Data Issues & Policy Discussions
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Why does my review conflict with the IMDB submission policies?
The following review I posted for the movie The Man from Earth (2007) has been declined with the following explanation: "Reason: Does not meet contribution guidelines. Your contribution has been declined. Your submission conflicted with one or more of our policies as stated in our User Review Submi
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The Batman
My review of The Batman has gone. It meets with the rules, it had a lot of reactions. It has gone. I would like it to be reinstated with the reactions. I have had the same issues with my Spiderman: No Way Home review. That has never been reinstated when it was taken off a few weeks ago.
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Move keywords off the title page (keep link) to eliminate spoilers.
This topic has been addressed before, but a lot of time has passed and circumstances have changed, thus the new post.Various improvements to the title page have eliminated most spoilers. Reviews can be flagged by the contributor as containing spoilers, or reported by other users and then flagged
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Restoring the "literature" section for title pages
For some years IMDb had a Literature section for title pages. This was intended to include information about such items as: books that films were based on novelizations of films books about the making of a particular film printed reviews that were not available online and could not be link
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Incredible Bias of IMDb
THIS was submitted as a "Review" of the movie MURDER WITH MIRRORS. It is NOT a review of a the movie but instead a Political Rant that has NOTHING to do with the movie. Yet because it is a Leftist Rant, IMDb refuses to delete this nonsense. I THOUGHT reviews were suppo
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adjusting movies rating to give users a real feedback
I'm pretty sure this comes up quite often. But I did go through ALL the rating's FAQ, and after all, it sums up to this: Some movies rating (the recent, high budget ones) are systematically faked, and it shows. Let's take a practical example: the last avengers movie. I decided to Watc
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Why was my review declined?
It is extremely difficult for me to understand what IMDB's criteria is for declining a review. I have seen two sentence reviews that use no punctuation, are filled with spelling errors and often comment on what one of the actors looks like. But those reviews get accepted. Can someone explain to me w
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IMDb staff: Please approve this genre addition
I keep trying to get this genre addition approved, to no avail. I am convinced that certain genre edits are never reviewed by humans. Can this contribution be approved? Here are the details. Your Contribution 17 January 2023 #230117-010546
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Multiple spam "plot" outline deletions rejected as "unable to verify".
I was on the page for the BBC's Six O'Clock News today (https://contribute.imdb.com/title/tt0283794) As the title suggests, it's a news bulletin. On the BBC, before primetime, so quite stuffy. There were MULTIPLE spam tricks, including photos of toys added to the "images", etc. Just ludicrous stu
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Why was my review declined? Please advise.
To whom it may concern:As sometimes happens, my reviews are declined. Why they are declined is a mystery. I do not use all caps, I do not use vulgarities, I do not use exclamation points (or do so rarely). In this particular review, I used the word "hell." Is that against the rules?Here is the post
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