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Is there something strange going on with the votes for 'Spellbound' (2024)?
The United States votes for 'Spellbound' (2024) look very odd to me. There seems to be a 10 vs 1 war going on, in a way that is not at all going on in any of the other countries. At the moment it's 79 votes for 10, 71 votes for 1. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7215232/ratings/ The last few days I checked it out, and every time the votes for 10 get a bit higher 1 follows swiftly. It seems like this is being bombarded with 1 votes on purpose. I don't know if there's something fishy going on here, but just to be sure I thought I'd put this out there so it can be checked out.
Bethanny
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28 days ago
Hi @capdeac -
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.
For more information on our abuse detection methods, or details about IMDb ratings and weighted averages, please refer to our Ratings FAQ.
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