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Problem with review-bombing
I notice that several of the series or movies I like, like Captain Marvel or Ms. Marvel, have some really nasty reviews. Many of them are posted early and appear to be intended to discourage viewership. They're full of misogyny and vitriol, and it really seems the reviewer did not watch the show at all. It puts me off reviewing here. Why does IMDb allow these poisonous reviews? Don't they monitor the reviews at all?
jeorj_euler
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1 year ago
Why should the IMDb company commit resources to manually screen every movie review submissions by the factual accuracy of the claims being made about the content of movies under review in those posts, instead of expecting concerned contributors to voluntarily report the abuse? Surely there are bound to be tons of reviews of movies that nobody on the IMDb staff has even seen. How are they supposed to know that the person who submitting the review is bullshitting about actually having seen the movie being reviewed? I sincerely don't understand what the people who keep complaining about this shit expect.
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Col_Needham
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1 year ago
@Helene Thanks for the feedback. Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/contribution-information/why-would-you-display-such-a-negative-user-review-on-a-title-page/GYM9WC92JWD9HA3R for a link to the review guidelines and details on how to report any reviews which do not conform.
If you prefer to only read reviews which match your own opinion, you can always use the “Filter by Rating” menu at the top of the reviews page. For example for Captain Marvel (2019):
selecting “9” gives you -> https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4154664/reviews?sort=curated&dir=desc&ratingFilter=9
Similarly if you dislike a movie/show you can read reviews which match your opinion by selecting the lower scores from this menu.
Hope this helps.
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