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Dundee ratings bombing...

I was just checking the entry for a Sunday choir show on the BBC, "Songs of Praise". None of the episodes have ratings, because who's going to rate a choir show? All, that is, except one, "Dundee".... https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1786156 2.2/10 with 28 votes. It's a series where no other episode has a listed rating, but this one inspired 17 people to score it 1/10. This reminded me of a mystery I discovered a few months back, where a week of episodes of Come Dine With Me also had a strangely high number of voters/low score. This includes one where FORTY-SEVEN people rated it 1/10: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1449490 Only 10 out of over 2000 Come Dine With Me episodes have a minimum amount of votes rating, and half are all for that week. And where was that week of Come Dine With Me set? Dundee. Odd, isn't it?

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Hi MovieCat- Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are aware that there are people who may vote for the sole purpose of trying to inflate/deflate the rating for a movie. We have several safeguards in place to automatically detect and defeat this type of ballot stuffing: even though we count and display all unaltered votes in the rating breakdown, we apply several countermeasures against all attempts to skew the rating for the weighted rating you see displayed on the site. We will review the titles in question to ensure that the weighted average is displaying as intended. For more information on our abuse detection methods, or details about IMDb ratings and weighted averages, please refer to our Ratings FAQs: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/ratings-faq/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV Cheers!

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Thank you. I wonder what people have against Dundee? I forgot to add it to the post, but if you didn't see, the Songs of Praise episode was called "Dundee" and set there.

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I was just curiously looking at other series that also feature Dundee. Take this series, "Murdertown". I've never seen it, but they all seem to be popular..... except for the episode set in Dundee, which has over 70 1/10 votes against it: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9630328 It's as if there's someone from a rival town stirring up a voting pool (or using bots to multi-vote) saying to him or herself "Ay, hen, I'm nae havin' Dundee with a high vote." It's beyond coincidence at this stage, surely?

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@MovieCat- Thank you! This has been added to the report.

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Curious, isn't it? They must correlate somehow.

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