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Thursday, October 19th, 2023 7:19 PM

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‘In the Fire’ (2023) IMDb page is being review-bombed.

This is to report that, as seems quite apparent, the IMDb page for In the Fire (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17595094/) is being review-bombed as we speak.

Not only do the reviews that have been posted so far for the film show this (e.g. see this one titled "Amber Heard Terrible": https://www.imdb.com/review/rw9380613/?ref_=tt_urv), the skew in the ratings distribution also shows this (see: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17595094/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt). I mean, it is highly improbable that the vast majority of the predominant one star ratings are genuine ratings of the movie from people who have watched it rather than from a coordinated attack against the movie stemming mainly from Amber Heard's involvement in it.

Further evidence for this coordinated attack against the movie can be seen in the audience reviews of it in Rotten Tomatoes (see: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/in_the_fire/reviews?type=user&intcmp=rt-scorecard_audience-score-reviews), the vast majority of which are clearly from people who never watched the movie (some even admit it) and are just interested in review-bombing it as an attack against Amber Heard.

In short, the current IMDb rating for this movie cannot be trusted because evidence clearly indicates that it is the result of an internet-wide coordinated review-bombing campaign of the movie across multiple platforms, including IMDb, and not an honest reflection of what people who've watched the movie actually think about it. As such, I request that something be done to either remove and close the ratings presently and for a while longer, or to adjust whichever scoring system IMDb uses in order to take into account this extreme level of review-bombing for this particular movie (e.g. put much less weights on the one star reviews). Do something please. Be better than Rotten Tomatoes in curbing this because, evidently, they are no good at doing so at all.

As a side note, please do not reply with the stock answer that "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."

I ask this because, obviously, that "voting system" is not working. At all. It seems that it is not yet sophisticated enough to deal with such a extreme levels of attacks against movies, attacks that do nothing but prevent most users of IMDb from getting honest and clear portrayals of what the qualities of movies actually are instead of the socio-politics surrounding them and their crew members. 

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11 months ago

Hi @dani_fz -

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.

Regarding reviews, if you see any against our guidelines please use the 'Report this' button bellow them for our editors to review.

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For history:
Thu Oct 19 2023 

In the Fire (2023)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17595094/reference/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17595094/reviews   10 Reviews
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt17595094/ratings/  2.8 (2,003)
10   16.6% (333)
  9    1.0%  ( 21)
  8    0.9%  ( 18)
  7    0.9%  ( 18)
  6    1.8%  ( 36)
  5    2.0%  ( 41)
  4    2.3%  ( 46)
  3    2.9%  ( 59)
  2    4.9%  ( 98)
  1  66.6%  (1.3K)

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