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Bogus low star ratings by the same person

I have a stalker. Let's start there. Fifteen years of this going on. More usernames and accounts than you can shake a stick at. Whenever I have a new project going, she immediately comes here and leaves either one-star or four-star ratings to get out numbers down.  This time it's a new series streaming on Amazon Prime Video. It's blatantly her and she did literally the exact same thing on Amazon. She is a very sick person. Ten years ago, I had a series and she did it here and I was able to contact someone at imdb and they removed all her stuff because all her accounts had the same IP address. But I can't find a way to contact anyone here anymore. Anyone have any ideas how to deal with it because it really stinks and should not be allowed. To be clear, she's never seen the show.

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3 years ago

Am I doing something wrong. Wrote a long post this morning about an issue I'm having and I don't see it anywhere.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Why is the post I made this morning not there?

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3 years ago

Hi @whitesheik -

In order for our staff to investigate, can you confirm the IMDb title page where you suspect there are bad ratings?

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@Michelle​ Yes, here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22505564/reference/

This woman, the minute she sees a new ten-star rating comes in and leaves another one-star rating under her many usernames - I also found an email address to write you guys and I listed about ten usernames she uses along with her real name - it's just not right.

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Hi @whitesheik​ -

Thank you for the additional information.

Our staff in charge of the voting system will look at this at the earliest opportunity.  Though 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

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@Michelle​ So far nothing has been done, she's come back and left a review now - she's crafty in how she does this - five stars so she can add that to the splash page, too, and then all her criticisms in the review ONLY about - me, the writer. This is what she does - on Amazon and elsewhere. Check the IP addresses of the one-star ratings and the review - unless she's using different computers. She lives in Wyoming, she has tons of user names. It's very upsetting to know she can continually get away with this. A decade ago she did the same thing on another series of mine - all those one-star ratings on this page are her and so are the other low ratings, I believe. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2579770/ratings?ref_=tttr_ql_op_4

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Hi @whitesheik​ -

My apologies for the delayed response.  Thanks for this additional information, I can confirm that a ticket was filed for the staff in charge of the voting system for review.  Though no immediate action may be taken, all reports are carefully examined.