

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Hi @bethany -

Do you have the link to the original post when Michelle helped you out with this so I can confirm it was indeed solved and inform the team it can be happening again.

Thanks!

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@Bethanny​ Hi Bethanny, thank you for replying. 

‎Can something please be done about the targeted harrassment of prolific reviewers? | IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)

It actually in the post says In Progress, but I just assumed that the issue had been solved, seeing that the suspicious downvotes had disappeared and that it has not been a problem for months.

Here is another thread from my other account that I made when having password issues for this account. In case you're wondering why so many comments, there may have been thread merging;

‎Two missing reviews and ongoing harrassment | IMDb Community Forums (sprinklr.com)

Thank you

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@bethany​ Hi!

Thanks for that, I will look into it and come back to you.

Cheers!

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2 years ago

Hi, 

My review count has been significantly reduced from 20, 795 to 10, 000 overnight, as have many of my helpfuls and non helpfuls. Is this a glitch and can it be dealt with asap. My anxiety has now just gone through the roof. Thank you. Bethany aka TheLittleSongbird

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Significantly reduced review count and most useful votes too

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Same goes for all prolific reviewers too.

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In the case of the useful votes, it is actually the ones that were given from 5th January onwards.

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2 years ago

As a prolific reviewer, my review count has also been significantly reduced and same with the helpfuls and non helpfuls. Have checked all the other prolific reviewers who have written 15,000 reviews and all are reduced to 10,000.

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2 years ago

Thanks for the problem reports and sorry for ther inconvenience.  We have opened a ticket with the appropriate team (ticket reference #P81191927)

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Just to clarify here -- the issue is a display problem related to some behind-the-scenes changes. All reviews and votes are still flowing through the system and will return once the issue is resolved.

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2 years ago

Thanks again for the problem reports and sorry for the inconvenience.  The problems have been fixed now.