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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Why have all reviews for Lillee Jean Live been deleted?
The majority of these reviews were valid and did not break ToS. What gives?
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Why are my reviews being declined now?
I've been writing reviews on IMDB for many years with no issues at all but the last three reviews I've written have all been declined! I just wrote one for "May December" and can't find anything whatsoever in my review that falls under the guidelines (231203-034407-022904) that would cause it to be
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Why are my reviews not being posted???
Why are none of my reviews appearing? I dutifully spend time writing reviews and NONE of them are being published. I get sent an acknowledgement and now, although it says you can check your status, there is no status to check and no review ever appears. I am breaking no rules with them: no swearing,
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Reviews not published
I am writing to ask why some of my reviews are not published. I can understand if there is something improper in them (I try to make it "clean and readable", but I am usually very descriptive and may, at times, be too graphic... I don't know. Again, I understand if some of them are not suitable fo
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Instantly declined reviews
Everytime I try to upload a new review it keeps getting instantly declined. I'm currently in the middle of transferring all the reviews I've made in my life onto the platform so perhaps I have gotten some sort of automatic ban? I didn't get any email or notification about it though so I'm really not
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Ratings Versus Reviews Inconsistency
Not sure if anyone knows how to fix this but I have posted 3306 reviews but IMDb shows that I have posted 3307--one review more. Additionally, IMDb shows I have rated 3306 films (which is the correct number). So, I believe what has happened is that there was a review that I edited (for punctuation,
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user reviews
Since the time when IMDb revised the menu dropdown order on the user review page, no one is reading my reviews, which now number 196 and focus on classic films from WW2 through the end of the Viet Nam War era in the 1970's. The feedback (helpful/not helpful) numbers of my reviews, both positive AND
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Why the heck my reviews been declined without any reason?
I submitted not one, not two, but bloody f three reviews, and all three reviews declined without giving any bullshit reason? I have seen there are reviews very similar to mine, how come they were published? Where is the freaking freedom of speech? My reviews didn't even contain any spoilers. IMDB
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Reviews not showing up
Hi, I submitted three reviews today, but while my contribution history says all three have been approved none of them are showing in my review profile. Is there a reason for this to happen, this has happened more than once over the years and it is very confusing when it does happen. Please can th
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My Reviews Aren't Up?
Hello, a few days i reviewed two movies, one movie was pretty good Ichi the Killer, and the second one is probably the worst thing I have ever had to sit and watch, Dogtooth. Well, I am checking and neither of my reviews got posted? Is something happening with my account? Please help. Thank you. I h
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