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Saturday, November 20th, 2021 4:03 PM

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Blade Runner 2049 review bombarding

If you look at the reviews for Blade Runner 2049, there are a bunch of eerily similar reviews all written between May-November 2021 (four years after the film’s release). They all describe the film as being “boring” and give it a bad score.

This looks like someone is flooding the reviews with his opinion - why would it be that dozens of users just happened to decide to review this film now, four years after it came out? And every single one of them had the same exact review?

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It's not just Blade Runner. Quite  few shows are being plagued by "This Is Not [insert earlier work]" and "Clearly haven't read/ watched [insert source materiel" swarms.

What is worse is that Prolific Reviewer and Helpfulness have both become totally useless. A lot of "prolific reviewers" seem to be idiots of the above type. And any look at the "Helpfulness" versus actual votes shows the gaming going on, most likely by Reddit's Own Angry Virgins (it's not just here - there has been some horrific gaming of Rotten Tomatoes).

It's tiring and is slowly eroding the usefulness of IMDB. 

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@ianc_462199 I’m glad you have noticed this as well. Isn’t there something IMDb can do about this?

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3 years ago

Hi yungmoneylars -

I was unable to locate the duplicate User Reviews you reported for "Blade Runner 2049".  Can you post the usernames associated with these reviews?  Our staff can then investigate further.

Cheers!

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@Michelle I think that is the issue. The user is posting under different accounts. But I think it’s pretty clear there is a coordinated effort to flood the reviews. Just read them - they are very, very similar.

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Hi @yungmoneylars -

Apologies for the delayed reply.  As mentioned earlier, I was unable to locate the duplicate User Reviews you mentioned.  If you are still seeing these reviews, post the account usernames here associated with the duplicate reviews and our staff can investigate further.