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My 1 star review titled " The whale stinks" was removed by Imdb


It was the review with the most upvotes and was online for almost half a year and now has been removed by Imdb. No criticism allowed. All remaining negative reviews are very mild/soft 1 star reviews. The site sucks now also rigging the votes is bizarre and means it is controlled by the big movie/media companies. Its over

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Presumably, the review must have been reported and found to be in breach of IMDb's guidelines. I strongly doubt A24 or Protozoa Pictures had anything to do with the decision.

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YOUR "REVIEW" IS THE EXACT KIND OF FALSIFIED NUMBER BULLSHIT THAT SHOULD BE REMOVED.

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kowalski i had no idea you are a fascist. good for you.

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WHATEVER YOU SAY,EDGELORD...1 IS INCORRECT EVEN IF YOU DISLIKED THE FILM.

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But Kolwaski, you would give TW a perfect 10. Would that also be incorrect or is a 1 always incorrect?

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1 IS FOR SOMETHING DEVOID OF ANY QUALITY...THE WHALE IS WELL SHOT,EDITED,ACTED,SCORED,WRITTEN,ETC...THE ONLY THING NOT LIKED ABOUT IT SEEMS TO BE GAY & MAYBE PLOT?...THAT IS NOT A 1...GIVING IT A 1 IS A TROLL JOB.

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True dat.... I will agree with ya, but maybe... just maybe, someone genuinely didn't like it and thought it was a one. I could see that happening. Most art is subjective anyway.

For example, I thought American Hustle was extremely average but a lot of people thought it was great.

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YOU DID NOT THINK IT WAS A ONE THOUGH.

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You are correct, I gave it a 7.7 out of 10 and posted that score in here not on IMDB. I thought it was a very solid film. But then again, I probably know more about movies than the OP. haha...

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So you really are a fascist, who supports censorship. If someone rated low a movie you love, it's okay to shut him up. Sad.

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WHO SAID I LOVE THE MOVIE...NOT ME...IT IS SIMPLY NOT A ONE...PERIOD...ANYONE RATING IT AS A ONE IS REVIEW BOMBING,TROLLING,WHATEVER..

NOW...ON TO MORE IMPORTANT BUSINESS...SO?...MISTER BOROMIR?...WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOWS?

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I don't think it's 1 but I don't think IMDb need to deleted review for these reason.

"WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOWS?"

Not very original, the Sopranos and The Wire are top 2.

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DUDE...THE SOPRANOS ROCKS...ONE OF THE FIRST SERIES I OWNED...SAD THAT GANDOLFINI IS GONE...I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE WIRE.

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Gandolfini's death was a shock. A top level actor and from what I heard a really nice man. You need to seen The Wire.

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What did u say in the review? It must have been really bad.

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Maybe post it here and see what people have to say about it - that way, you might find out why it was removed or you might get confirmation it was a bullshit move by imdb.

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IMDb changed drastically, they no longer believe in freedom of speech.

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Imdb was bought up by Amazon many years ago.

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This is pretty much it. I used to peruse IMDB for all of the comments and discussions and they took that away for BS reasons. I only use it now as a tool to keep track of which movies that I have watched (I have a huge "to watch" list).

Basically, giving people the power to discuss other TV shows and movies is something that their big corporates don't want people to have. IMDB used to be independent and it sold out many years ago.

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Same here, I agree. I see older comments from as long ago as 18 years when I first joined IMDB and the discussions are like talks you might have with your friends, reasoned and moderate, and then the trolls started coming too many to deal with, and why archive and store all that stuff. It's not only a huge amount of data, but you need massive infrastructure to be able to access it pull it up and update it.

Amazon did the same thing with their review space. You can review a product, but you cannot discuss it or disagee. Like many 1 star reviews are really reviewing their delivery experience, or complaining they got a broken product and had to send it back, or were too lazy or slow to send it back. The ones I love are the obvious ones where the user was too clueless to use the product so they gave it a one and badmouthed it.

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You can say that about the entire web. I'm old enough to remember when every site invited comments, and it was considered a core feature of the Internet experience. Around 2016 most of the comment areas disappeared, and the ones that remained became corporate and propagandistic, like IMDB's and RottenTomatoes'.

There was also a free browser addon that let you comment on every site, but Mozilla and Google's addon and extension stores, respectively, both banned it.

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The web was infinitely better when it was in the wild west phase, and corporations/modern PC groupthink weren't slithering into every aspect of it. Now it's a giant sanitized shithole. Areas with the ability to post freely without censorship are sadly few and far between.

For instance, you can barely post on Youtube anymore without your comments being hidden without your knowledge, for reasons which are unknown. I've spent extended periods of time rewriting/rewording comments in different ways to get them to go through, only to find out that totally innocuous phrases were triggering its idiotic filter.

Sometimes it's just completely random. And sometimes it's the most milquetoast 4-year-old "meanie word" that is apparently just beyond the pale for the bleeding hearts running the censorship machine. It's a struggle to have just basic friendly conversations, and you literally have to check every comment in an incognito window to confirm they went through. It's also insidious because most people don't even know that their comments are being filtered as there is no notification of it happening. They still show up on your end.

Then you have trash heaps like Reddit, where there not only is censorship, but a self-regulating hivemind that stamps out all original thought. The fact that certain people are waving their arms around because Elon has dared to keep X even remotely non-partisan and free in thought is very concerning. The future looks dim indeed.

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IMDB boards got filled with trash. People misused them, and Amazon or IMDB did not have the money, manpower or inclination to archive all that BS forever. Can't really blame them.

Similiar for YouTube. If I go to some video on YouTube there are all 100% fake positive comments. It's absurd, on some of the comments sections I have scrolled through every one just out of curiosity. You world perceptions are being manipulated by something, while Elon Musk and the folks who are doing it are all talking about free speech,

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Capitalism is steamrolling over all of us.

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Ever notice how EVERY MARVEL/DISNEY MOVIE on IMDB gets an 8/10?

Their ratings system holds no value whatsoever. Also, Rotten Tomatoes reviewers are beholden to the film producers to give good reviews.

Just like video game "reviewers" (If they exist anymore *cough Gerstmanngate*) They exist solely to promote the games theyre reviewing. They aren't allowed to give negative critical reviews.

If you do give negative review such as the case with Ghostbusters 3, you'll be accused of sexism. If you'll remember, when Ghostbuster: Afterlife came out, with it's all female cast, you were not allowed to dislike it.

If you disliked that movie, you were called a horrible person and sexist. It has nothing to do with how horrible the movie was. It's about the studios ramming another project down our throats, through endless promotion budgets. They can't afford to let their films fail. They simply don't care whether it's good or not, all they care about is the ticket and streaming sales.

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Hey, you can always post it here too.
Fuck IMDB!

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