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IMDB should limit the number of User Reviews.
In my opinion there should be a limit to the number of reviews per subject. When it gets to be over a hundred, many of them are just repetitive. I know everyone is a critic and feels they should be heard but come on who wants to comb through a ludicrous amount of misspelled words and bad grammar. Why not have categories or statements people can agree with or give a thumbs up or down. Personally I wish more people would ask questions to clear up confusing plots and that is where the Trivia section is more appealing with helpful information.
ACT_1
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177.7K Points
5 years ago
Karla Kutsch Joined community on February 2, 2020 - new today- - - Keep the Latest 100 reviews ? ?Keep the Prolific reviewers ? ?There is a "Report this" option on reviews MartinHaferSun Jun 8 2003https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2467618/https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2467618/ratings - 23,457 titleshttps://www.imdb.com/user/ur2467618/reviews - 23,745 Reviews Michael_ElliottSat Nov 25 2006https://www.imdb.com/user/ur13134536/https://www.imdb.com/user/ur13134536/ratings - 11 titles https://www.imdb.com/user/ur13134536/reviews - 16,398 Reviews TheLittleSongbird Fri Jan 30 2009https://www.imdb.com/user/ur20552756/https://www.imdb.com/user/ur20552756/ratings - 16,737 titleshttps://www.imdb.com/user/ur20552756/reviews - 16,750 Reviews bkoganbing Sun Jun 15 2003https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2483625/https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2483625/ratings - 16,253 titles https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2483625/reviews - 16,286 Reviews SnoopyStyleDec 2003https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2898520/https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2898520/ratings - 11,855 titleshttps://www.imdb.com/user/ur2898520/reviews - 11,728 Reviews.
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MyCatDuffyTookMyLaptop
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124K Points
5 years ago
To limit the number of User Reviews would be unfair. The reason I joined IMDb to start with was solely to write reviews, as I have a passion for it and enjoy it as a creative and intellectual outlet. IMDb is not just a place to advertise movies; it is a place for film buffs to express opinions and begin their own dreams as a critic.
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ElMaruecan82
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5 years ago
If we're speaking of reviews that consists on one sentence and that sound more like Twitter material, yes, I agree something should be done, but preventing users from reviewing or limiting the number would be totally unfair. If it ever happened, I would have nothing to do on IMDb anymore. Users are capable and literate enough to distinguish between "interesting" and "blah blah" reviews... and many classics don't get more than 300 or 400 reviews anyway and even then, you can just order them by 'helpfulness'. As for the grammar, there used to be an automatic corrector... now we have to double-check before submitting but we do our best.
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albstein
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47K Points
5 years ago
Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.
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bderoes
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5 years ago
We can already vote Reviews as Helpful or Not, and sort the reviews by their Helpfulness score, as well as 4 other criteria shown below:We can also filter by the numeric score of the reviewer's rating of that title (even when they haven't made their ratings public, that feature does "out" their rating. See this title:)https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101153/reviews?sort=userRating&dir=desc&ratingFilter=5I agree that poor writing, including spelling, grammar and punctuation, can be annoying. Perhaps IMDb can run each review through a checker and give the reviewer the chance to edit their copy before submitting. After acceptance, perhaps IMDb can highlight with the classic red squiggle underline anything that is still "wrong" when it's published. That way we, the readers, can glance at the frequency of red marks and choose to skip a poorly edited review. I disagree strongly with placing a cap on the total number of reviews that can be submitted for a title. That n+1st review might be the one that really "nails it."
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jimmy_simard
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664 Points
5 years ago
Why? Who decide that someone review isn't important or that someone review is an useless waste of space? Certainly not me and certainly not you. All reviews are important (yep even the ones who are obviously planted and paid for) and nobody force anyone to read them all. I give you a hint take it as you want... read the ones from the prolific writers.Also one part of your message really bother me: "misspelled words and bad grammar" Not everybody in the world is a native english speaker... I prefer to read not perfectly writen review than nothing at all. Would you prefer if the review section would have review writen in french, spanish, russian, chinese or any other languages who isn't english? I don't think so, so climb down of your high horse.
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