Thank u.

I have rated more than 6000 movies n reviewed close to 1000 movies on imdb.

Been watching movies since a young kid but recently started revisiting movies n posting reviews.

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur18970655/?mode=desktop&ref_=m_ft_dsk

Kindly look into the matter. Much obliged.

@Michelle 

Hey there, kindly look into my matter.

Recently I put up a review of this movie Atrangi Re.

My review got more than 400 likes and later all of a sudden my review got deleted without it containing any spoilers or abusive stuff.

Pls look into the matter as earlier too the same problem has happened with my other reviews inspite of them getting thousands of likes.

Now if the makers of the movie or some fanboys are not happy cos of me criticizing the movie, then what's the point of writing our options/reviews.

@Fella_shibby​ Were the support team able to help you? I have the same problem where my reviews have been deleted without any notification or opportunity to edit and was wondering if I'd be wasting my time with the support team or not?

Not yet. But of lately after the complaint, only one review of mine which got more than 400 likes got deleted.

Earlier lots of them were getting deleted.

Why don't u post ur IMDb Account Activity page link here and complain to the staff (Michelle).

@Michelle​. Hi Michelle,

I understand you can help out with deleted reviews. I don't remember how many there was but I do know that there was definitely more than what's currently there. My activity page link is: https://www.imdb.com/user/ur1140333/?ref_=nv_usr_prof_2

Hoping you can help.

Thank you

Hi @Smurfette​ -

I can confirm that all three of your User Reviews have been approved and are live on the site.  There are no deleted/removed User Reviews associated with the account you referenced.

I Hope this helps!

Hi Michelle,

Thank you for looking into but there are more review than the three you mention. These reviews were done in the 1990's if that helps.

Are you able to confirm if IMDB's policy is to remove the reviews after a certain period of time? Because this is what seems to be happening.

Thank you

@Michelle​ 

Thank you Michelle.

The volume of the deleted reviews itself speaks that people are reporting my reviews on the basis of their non approval of my opinions.

Recently too, the review of the movie 83 keeps on getting deleted.

Kindly look into the matter.

How can I retrieve my deleted reviews (the list u showed)?

Thank u.

Hi @Smurfette​ -

You can review our current User review guidelines on the Help Guide.

I hope this helps!

Hi @Fella_shibby​ -

I understand you were innocently testing, but I discourage you from testing on valid User Reviews as it does violate our policies to remove valid data from the site.  T

he purpose of User Reviews is to allow users to freely express their opinions about films, as long as the comments follow our content guidelines, we will not edit or remove them and we don't discriminate based on the style or tone of the reviews.

Do you recall the specific title and user name of the contributor of the review?  If I have this information I can investigate the incorrect removal further.

Hi Michelle,

Based on the above information, anybody not in favour of a review can report it and have it removed instantly without IMDB investigating or confirming the reasons.

This means that if I want to be the top reviewer, all I need to do is click report on the top reviewers and have their reviews deleted, making me climb to the top.

The issues here are that IMDB claim that they allow their users to express their opinions freely but at the same time IMDB don't report to the reviewer that this has occurred. How can we express freely our opinions and perhaps even be given the opportunity to defend our review. It seems like you're hoping the reviewer won't notice, which is what has happened here (for years).

IMDB's approach is deceptive and misleading due to failure to inform the parties involved of what is actually happening to their reviews.

I know that you most likely won't respond to this post just as you haven't to my previous post requesting clarity on IMDB's policy about reviews. Maybe you're hoping this will go unnoticed as well.

This thread was started a year ago and it seems like every attempt has been made to evade the issue or get it resolved.

Can you please also confirm if IMDB has records of the deleted reviews? Or are these gone forever?

Regards

Extremely disappointed

@Michelle​ the user name is Takethispunch and i don't remember the title.

U urself gave an entire list of the reviews of mine which got deleted n the list is 63 titles.

Now pls consider how can all 63 reviews of mine contain description about physicality of performers?

Pls try to get my 63 reviews back.

Also, some of my reviews get deleted again and again repeatedly.

Thalaivi, '83, Bellbottom, Padmavat, Bajirao Mastani, Panipat, Tanhaji, Super 30, Forever Purge, Jiu-jitsu, the reviews of these movies got deleted almost 50 times.

Kindly look into the matter.

Thanking you.

@Michelle​ hey, see now once more my review of '83 got deleted. This is the 25th time the same review got deleted without it contradicting submission guidelines.

@Smurfette​ hey, my reviews are still getting deleted without them containing any spoilers, abusive stuff or personal remarks.

Do check my profile page and see for urself.

I think its very easy to get someone's review deleted or maybe IMDb listens to producers, star cast n peope associated with the movies cos these fellas must be using IMDb pro.

No wonder, none of the IMDb employee is looking into my matter now.

Hi @Fella_shibby​ -

My apologies for the delayed reply, IMDb staff are working through a backlog of older threads.

If you are still seeing valid user reviews being removed, please post some recent examples and our staff can investigate further.