Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Approved Reviews
In the past couple days I've encountered an issue where I'll submit a user review, and it will be approved, but it then takes hours - even half a day or more - before the approved review appears on the site, which if nothing else means I can't edit any typos. Case in point, as yet there's a review I
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what if i found something like a filmmaker trying to manipulate the reviews for his film with proof...what should i do
I know someone that is a very known filmmaker in my country and he's trying to manipulate the reviews for his film by asking trolls to review it five stars even though the film was really bad and not even accurate (it's a historical film as he said) he's trying to distort the history and many people
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Reviews glitch
Guys why the movie "Murda Boyz: Mahlenska Klasa" has 3.8 average score when 86% of the people has voted with 10 stars ??
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Fake reviews
An IG post is asking thousands of followers to leave a fake review to hurt a film.How can we report this? https://www.instagram.com/p/C8ZeTB1g2Jo/?igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D&fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR3tLoOhF-PaESw4SrYEUyPLEO8aZ64w4ubXVTo1_6ogD41tD4bBDYS2-4U_aem_LNPJ_eMm9yrygCZPE9m29w
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Deleting reviews doesn't work.
Hi. I want to delete my reviews. Apart that it's an extremely unpractical system and that IMDb really has one of the worst UX designs I've ever seen (as also Amazon), the real problem is that it does not even work. I go through all the hassle of having to delete each review individually and to get s
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External Reviews from Blogs
Anyone know if blog posts on Blogger are allowed to be added as external reviews?
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"external reviews"
I posted some links to external reviews that were rejected. Looking at my contribution history, I get: "Reason Does not meet contribution guidelines. We were unable to approve this contribution. Please review our submission guidelines." However, I have not been able to find anything a
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Rising fake reviews, any easier way to report?
Hi, Recently a movie was released titled "ishq vishk rebound" and it looks so obvious from the user reviews page that all the current 33 reviews I see are paid reviews. All reviews 10/10, similar content (to bypass imdb filter they used synonyms of various words) and all user ID's are starting with
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Sexist and Misogynist Reviews
230127-223906-724604 The review consists of little more than “I expected big breasts but there was also sex and a female actor had nice breasts”. Is this really the direction IMDb wants to take - Beavis and Butthead-style reviews, written by and for adolescents looking for porn without triggerin
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User reviews unavailable
@Col_Needham Hi Col, I searched for this same issue and came across this post. We have added an exact release date but user ratings are still greyed out. Is there anything else I should do? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt18376330/reference/
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