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Thursday, January 9th, 2025 2:36 PM

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Spam / Bot rating

Yesterday I received 70+ 1 star reviews from what appears to be a bot. Is there any way to report this so it can be removed if not true users? Find it odd that they all came in at the same time for 1 star. 

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt14164156/?ref_=ext_shr_lnk

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8 days ago

Hi Daniellelrusso-

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Our voting system already detects and defeats attempts to stuff the ballot and skew the rating, as demonstrated by the difference between the weighted average and the arithmetic mean on the vast majority of titles in the database. For additional information about IMDb ratings and weighted averages, please refer to our FAQ.

Cheers!

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Hi- thank you for the reply. The concern is that the main rating for the movie now dropped from an 8 to a 4 overnight and this is what is seen on google and immediately on the page vs the weighted result. It reflects poorly and has a lot of impact on future work especially for an indie. Is there any other route to rectify this?

thank you 

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@Daniellelrusso​ Your welcome! 

As mentioned above, our voting system already detects and defeats attempts to stuff the ballot and skew the rating.

You are welcome to review further details on this Help Guide.

Cheers!