IMDB should limit the number of User Reviews.

Karla Kutsch
Joined community on February 2, 2020 - new today
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Keep the Latest 100 reviews ? ?
Keep the Prolific reviewers ? ?
There is a "Report this" option on reviews 
 
MartinHafer
Sun Jun 8 2003
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2467618/
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Michael_Elliott
Sat Nov 25 2006
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TheLittleSongbird
Fri Jan 30 2009
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bkoganbing
Sun Jun 15 2003
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SnoopyStyle
Dec 2003
https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2898520/
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https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2898520/reviews - 11,728 Reviews
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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.

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.

Don't throw the baby out with the bathwater.

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=5

I 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." 

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.