Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I have written a sincere, thoughtful and detailed review for Masters Revelation and despite it being highly critical there aren't any slurs against anyone. It is definitely not as aggressive and unbalanced as many other reviews out there. However, IMDb keeps deleting it without any explanation whats

I recently reviewed the show "Star Trek: Discovery", and my review was rejected, telling me "Your contribution has been declined.We did not capture a specific reason during processing.".I would very much like to know why. There is no profanity in it, and I have seen way worse rants on IMDb. This is