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IMDB Ratings Malfunction
Hello,
I directed a movie THE LAST DEAL (The Last Deal (2023) - Reference View - IMDb) and within the last month there has been manipulation with our rating by no doing of our own. I have zero control of people buying/manipulating ratings but it seems there's been an abundance of high ratings on the film which has caused the score to go down dramatically to a 5.0. I believe many of our legit ratings have been discounted because of this. It's very odd that a film with a high score on Rotten Tomatoes, plays on Starz/Encore and was one of the top films in The New York Times has a 5/10 rating? One rating/review recently posted on June 11th is word for word the same review the user has given 70 other movies (every movie they've reviewed actually). Can this issue please be looked into because it's dangerous when false ratings are given especially to indie films and the filmmakers are working to get future films made. As a side note, I've emailed twice about this but no response. Thank you!
gromit82
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3 months ago
Jonathan: To spell things out, the particular June 11 review you are objecting to can be found at https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9839636/ ("Probably the worst film ever, sleepy, with too many meaningless long shots ....")
And the reviewer's other reviews, which also call almost every other movie he has seen "Probably the worst film ever, sleepy, with too many meaningless long shots ...." can be found at https://www.imdb.com/user/ur160736111/
I have no comment on the ratings for your film; I just wanted to provide a link for the IMDb staff's use to the user who is giving film after film substantially the same review.
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Michelle
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3 months ago
Hi @Jonathan5922 -
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.
Lastly, concerning the duplicated User Reviews, these have all been removed and I have taken the appropriate actions toward the contributor responsible.
Cheers!
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