Request To Have Helpful "No" Button Removed

I 100% agree with this. If a review is helpful, let people praise it. If a review is not helpful, then ignore it, move on. Nobody's forcing you to agree with it, or even like it.

Furthermore, the "helpful" is often confused for "agree", thus leading to some of the top reviews on countless movies receiving literally hundreds of "no's" despite the fact that they give people every possible bit of information and are well-written, simply because people who dislike the film (or are just haters) press"no."

@front_row_reviews put it perfectly: either remove the "no" button completely and just leave the "yes", or (even better) just change the button to "like" (with no dislike). This way, the unhelpful reviews will still be at the bottom (because they won't get votes), and the helpful ones will still be at the top.

I think Karen is right.  There is a distinct difference between not agreeing with a review and not finding it helpful.  A lot of reviewers will write two or three sentences, saying (to make up an example) that a film is just stupid, promotes the (liberal/conservative) agenda, and was a waste of the viewer's time.  I find that completely unhelpful to decide whether I want to see it, and I hope IMDb will continue to let us flag it so.

And although it does not apply to Bethany's reviews, which have meaningful content (I looked once, out of curiosity), if I find a review like the one I just described, I will indeed go to that user's profile, look at a page or two of the others, and indicate whether any of them would be helpful to me.  Usually not... but there have been a few times when I voted "helpful" no matter how useless the other 24 on the page were.

I usually vote "helpful" for reviews that are carefully written and intelligent, regardless of my agreement or not with the reviewer rating.  If I can't understand the review or if it is very poorly worded, I will vote "unhelpful". If a reviewer does not sufficiently explain why he or she likes or dislikes a movie, I will usually vote "unhelpful". I hope that my reviews are not in this category. I try to justify my opinion, although I may not succeed all the time.

I just discovered that an IMDb user voted at least 10 of my most recent reviews as "unhelpful" all at once during the past few days. I don't know if IMDb can track this user because I would like to know why this person found all of these recent reviews as "unhelpful".  I must have really angered the person with one of the reviews.  What prevents another user from totally trashing me on IMDb?

I would also respectfully point out that in terms of biasing the results, people seem to "misuse" the "helpful-yes" as much as the no, at least judging by the many one- or two-line reviews that pop up to the top of some titles' lists.

I noticed this recently on a review that I was copying and pasting to a word document I keep of my reviews. It was a major classic title so I figured somehow it was just discovered. But a bunch of reviews for very obscure films written in the days before it were also voted down, one of them for a film that didn't have any other reviews. So it's apparent that someone is doing it purposely in a silent stalking way. Pretty idiotic and pointless so it reflects on their mentality (or lack of it), not me. I don't give deliberately cruel people power so let them try their worst. My self esteem is stronger than their lack of brain cells.