IMDB reviews 600 words minimum. REALLY?

[justasking111]

What the hell is Amazon's point in now insisting on a 600 word review on IMDB. They don't insist on this if I buy Amazon batteries, mops, toys.

I just want to say something but 600 bloody words. Bezos has taken his eyes off the ball.

It's 600 characters, not words.

https://help.imdb.com/article/contribution/contribution-information/user-review-guidelines/GABTWSNLDNFLPRRH#

"The minimum length for reviews is 600 characters to ensure the most value to our users. Reviews which are padded with junk text will be discarded."

Seems a sensible move to me. Though there are some films where it would be a struggle- the awful film I saw many years ago about adult learning in west Yorkshire would be one. Presumably the Mrs Brown's Boys film if you had the misfortune to waste part of your life seeing it would require a thesaurus to use all the words to describe how bad it is.

Yeah, 600 characters makes much more sense but it's to stop someone just writing a review that only says 'Rubbish'. You have to give at least some justification and explanation.

Edited to add - the guidelines suggest that you don't have to leave a review, only that if you do it should be meaningful. Is that the case?

It's 600 characters, not words. 600 characters is nearer 100 words, which is not at all unreasonable.

600 characters is way too much. It never used to be this rule. When you just want to say xyz and then are stuck with padding. Amazon who own IMDB don't make this rule

600 characters is not exactly a long review. If you don't like it then you don't have to leave a review but I can see why they brought in a minimum amount. Reviews that are just a handful of words are pretty pointless and it's not exactly difficult to reach 600 characters once you've given your opinion and then backed it up with why you came to that conclusion.

But your short OP was about 250!
If you can’t be arsed to write just over double that on a film - then I wouldn’t really care about your opinion.
I think it’s a great rule.

I'm assuming no-one here understands précis

I understand you got it wrong between words and characters and you are too embarrassed to admit it.

This

No, we’re all stoopid.

You know that to intelligent people who are actually interested in film reviews, 600 characters is the précis?

There are other sites if your brain or attention span can’t cope with more than a visual of stars out 5 🤷🏻‍♀️

This is sooo stupid, people don't have time, or feel like writing 600 words. A review is a review. You need to go back to your old format. I see a lot of complaints, about the new rules, people aren't happy. I'm sure pretty soon, you won't be getting reviews. There are other apps for reviews.

I have used it about three or four times. Now I use YouTube or reddit, they don't have a limit. Imdb is stupid. Good bye.

Stupid, now I use to and reddit.