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Ratings from the UK for a film not yet released in the UK!
Hi there - looking at the ratings for the film THE STRANGER IN OUR BED - which is released in the UK on Sept 5 - I'm somewhat purturbed that so many ratings (154 of them) come from the UK when the film has not even been released in the UK as yet. Sept 5 2022 is when it arrives.So can these ratings -
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Declined review, very discouraging
Hello my review contribution with #220915-172620-168704 was declined and I wasn't informed about that (no email). I learned it by clicking the View Status link. There is only one line over there "Reason: Does not meet contribution guidelines". There are a lot of items within User review guide
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More fake users
Looking at https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12143990/ it was obvious many of the reviews were fake. Here's what I've found. https://www.imdb.com/user/ur135578516/?ref_=tt_urv https://www.imdb.com/user/ur135603852/?ref_=tt_urv https://www.imdb.com/user/ur135634887/?ref_=tt_urv All of these accounts wer
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Writes a better review than most critics...doesn't meet guidelines?
I understand imdB wanting to check to make sure reviews aren't meaningless spam or something stupid. But I spend hours writing what I felt was a really good essay on an old film, which struck a chord with me because, as history likes to rhyme and repeat itself, the film felt starkly accurate for our
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To accidentally close the website while writing a review should save a draft
While writing a review, if you were to leave the site, or close the web browser by accident, you will not get a confirmation request. (Which is very common practice for web pages tagged as forms). Furthermore, the fact that movie reviews takes long to write makes it vital to have some sort of fail-
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My movie review was by far the most helpful/upvoted, but has been pushed down by 13 spots overnight
The movie I'm referring to is "The Deepest Breath". https://www.imdb.com/title/tt24132732/?ref_=ext_shr My review has almost 4x more upvotes than the next one in line and a bigger ratio of likes vs dislikes (250/310) than most (if not all) other reviews. And yet, overnight, it was downgraded consi
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Fallout (2024 ) TV Show - potential for review bombing
Fallout [link=tt12637874] Is looking to be a potential as a review bomb target. The Video Game is very popular, however, it was never stated that the TV Show hosted by Amazon, Sponsored by Bethesda Studios ( the Video Game Developer ) was going to follow the original story line at all. There
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Deleted review after some time of being there
Hi It seems this is happening to many people. A recent review of Everything, Everywhere all at once, was approved, had votes and was there for a few weeks has disappeared. What is strange is that there is no reference even to this. There is nothing in my list of reviews to inform me t
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'fake review' as choice by 'report this' form?
Is it possible to add a fake review option on report this?A lot of 1 star or 10 star review are posted by accounts that are less than a month old or 10+ old accounts that have a very big gap between the last post and the new one ( see https://www.imdb.com/user/ur2171885/?ref_=ur_urv for instanc
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Spider-Man: No Way Home review deleted multiple times
I posted about this in December. Since then my review for Spider-Man: No Way Home has been deleted four times. I made it clear by pressing the tab that it contains spoilers. I have tripled checked for profanities. It all seems to be within the rules. I have posted up to now almost ten th
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