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IMDb rating dropped significantly over night, although there have been more positive reviews

Hello, I looked at our IMDb rating on our show yesterday and it was sitting at 9 stars +. Since then, it looks like we've had more positive 9-10 star reviews on our page, though overnight, the average dropped down to 5.7. Though the actual average is 8.2. Is someone from IMDb able to take a look at this and fix this? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt27497339/

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Hi AGH123- Thank you for bringing this to our attention. We are aware that there are people who may vote for the sole purpose of trying to inflate/deflate the rating for a movie. We have several safeguards in place to automatically detect and defeat this type of ballot stuffing: even though we count and display all unaltered votes in the rating breakdown, we apply several countermeasures against all attempts to skew the rating for the weighted rating you see displayed on the site. We will review the title in question to ensure that the weighted average is displaying as intended. For more information on our abuse detection methods, or details about IMDb ratings and weighted averages, please refer to our Ratings FAQ: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/ratings-faq/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV Cheers!

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Hello AGH123 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 here: https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/ratings-faq/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV