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Thursday, January 30th, 2025 7:39 PM

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How to deal with false ratings and false "fans"

I have a distopian future feature film that was in four film festivals, was nominated best film of the year by Marverick Movie Awards in 2019, and got an award of merit from Indiefest, called "Corporate Prey". That dystopian world is much closer in January 2025 than it was when produced. But there are certainly those who would disparage and denigrate it. When one goes to the main page it shows a 6.6 rating based on 21 ratings, but when one goes to the User Review page, ALL that shows is this troll rating of 1/10. That page will not show any of the other ratings. How is this even possible, and what can I do about it

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Hi @rabell, Thank you for your problem report. A review is not required for an individual to rate a title, therefore only the 1 user review is displaying as it is currently the only review submitted and live on this title. In regards to the title's ratings, our voting system already detects and defeats attempts to stuff the ballot and skew the rating. As demonstrated by the difference between the weighted average and the arithmetic mean on the vast majority of titles in the database. For additional information about IMDb ratings and weighted averages, please refer to our FAQ. Thanks!

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Why is it the only review LIVE when several others were previously submitted? Something is rotten here.

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Hi @rabell, Our records indicate this being the only user review submitted to this title. Please could you advise as to where other reviews may have been previously listed on this title? Cheers!

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Your records are inaccurate but how exactly am I supposed to know where they were listed if you don't? There were 21 ratings in total for a 6.6 average in spite of this fake review. Several of those rater's did reviews. Where did these go? How am I supposed to know, when you don't seem to? Somebody cooked the books. Given how much money Big Ag spends to cheat and lie to the public they might even have paid to hack your site.

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What is the Big Ag?

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Hi @rabell, We can see that there's only ever been 1 user review contributed to this title, which is currently live, and as of now, 21 ratings applied to the title. At least 20 of those ratings will have been applied without a review. We do not have any record of any such additional user reviews you're referring to. My previous response was to ask whether you could provide any evidence of any historical user reviews, apologies if this wasn't clear. Thanks!

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@Editor_Of_Swedish_Movies​ Short for "Big Agriculture". Think Monsanto/Bayer for example. I have science degrees and the damage done to the population by fake science is massive. I wrote the original novel because I came across a quote in a book attributed by the author (who I trust to tell the truth) to an unnamed Agribiz CEO back in the mid nineties: “I know exactly what my company is doing, and the devastation it is causing to thousands of lives…. I know, and I do not care.” “I know too that none of my shareholders care a rat's ass what I do, or how I do it, providing I keep them swimming in cash” (The Hope, p 174)That quote was the spur to my writing the novel "The Corporation" which I later turned into the movie "Corporate Prey". To say that the themes in that dystopian novel would not be popular with Big Ag is putting it mildly.

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@Editor_Of_Swedish_Movies Just remembered the movie has a connection to Sweden :-D. Rand is the hero: Rand Suspicion confirmed! ... When my dad came from Sweden, he was all fired up to save the world through crop science. Jill The "green revolution" would fix everything! "Feed the World". RAND Yeah. That was the dogma. When Mom died in the epidemic, Dad's world fell apart. (stares into distance ...) He buried himself in more research. Just before he died, he mumbled "What have we done?" Jill So you studied genetics — thinking you could undo the damage? RAND Kind'a naive, right? My proposals disappeared into a corporate memory hole. ... At least till you found them — which then led you to me. That part was a good thing!

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