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No, I quit.  I'm tired of these vague, inconsistently applied and unaccountable guidelines and reviews being deleted without notification or specificity.  It's not worth it.

I've been posting reviews on IMDb since January 2004--had a good run there at least.

I have had reviews "declined" because of excessive "opinion on real life events or subject matter on which film is based".  This is especially difficult when a film is heavily based on an historical event. My review of a film about philosopher Hannah Arendt was never approved after three attempts because I could not review the film without "excessively" commenting on the historical events upon which the movie was based. In the end, I had to accept IMDb's determination and moved on. Just could not write a review of the film without heavily focusing on the historical events. Don't give up! 

I appreciate the encouragement, but I've already been using Letterboxd as my primary site for reviewing movies for the last couple years, and it's just much more engaging and rewarding and without the hassle of vague, inconsistent IMDb editors enforcing these arbitrary guidelines.  I've complained about the site's direction here and there for years now, but it's clear IMDb doesn't care, so I'm done with trying to get into the heads of the editors to understand how they interpret the rules so as to censor myself to ever-varying degrees just to post a redacted review on a site where it's unlikely to even be read.

This was just the last straw and a striking one given the activity surrounding the title, the Fauci documentary.  Inconsistently enforced guidelines, as I said and as I would think anyone could see on that page, and striking that mine was deleted and these other ones remain.  If that's what IMDb wants, that's their problem--not mine anymore.  Thanks, though.