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Fake Ratings by bots

I have been observing this since many movies and fake ratings by bots increasing. In all the last three movies by one of the biggest movie producer genre Yash Raj Films they are using massive more than 10k fake ratings and I am super surprised everytime that no one is doing anything on IMDB. You guys dont notice it at all or that studio is paying money directly to u? Samshera movie is on the verge of becoming great flop locally and getting more than 17k 9 ratings in 2 days? Movie is hardly doing business as expected in india and weekend had heavily raining all over as well. I guess this is happening again and again, no one actually cares, I wish to start showing proof on social media but though to post here once before posting on social media. We are on the verge of loosing faith on IMDB. Good luck

Movie Shamshera:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt8426926/?ref_=tt_urv

Movie: Samrat Prithviraj

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt9637132/?ref_=nv_sr_srsg_0

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4 years ago

Dear Team,

I have been using this site since years to find various reasons and observing your rating system as well. I have observed few films were not so successful and ratings were drastically increased by giving 9/10 using bots. I am sure about it but you guys can better check it. Few movies name are Samrat Prithviraj, Bachchhan Paandey, Heropanti 2 etc. I know there are more but these giant movie productions are manipulating ratings with money which is affecting our trust on this website. I am not sure if anyone is going to look out this issue or not but just some genuine observation from an old user of this website. 

Thank you

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Regarding frequent fake rating by bots

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3 years ago

Same is the case with Shabaash Mithu: Shabaash Mithu (2022) - IMDb

The rating was under 4 a week back with 500 votes and suddenly the paid bots (all rated 10) with 4.5k votes made it 7.4, how? The movie made less than 2 cr INR at the box office. Apparently, 4k people did not even watch it lol

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@Michelle Tagging you because you seem helpful :)

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3 years ago

@Michelle come on, please have a look at this one. I am stunned by the audacity of these fake rating bots. IMDB will become another mediocre garbage if these marketing people/Fake bots/fake actors are allowed to do this:

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Hi @honestcritik​ -

Thanks for reporting this title, I have filed a ticket for the appropriate team to investigate.

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3 years ago

Hi all-

This has now been solved.

Cheers!

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@Bethanny​ How it is resolved? We dont see any ratings removed from such movies. There are 10/10 in thousands for flop movies. Dont just close it. We dont turst IMDB now. There was a time when we used to check reviews of IMDB to decide whether to go for a movie or not. Now we cant do that as flop films are having 10/10 by thousands bots. lol. Good luck with that

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@intotheprags​ Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/ratings-faq/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV for more information on how the ratings are calculated and why automated votes are not the issue which you may think — just because a vote is shown in the detailed breakdown, does not mean that vote has any influence on the weighted rating which we display.