Formal escalation: tt35512499 — vote total increased from approximately 3,200 to 4,400 without title-specific review confirmation

Hello IMDb Team,

This is a formal follow-up and escalation concerning the voting integrity and weighted rating of “7 Dogs” (tt35512499).

Title page:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35512499/

Ratings page:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt35512499/ratings/

Previous closed report:
https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/repeated-thursday-rating-fluctuation-for-7-dogs-weighted-average-review-request/6a48efa943a02739e5adb20f

My previous report was closed after I received a general explanation about IMDb’s automated voting safeguards.

However, the central title-specific question I asked afterward was never answered:

Has tt35512499 itself been reviewed by IMDb’s voting/rating integrity team?

There is now significant new information that was not available when the previous report was opened.

Since then, the visible total vote count has increased from approximately 3,200 to approximately 4,400.

Despite this substantial amount of additional voting activity, the displayed weighted rating has remained effectively unchanged, and no IMDb employee has confirmed that this specific title was individually reviewed.

I understand that IMDb uses a weighted average rather than a simple arithmetic average. I also understand that visible votes may not all receive the same influence when IMDb detects unusual activity.

I am not requesting:

- A manually selected rating.
- Disclosure of IMDb’s formula.
- Removal of legitimate negative opinions.
- Preferential treatment for this film.

The increase in the total vote count does not, by itself, prove manipulation or a technical error.

However, when combined with the previously documented recurring update pattern, the continued growth in voting activity, and the absence of any title-specific review confirmation, it provides a reasonable basis for an integrity review of this title.

Only IMDb has access to the internal signals needed to determine whether the new activity represents genuine post-release voting, coordinated voting, automated activity, duplicate activity, or another abnormal pattern.

Therefore, a general explanation of IMDb’s safeguards cannot resolve this report. The question is whether those safeguards and the weighted calculation are functioning correctly for tt35512499 specifically.

FORMAL REQUEST

Please escalate tt35512499 to the appropriate voting/rating integrity team for a title-specific review.

Please verify:

- Whether legitimate new votes are continuing to be incorporated normally into the weighted rating.

- Whether suspicious voting clusters or coordinated activity exist at either the low or high end of the rating scale.

- Whether any earlier anti-abuse adjustment remains active in a way that may unintentionally reduce the influence of legitimate later voting.

- Whether a recalculation, refresh, caching, batch-processing, synchronization, or title-specific weighting issue is affecting the displayed result.

- Whether the current weighted rating is displaying as intended after the title’s more recent voting activity.

If coordinated, automated, duplicate, or otherwise invalid voting is identified, please take the appropriate corrective action.

This should include removing invalid votes where IMDb policy permits, or fully excluding and neutralizing their influence in the weighted calculation, regardless of whether the invalid activity was intended to increase or decrease the rating.

After any necessary corrective action, please refresh or recalculate the displayed weighted rating in accordance with IMDb’s normal process.

COMPARABLE IMDb TREATMENT

In comparable IMDb Community reports, IMDb employees explicitly stated:

“We will review the title in question to ensure that the weighted average is displaying as intended.”

Examples:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/imdb-ratings-malfunction-son-of-sardaar2/68e7f04053b7872ee1d66d29

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/i-have-noticed-that-the-imdb-voting-count-seems-to-be-frozen/683df94140333655d36125ec

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/fake-ratings-for-movie-httpswwwimdbcomtitlett28812582ratingsref_tt_ov_rat/687537ee7f4d2f434c15d2cc

I am requesting the same title-specific procedural treatment, not a predetermined rating outcome.

Please keep this report open until IMDb provides one of the following title-specific outcomes:

- The title was reviewed, no voting-integrity or technical issue was found, and legitimate new votes are being processed normally.

- The title was reviewed, an issue or invalid activity was identified, and appropriate corrective action was taken.

- The title has been escalated to the appropriate team under a case or reference number, with the result to follow after the review.

If IMDb decides that a title-specific review is not warranted, please provide a title-specific explanation for that decision.

Please do not mark this report as solved solely by providing the Ratings FAQ or a general description of IMDb’s automated safeguards.

Those explanations do not answer whether tt35512499 itself has been reviewed or whether its legitimate new voting activity is being incorporated correctly.

I understand that IMDb may be unable to disclose individual accounts, internal detection methods, or the exact quantity of invalid votes.

I am only requesting confirmation that the title was actually reviewed and that any invalid activity or technical issue discovered during that review was addressed.

Thank you.