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Tell HN: Marketing companies are gaming IMDB reviews
Recently a lot of negative reviews are being removed from IMDb. Here is how the fake review guys are doing it.
IMDB says they are removed as they contain spoilers - but this is the latest thing film/series marketing companies that shill reviews are doing a as strategy -- got through and falsely report negative reviews as containing spoiler and once they use ten+ fake accounts to label a reviews as containing spoiler IMD algorithm just automatically removes it.
- speedgoose 5y agoThe other issue with IMDB for me is that reviews are international. As a Frenchman, I find SensCritique to have much better reviews. It's a bit like food, Americans, Italians, and Koreans will not appreciate the same restaurants.
- skytreader 5y agoI feel like IMDB is also to blame here. Why would it remove spoiler-laden reviews instead of just hiding them behind a UI toggle but keeping their rating part of the computed score?
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- muzani 5y agoYeah, you'd expect people who want to talk about why they like the movie to make more accurate reviews too.