I was quite unpleasantly surprised when IMDb refused to accept my Star Trek comment and I had to edit and re-edit it several times. First of all they now have a 1000 words limit. And second - you can't use "inappropriate words and phrases" and it doesn't even tell you WHAT is inappropriate! OK, I removed "Spock, you lucky bastard", and it still told me I'm being rude or something. Finally I fugured out that it's because of the "pissed off Romulans"... Like 3 days after the comment was finally published it got deleted. This time you do not get an e-mail notification. You see it yourself if you care to browse through your comment history.
The excuse: none!
Just some general note they post above every deleted comment:
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Interesting... Seems I'm not teh only one complaining... On the IMDb borads there's a topic:
All BAD REVIEWS of This Movie DELETED? Why? Censorship?
You can follow the topic here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0796366/board/thread/136867071?p=1
And my unedited Star Trek review is here:
http://nsg1138.blogspot.com/2009/04/movies-24-star-trek.html
2 comments:
Цензурата е неприятна, когато имаш какво да кажеш и с какво да покрепиш мнението си... Аз коментари там не пускам, но се случва да чета. За други филми също ли има подобна цензура?!
Ами не знам, но IMDb се е превърнала в авторитетна медия и източник на инфо, всеки масово чете ревюта и гледа рейтинти, а често хората си създават очаквания и предразсъдъци дори, и то преди да са гледали филма... Та аз да не ставам параноик, да вкарвам теории на конспирацията, но хич не бих се изненадал ако студията бутат някакви пари за да се контролира мнението на зрителите и да се прави реклама. Колкото и неетично и неморално да е, ако могат да си платят достатъчно от IMDb едва ли са чак такива идеалисти, че да откажат.
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