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Friday, December 5th, 2025

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Reviews declined

Hi IMDb staff, I've been a regular contributor of external links and external reviews for years now with literally thousands of contributions to my name, and only for the last week or so have my contributions been routinely declined, with no explanation other than "other". The reviews in question are;

 #251128-231446-431000#251201-201132-783000#251202-215315-846000#251203-202657-202000#251204-205339-933000#251204-223330-891000

Could you please look into this? Thanks!

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Hello mikehaberfelner,

I have checked your submissions and the recent declines for the external reviews were because the URL led to an inaccessible website. I recommend to take a look and make sure that the provided links are still working and accessible.

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Thanks for this. Re-checked the links and they worked fine. Now have you actually manually checked any of these links? If so, and they didn't pop up, is there any error message or anything that might give me a clue why the links don't work on your end. I'm really desperate here to fix this if I can, but need some clue or something what's going wrong.

Thank you :)

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@mikehaberfelner- Hi,

Taking a look, all information submitted to IMDb, including links to external sites, is subject to editorial approval. Typically, for external links our preference is established and/or verified hosting platforms.

As they have to be verified which in this case, this particular site doesn't for us, it is why it cannot be added. 

Cheers!

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I'm sorry, but what? I've been adding external links and reviews for 20 years now and there has never be a problem, until very late last month. By that I want to say, isn't this a sign of my site being established. And if my site's not verified, whatever that means, how do I verify it? Please look into this and let me know what actions to take, as by your refusal to run my links you're not only hurting my brand but also the filmmakers who send me their films to review - and ultimately also your own brand for having turned into a gatekeeper site.

Thanks