Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Data Issues & Policy Discussions

This category is managed by our IMDb Content team. IMDb Content is the team that collects and manages the content that makes IMDb authoritative & accurate. We depend upon our users to supply the majority of our content, and will use this space to both answer questions and collect ideas for how to make IMDb more authoritative, accurate, and easy to add to.

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Inconsistent application of review submission rules

So I tried to post a review on a recent show that was being review bombed by people. Actual reviews that made it theough their moderation and were posted talk about the usual "woke" and "DEI agenda" claims that come with review bombs and absolutely violate the submission guidelines. I wrote a respo

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ratings privacy

how can i, review (with text) movies and shows without everyone to see it, i mean like i would be the only one that can see my ratings and if somebody else will scroll to the reviews he wouldnt be able to see my ratings

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Director / Writer info has been declined twice

I'm trying to add the director and writer for Dinosaur Babes - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0188565/ Brett Piper is the man responsible. If you look at the poster shown on that page, he is credited there at the bottom (written and directed by Brett Piper). Also mentioned in two reviews on the sit

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Issue with review submissions etc.

A couple of days ago I submitted a review of West Side Story (2021) on IMDB. Often my reviews take only a few minutes to go live (why do they take longer than this?) but after about 12 hours with it still not being online, I replied to an old thread of mine here mentioning the reoccurrence of the pr

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Does not meet contribution guidlines

For the first time my external reviews were declined and it is not clear why. We have had hundreds approved and there's nothing I've done different. Can you please help? Latest example is 240103-204715-119000

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Writing a bad review isn't a crime but getting someone's IP is!

Writing a bad review isn't a crime, but getting someone's IP is! @LJBeautyInc forced IMDb to remove all negative reviews on her daughters homemade Instagram posts and threatened to expose anyone who didn't like her little girl's vids, because she told you she had their IPs. Serious IMDb, you can

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Feedback: allow a review I just submitted to be edited

I made a typo in the title of my review so I immediately submitted a fixed review. It appears they might have been submitted as separate reviews based on the fact the contribution numbers are different. In the future it should be possible to edit the original review and re-submit.

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Delete an existing title

Hi, due to some technical issue I am getting error page for reviews and realized that the title Id is still being appended/appearing. Just want check how can we delete the same. Kindly help. Regards, Rajesh

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Declined Review

220821-184043-946304 I have re-examined my review (for a film with controversial racial issues, the only type of films I have had getting reviews approved) and see nothing that goes against IMDb policies. I previously re-edited and re-submitted. Thank you.

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Please require users to start reviews/summaries with SPOILER ALERT when appropriate.

Please require users to start reviews/summaries with SPOILER ALERT when appropriate. It absolutely ruins it if you are simply looking for an overall simple summary and user lists every detail including the climax! This includes old films - doesn't matter if it's the Wizard of Oz .. don't give away t

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