I would like some help from the IMDb community.
I posted a review of Murder on the Orient Express. On the "best" reviews page for the movie, my review was ranked #5 (out of over 200 user reviews). So it was very popular among IMDb users who obviously found my review useful. It was knowledgable, informed and insightful.
I just learned that my review has been deleted for "abuse." I have looked at the guidelines and I do not see how my review has violated the guidelines in any way.
I feel as though my review was targeted and removed for political reasons, because I called the movie out on a number of topics that are highly contentious today. Namely, that the movie distorted the original work by adding stereotypical male and female tropes and creating madonna/whore lampshade characters (a "lampshade" female character is a well known term among media analyst circles) and adding psychopathic and predatory characteristics to the male characters that were not in the original work. And it appears many IMDb users agreed with me.
This removal of my review seems to me to be based in biased judgment that is inappropriate censorship. My review was statistically popular and valued by the IMDb community and I believe it has been removed because of the biases of the person reporting it as "abusive" and of whatever editors reviewed the complaint. I want to reach out to the community, because I think this is a serious ethical issue. How can I appeal this? Or can I at least be told what in the VERY popular review was deemed "abusive?"
The only clues I have is that there is a prohibition against writing sentences in all-caps. I made some words all caps for emphasis, but I did not write any whole sentences in all caps.
Another guideline is not to be spiteful. My language was pointed, but not spiteful. I did refer to Agatha Christie's strong views on the subject (she was definitely was very clear about her disdain for people distorting her work in just this way). So removing the review is also silencing Agatha Christie, as well.
Spite is in the eye of the beholder and people who are not used to hearing a gender analysis of media and are unfamiliar with how gender tropes are problematic may--incorrectly--hear such an analysis as "spiteful." The irony here is that Agatha Christie PREDICTED that someone WOULD do exactly THIS! (That's an example of how I used all caps). Pervert her work and then gaslight the people pointing that out. And that's exactly what IMDb has done.
Consider how many people believed the women reporting sexual harassment were just being "spiteful." My concern is that that same mindset is causing unethical decisions in the IMDb editing community. Is IMDb just another male dominated media platform that hears women's world view as "abusive" for speaking truth to power?
My goal here is to have the review reinstated, with all of the user votes it had before. I would be happy to edit out any material that is not appropriate, if missed something about the guidelines that I violated. But I'm just not seeing it.
I posted a review of Murder on the Orient Express. On the "best" reviews page for the movie, my review was ranked #5 (out of over 200 user reviews). So it was very popular among IMDb users who obviously found my review useful. It was knowledgable, informed and insightful.
I just learned that my review has been deleted for "abuse." I have looked at the guidelines and I do not see how my review has violated the guidelines in any way.
I feel as though my review was targeted and removed for political reasons, because I called the movie out on a number of topics that are highly contentious today. Namely, that the movie distorted the original work by adding stereotypical male and female tropes and creating madonna/whore lampshade characters (a "lampshade" female character is a well known term among media analyst circles) and adding psychopathic and predatory characteristics to the male characters that were not in the original work. And it appears many IMDb users agreed with me.
This removal of my review seems to me to be based in biased judgment that is inappropriate censorship. My review was statistically popular and valued by the IMDb community and I believe it has been removed because of the biases of the person reporting it as "abusive" and of whatever editors reviewed the complaint. I want to reach out to the community, because I think this is a serious ethical issue. How can I appeal this? Or can I at least be told what in the VERY popular review was deemed "abusive?"
The only clues I have is that there is a prohibition against writing sentences in all-caps. I made some words all caps for emphasis, but I did not write any whole sentences in all caps.
Another guideline is not to be spiteful. My language was pointed, but not spiteful. I did refer to Agatha Christie's strong views on the subject (she was definitely was very clear about her disdain for people distorting her work in just this way). So removing the review is also silencing Agatha Christie, as well.
Spite is in the eye of the beholder and people who are not used to hearing a gender analysis of media and are unfamiliar with how gender tropes are problematic may--incorrectly--hear such an analysis as "spiteful." The irony here is that Agatha Christie PREDICTED that someone WOULD do exactly THIS! (That's an example of how I used all caps). Pervert her work and then gaslight the people pointing that out. And that's exactly what IMDb has done.
Consider how many people believed the women reporting sexual harassment were just being "spiteful." My concern is that that same mindset is causing unethical decisions in the IMDb editing community. Is IMDb just another male dominated media platform that hears women's world view as "abusive" for speaking truth to power?
My goal here is to have the review reinstated, with all of the user votes it had before. I would be happy to edit out any material that is not appropriate, if missed something about the guidelines that I violated. But I'm just not seeing it.
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