Data Issues & Policy Discussions

Data Issues & Policy Discussions

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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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Are external reviews for adult films now banned?

I have a website that reviews all kinds of cult films with some genre-themed adult films included. I've never had any problem submitting urls for external reviews until now. My submission for tt0190705 keeps getting rejected with the message: "Reason Does not meet contribution guidelines. We were un

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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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users reviews for a movie title are about another movie

I was reading reviews about a Lebanese film called "Farah" (https://m.imdb.com/title/tt11883966/?ref_=vp_close) and I discovered that users talking about another Palestinian movie called "Faraha" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11555492/?ref_=vp_close) and they are a lot of reviews, is there any solut

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reviews for THE GREEN BORDER very skewed ?!?!d

why are the viewer reviews for THE GREEN BORDER so skewed in the ONE star category, but only from certain countries? has IMDB been hacked?

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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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Submit Your Reviews Through the iOS App!

(May 5) Please check out our latest iOS release, now available in the AppStore! We've added the ability to submit user reviews! On any released title, just tap the Share menu or navigate to the User Reviews page and tap "Add Review" to get started. Here are some screenshots to help you get started w

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Why some external reviews were removed?

Hello. I added some external reviews for this game released 1999. There were 11, but some were removed. Which is the reason? (Please note this is a old game so some web links were archived)

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Two missing reviews and ongoing harrassment

Hi, This is user bethany, but I had to make another account due to password issues. On the 9th April, a review of mine was suddenly deleted without warning. On Monday another was removed.  I am a prolific reviewer (TheLittleSongbird) and have no idea which one it is, so can't provide contribu

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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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