Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Review written this morning still pending
Hi, This morning I wrote a review for the show Megababies. Five hours later it is still pending, when usually for me my reviews are approved automatically. I was just wondering if there is a problem, as this is causing me to worry a bit. A few days ago, I also replied back to a previous query reg
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Review process
Is there any way to stop first weekend reviews? It hurts movie theaters significantly when a movie like Lightyear is being review bombed because of a same-sex kiss. That's just one example. I've had multiple patrons tell me they didn't want to watch a movie because of reviews, only to love that same
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"Helpful" Review button, does it work?
Hi, I noticed that when i click on one of the "Was this review helpful?" buttons ("Yes" or "No"), it tells me "Your vote will be counted and appear on this site shortly.". But it never does appear! I can always come back to the reviews section and the "Yes/No" buttons are still there, and the numb
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Review Declined
For some odd reason IMDb "declined" to post one of my film reviews and I cannot understand why as the reason they gave was "unspecified." Admittedly, the film (the Black Klansman) was one that revolved around racism but I used no words that anybody with any common sense would think was sexist, raci
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Tendentious comment removal
Hello everyone,First, apologize if this question exists already, but I want to report an abuse by a moderator (or however it is called) regarding the title Fear Street:1994 - the person is regularly deleting negative reviews that are first approved and you never get a notification for, nor a justifi
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Smear Campaign
These users are running smear campaigns against multiple films. The Users TopDawgCritic, YoungGrasshopper2469, Ralph-13152, and Mr. Blockbuster write the same reviews for the same titles over and over again. We believe they have at least 12 accounts for the same user. This is for films star
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Someone is Trolling and started a hate Campaign against my film
Only friends, cast and crew rented my film A mother of no destination and it was getting great reviews from them until about 30 random people started saying aweful things and rating 1 star. At the same time both Trailers on youtube was under an army of trolls attack of thousands of people. I know a
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Adding credits as a film reporter
I'm a KIDS FIRST! film critic/reporter and I've written several reviews that have been submitted to IMDb and have received the contribution receipt and are currently uploaded to IMDb under each movie review that was submitted by KIDS FIRST! I'm looking to see if I could use this as credits on my own
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User Ratings/Reviews not popping up on movie page, need help!
Hey out there, I need help getting my page to support user ratings and reviews. I've tried everything, putting in the final release date, changing the status to released/completed etc. and nothing seems to work. We already had our film festival release so I'd love to let everyone who saw it leave
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Why are my external review links accepted and then removed?
In the past, have reviewed many films and submitted links to my website MOVIES and MANIA with no issues. But over the 2-3 months the links keep being systematically removed even though they were initially accepted. Examples in the last two days are: Terror Trips - https://www.imdb.com/title/tt103
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