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Fix the Censor Bot Please

Keeping this short to avoid censor bot. People may have notice, I am less active. It is the fault of the Censor Bot. I post at a normal pace. But, my post are marked as private by the bot. I am not the only users affected. It is a shame. Bots can get through the censorship. But, reputable and frequent users such as myself cannot.

Please fix it. I am thinking of going elsewhere.

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2 years ago

I checked, and the posts I was referring to did not include external links. If there are other criteria that my send red flags to the bot, please tell us. Do not let us in the dark.

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@Maxence_G​ 

My wife told me that yesterday IMDb was off for about 1 hour. I guess they have bigger problems. By looking at the world situation, it wouldn't be miraculous, if they had problems with cyber attacks. My own postings have been market private in last times. I'm not sure, if I should spend so much time on that site. Despite of a full working day, I was joyning again. But I think it's a little addiction to spend too much time on it.  I guess I should better take more distance to it,.

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2 years ago

1. Longer posts

2. Posts that list names of movies with years, even w/o links.

3. Certain relatively benign words like Hel*

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I wonder if "murde*", "murde***" are in there with "hel*"

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2 years ago

There are problems around! I always see that when Google beginns to send me catchpas. Seems to be another round in cyber war. Normally Google doesn't send my catchpas for simple translations.

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2 years ago

@Maxence_G 😀

Can IMDb post a List of External Site links we Can add here??
* You Tube ??  
* Wiki pedia ??
and what we can Not

at the top of page with
"The IMDb Poll is an ongoing set of polls about movies and television"

Maybe need a helpful reply from ....


@Fran, Employee 😁

@Michelle, Employee 😁

@Bethanny, Employee 😁

@Col_Needham, Employee 😁
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@ACT_1​ You would think that sites that Amazon owns: Amazon; Goodreads; IMDb (I had one with an IMDb link to a director/producer's page); etc... would pass the muster but have been caught in the terrible (what I assume) spambot system as false positives for spam.

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IT's not just link posts though @ACT_1

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Test 1:

Ted Bundy is a murderer.

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Test 2: Ted Bundy is in Hell

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Test 3:

Some of my favourite films are 

(1) Watchmen (2009)

(2) The Dark Knight (2008)

(3) Fight Club (1999)

(4) The Matrix (1999)

(5) The Prestige (2006)

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Test 4:

Big Tech companies like Microsoft, Google, Amazon and Facebook/Meta spy on us for directed marketing purposes.

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2 years ago

Now what? On the JFF thread...

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2 years ago

Automatically censored: (The other 3 are okay, for now):

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2 years ago

So far, our censorbot hasn't stopped me from posting any YouTube videos. #knockonwood

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I mainly catch problems when posting messages containing embedded YouTube videos, especially if there are hyperlinks to the corresponding YouTube channels. When a post is unflagged from being private, I do believe it is done manually by the forum administrator. In only one instance has an apparent decision been made not to unflag a post. Overall, I get the gist that we're not all treated equally in regards to the automated censoring.

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2 years ago

I don't know if it's related to that situation, but I don't seem to be able to have my reviews accepted anymore... except for lousy reviews I could write in my sleep (less than 300 words, no substance, no humor, nothing...)  and every time I get the same answers: your contribution was declined, we couldn't find a specific reason...

I'm getting a little blasé about it, I try to be careful with my wording, I avoid hot triggering topics but the level of self-censorship I put now is so high that I stopped reviewing movies I watch... for the first time in 13 years, that's how badly things have changed...

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ElMo, that's a serious problem, and you ought to have mentioned it in a thread specifically about it a lot sooner than now.