Not enough evidence ?

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I submitted a movie review for The Last Jedi and it was declined with the reason of "not enough evidence." What exactly does this mean? Enough evidence for what? What's the point of writing a review if it's just going to be declined. Waste of my time. Thanks IMBd.
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Ed Jones(XLIX)

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Could you post the complete review here. Lets see if we can figure out what happened.
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Ed Jones(XLIX)

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Star Wars was a great franchise (well the Lucas Films still are and always will be). Too bad I was more than disappointed with the pathetic excuse for a "star wars" movie we got. There are so many loopholes and unanswered questions. Questions that we shouldn't need to wait years to get.

As another reviewer put it, the force is basically just magic now. I understand the idea of "let's trick people into thinking this way and surprise them," but you can't wait years in between the surprise. It's not a surprise anymore it's either just a lie or at least just bad story telling. You can do anything and everything with the force. These movies aren't real Star Wars. They're like watching a really high budget fan-fiction that was written by a 12 year old boy and his little sister in their tree house one warm summer because they weren't allowed to play inside and occupied their time with the screen play.

This stuff above is usable....I believe all the other stuff should be left out. It contained 3 Spoilers too. The "Deaths".

My opinion.
Those are all your words with no alterations other than a slight reorganizing.
Please don't be mad.
This is my honest opinion.
This also may leave you room for what was left out. General guideline: don't get carried away with the diatribe in the explanations of why it was bad. Less is more! Use less words to get across the same point. Two words example, Get across=convey. That is why Publishers have editors. You have to be your own editor and look at it as a third party.



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I know of no specific guideline against it, but making prognostications about the yet-to-be-made next installment in the series should probably be avoided.
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For a while, IMDb listed at the top of one's review page
all of their reviews that had been deleted. 
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Joined on September 18, 2013
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/people/imdbmember
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Does this old link still work ? ?
Change for your number
May or may not work if you enter another Users number

https://www.imdb.com/user/ur000000/comments-deleted
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DEEΡΞRSΗΛDΞS ofHOUΣΞ

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The link works, but I do not see my deleted review on there when I enter my UR number
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DEEΡΞRSΗΛDΞS ofHOUΣΞ

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Nope. All I see is the edited version of the review. 

Here is the url with the "Declined" version.

https://contribute.imdb.com/contribution/181104-030815-980904?ref_=pe_3181150_242625130
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Here is the url with the "Declined" version.
https://contribute.imdb.com/contribution/181104-030815-980904?ref_=pe_3181150_242625130
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Only IMDb staff can look at "181104-030815-980904"  numbers

and you do not need the "ref_=" here
that is for IMDb tracking

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Hi Vary Anomaly,

Thanks for your post.

Please remember that user reviews are subjective and the vetting process isn't always so simple. I can see this was your first review to the database, the review itself doesn't touch on much from the specific movie but instead generalizes the franchise (and upcoming speculations). This likely went some way to an editor rejecting the contribution. 

I would recommend re-submitting your review to be a little more focused on the title at hand and let us know if you experience any further issues with process.

I hope this helps. 

Joel 
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Ed Jones(XLIX)

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Thanks Joel.
I think all of us here said the same thing too.
Cheers