Updates to User Reviews

• On the web site & mobile web, add sort orders to the title/reviews page,  ideas under review include: chronological, by vote volume, by rating given to title by reviewer, love/hate view, by volume of reviews by reviewer, by helpfulness (all in both directions)

• On the web site, add sort orders to the user/reviews page, ideas under review include: alphabetical by title, chronological, by vote volume, by rating given to title by reviewer, by helpfulness (all in both directions)

That's good enough for me, thanks!

Is it possible to add a small encapsulation of an Actor's performance in a specific episode of a TV show they were guest starring in?  
Example.  As Angelita in Maverick, The "Guatemala City" Episode, Linda Dangcil's Angelita is a Remarkably Precocious presence that invites one to connect with her on a multitude of levels. Angelita immediately shuts down Maverick's anger in one scene, Instantly reminding Maverick of the honor in being gentlemanly in non violent situations. Besides Dangcil's on screen high energy yet calming presence, in another era she might have been a Shampoo Ambassador for her unending but well managed Tresses.

We have made it clear that we want the return of 'hated it/loved it' - please explain why there seem to be no plans to bring back this popular feature.

Cannot believe this has taken you two months so far.

Hi Dan. This is on our list of features to bring back in the near future.

I have worked on my share of websites and I know sometimes it can take a long time to create or re-create a feature that used to exist on new software from totally scratch. In fact it was about time that the IMDb site got a software upgrade it had existed in the form that it was for over 12 years, and there has been a lot of improvements with code platforms since then, I just hope that by the end of this year we will have our sorting back not just in the user reviews but in our personal review section. And maybe a messaging feature where we can contact the other IMDb users that we used to communicate with but have not been able to since the removal of the message boards.

Odds are Imdb could care less about user interactivity. It will end up being a trailer showcase and gossip news aggregator. User content is probably just a nuisance to them, hence closing the boards and making the user review function unusable.

And one other thing: Why the hell do I have to sign up for a third party site in order to give feedback?? Goddamn annoying.

3rd party site? Because that's how it's done, I suppose you don't use Quicken. But if you're suggesting that "resistance doesn't work" I have to diffidently remind you of what happened last summer when the whole nation responded to the threat of FakeACA. Basically what you are saying is that when people gathered together for a common goal it's useless. I beg to differ.

Well, I know that I certainly would not allow people to discuss ways to "go against" me in my house. I wouldn't expect anything different from most site operators in the world. The liability is typically unbearable.

That's why most places set up a third-party site like this and then they have representatives who come in. But I used to moderate a huge Bulletin board that was attached to the original MP3 com. We held it on site and the management actually encouraged ideas from the user base and general public. The reason why companies use get satisfaction, it's because it's a resource that already exists and they don't have to create a bulletin board on their own web space. I toured the MP3c storage area before it was taken apart and sold to C-Net, it was thousands of terabytes and yet there was always issues with running out of space. Needless to say, I wasn't happy after MP3 went down and my music started showing up, without my permission, on places like garageband, and they were suddenly asking me for $100 to access it. So I told them to delete it but still a few of the tracks show up here and there on butt music sites.

Now the storage of our reviews is a huge use of storage space, and I'm glad that they kept our work intact, but in doing so a lot of the features that we depended on vanished, it's going to take their programmers a while to re-create that all from scratch. But I have faith that they will do it, because we want it. But as it is the whole reviewing system is unworkable except if you are viewing them on the mobile app.

A lot of the complaints are against Amazon as well, but if you look at Amazon, they have sorting in place for reviews of products. But the problem is Amazon is Amazon and IMDb is IMDb, two different entities with completely different programming.

Thanks Karen. Can you (or anybody else) explain what total votes means in this context?

Hi @Horst. It is the total number of votes given -- both up votes & down votes. 

Thank you Karen.

Hi Karen, I hope you're doing well.

So happy for the return of the prolific reviewer' sort. Though, something is bothering me..

Lately, and after the recent modifications, I have a hard time editing any of my old reviews. For instance, I edited my review about Batman Forever (1995) 3 days ago, and after 72 hours nothing happened at all. So does the time of publishing a new version become more than 72 hours ? (it used to be done immediately !), or is it a kind of temporary disorder ?

Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/contrib... and in particular note the section on tracking your contribution.

In the case of reviews, see https://help.imdb.com/article/contrib... which explains how to use the link in the email receipt for an update on the specific processing time.

Thanks Mr. Needham.

Excellent. Thanks for that Karen.

Hi Karen,

Thanks for the update on Love/Hate. Look forward to it as it was my main sorting tool.

Can you say if there are plans to revert to pagination from infinite scroll? Infinite scrolling takes away all control and knowledge of whereabouts. Clicking a link leads off the review page, which loses its place when returned to. When there are hundreds of reviews this isn't acceptable. I know this view is shared by many.

The search box has a dropdown for Titles, TV episodes, Names, Companies, Keywords. I propose you add Reviews to the dropdown. This would allow the finding of mentions of particular films in reviews of different films, mentions of particular actors and so on. I for one would find it incredibly useful. It would probably double my IMDB screen time and significantly improve my film knowledge. Would you please consider this?

Peter

Hi Karen I just thought about something. Every day, our reviews are accosted by dozens of fake IMDb accounts whose sole job is to down vote every positive review and up vote every negative review. They've been doing this especially to Star Trek discovery.

IMDB ain't REDDIT. I just thought about something, let's make a bold proposal: totally remove the "unhelpful" button.

If you would do that, these fake accounts would have no ammunition. I believe the whole helpful/unhelpful system has become abused, just like the review system has been appropriated by troll accounts who have been posting multiple duplicate negative reviews for many popular shows. This is just a suggestion, temporarily remove the unhelpful vote. Then watch back and see if this activity stops. Because it is really pissing me off, these people who do this have no interest in the shows, it's just a troll Activity. Or maybe somebody else has a better idea of how to excise the trolls from IMDb?

PS, if anybody doesn't believe me that this is happening, try this. Write a positive review for the next episode of The X-Files and watch what happens.

thank you, Karen. Good news.

Thanks for the suggestions Peter & @XweAponX.  I can't comment on future plans, but please add your suggestions & ideas to the IDEAS area here: https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb?topic-list[settings][type]=idea