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Thursday, July 24th, 2025

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The highest rated episode list has several fake reviews from Turkey

So, I like to check the highest rated episode list on IMDB just for fun sometimes, but lately, I've been seeing a lot of fake rated episodes to a random Turkish series where the reviews for the actual series don't tend to match the episodes. The episodes have almost no reviews, and every single show on the list below coincidentally is from Turkey. It's been driving me mad for the past few months, and the fact that these are all Turkish and almost every episode of the series is ridiculously high if it's over 1k reviews. However, if there's less, considering the show's actual popularity, it is pretty average or incredibly low. But some Turkish company clearly must've paid a lot to get a ton of their stuff highly rated. Sure, this is just the TV shows that I could find with my time, but there are a TON of Turkish stuff getting ridiculously high ratings in an unreasonable amount of time. I humbly ask that IMDB fix this problem soon, cause this is just straight up paid and fake reviews creating way more misinformation. Plus it doens't help that some fraudlent reviews put these random episodes that don't even have titles above some of the finest television. And for less well-known series such as Amphibia's "True Colors" that actually deserve more attention are swept under by the Turkish Soap Operas that no one has bothered to actually see. Please delete all these fake ratings so the integrity of this rating system can actually be maintained. Here are the most prominent series on the list I could find so far: -Under the Trees [tt0489902] -Asi [tt1147691] -20 Dakika [tt2544148] -The Rose and the Thorn [tt0424754] -Kaan Sekban'la Alt Tarafi Bi' Talk Show [tt16711782] -Gönülçelen [tt1618952] -Brave and Beautiful [tt6162588] -Beyaz Show [tt1224142] -Çarkifelek [tt5610466] -Bi' Kahve 2 Sohbet [tt31369068] -Another Self [tt14899624]

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Hi dr0thewalrus8002- 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!