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Friday, September 20th, 2024 9:19 AM

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Another movie (Gunner (2024)) inundated by obviously-fake positive reviews

Much like @sushr's post a few months ago, I noticed a surprising number of glowingly-positive, 10/10 reviews for a movie which, by all accounts... is not very good.

Gunner has a 3.2 IMDb rating (yikes) and a number of organically-posted reviews, positive and (mostly) negative, from established IMDb users.

But for such a low-rated movie, it's a bit suspicious that thirty-three of its 54 total reviews are 10/10 glowing praise, almost exclusively from brand new users whose account was created the same day they left the review, and who have never reviewed or rated another movie since.

In fact, sorting the 10/10s by "prolific reviewer" (as I have in my last link, above) shows that exactly two of the 33 reviews were posted by users who've reviewed one other movie, and have an account more than one month old. (IOW, presumably "real" reviewers.) The remaining 31 reviews are ALL from those brand new, single-purpose accounts.

Reporting them individually is... not really a time investment I'm looking to undertake, hope you understand.

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2 months ago

Hi @FeRDNYC,

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.


Our staff in charge of the voting system will look at this at the earliest opportunity (ticket ref. #D162556297). Although no immediate action may be taken, all reports are carefully examined so please rest assured that this will help us fine-tune and improve the effectiveness of our voting system

Cheers!

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Hello FeRDNYC,

Thank you for your patience. Our team is actively investigating this issue. As soon as there is an update, we will provide an update here.

Employee

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Hi @FeRDNYC,

Thank you for your continued patience.

I can confirm our team's investigation concluded that our rating mechanism is working as intended for this title, and that the reported reviews do not violate our guidelines. As such, there is no action necessary to take here. For more information on IMDb ratings, please see our FAQ.

Cheers!