Bug in Advanced Search (Filtering by number of votes / user ratings doesn't work right)

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Yesterday everything worked fine, but now when I try to search for films that have at least 1 vote or a rating of at least 5, I get in the results films that weren't released yet and have no rating/votes.

http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=feature&num_votes=1,&sort=year,desc
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=feature&user_rating=5,&sort=year,desc
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Posted 5 years ago

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Hi Guy,

Thank you for reporting the problem. I've was able to confirm the problem.

The compact view of these searches indicates that unreleased films have votes. This has the side effect that unreleased films appear this search.

Latest Feature Films With At Least 1 Votes
http://www.imdb.com/search/title?title_type=feature&num_votes=1,&sort=year,desc&view=sim...

I will flag this for staff attention.
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Guy

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Thanks!
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This should be fixed now, thanks for the problem report. 
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Guy

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Confirmed as fixed :)
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Dan Dassow, Champion

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Thanks Col, I've also confirmed that this is fixed.
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Guy

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The problem came back.
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Guy

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Did someone take note that it came back? :)
(I don't know how to change the Solved status of the thread)
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Guy,

FYI: Only people with admin rights can change the status of a thread.
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Sorry about this; we are looking into this again. 
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Col,

Thank you again.

When a problem recurs after it has been resolved and the thread has been marked resolved:
1. Would you and your staff prefer that users post in the same thread, or
2. Start a new thread and reference a original thread?
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Please always start a new thread.  

We systematically look at open threads, but it is pure luck if any follow-up on a resolved thread gets seen at all. 
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Col,

Thank you for the clarification.
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... it is pure luck if any follow-up
on a resolved thread gets seen at all
.
I can show you one example -- from among a number of others, I'm sure, though I can only give you this one at the moment -- of an unsolved problem post that was incorrectly marked "solved" after the first reply appeared.

https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/imdb-trailers-on-firefox-40-0-3#reply_16183046

I wrote:
Why do admins on this board mark problems "solved" before the OP even had time to respond to the first reply?

(And why does the "solved" status tag remain uncorrected for weeks after the OP said the problem has NOT been solved?)
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This is fixed (again) now, thanks.  It was at least a completely different form of the problem behind-the-scenes rather than the same root cause.
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Confirmed as fixed (again) :)
Thanks!

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