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Sunday, October 20th, 2024 7:31 AM

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Obviously botting a movie in IMDb by either production houses or fan pages misguiding the audience.

 Martin (2024) - IMDb

So, the movie linked above is obviously botted as the genuine written reviews are way less than the rated reviews. Also, the disparity from 1-10 stars is so huge that makes it very-very obvious that this movie has been botted by either the production house or a fan page by bots to manipulate the genuine reviews of the movie. Also, as per the image I have provided how come there are way, way, way less votes in the section from 2-7 and large votes have been given from 8-10? Also, if you look into the 25 user reviews, most of them are criticizing the movie and blaming the botting to misguide the people watching this film. I request IMDb to please look into this matter as this really affects the credibility of this site as a whole. The makers have also allegedly doxed some reviewer homes and have threatened them after they published the review.

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Hi @Alex_Warlock -

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.

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@Bethanny​ Thank you so much for this. I am sorry to reply this late as I saw this tonight. Thank you for the quick response.

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Martin (2024) - IMDb

So, the movie linked above is obviously botted as the genuine written reviews are way less than the rated reviews. Also, the disparity from 1-10 stars is so huge that makes it very-very obvious that this movie has been botted by either the production house or a fan page by bots to manipulate the genuine reviews of the movie.

Also, as per the image I have provided how come there are way, way, way less votes in the section from 2-7 and large votes have been given from 8-10? Also, if you look into the 25 user reviews, most of them are criticizing the movie and blaming the botting to misguide the people watching this film.

I request IMDb to please look into this matter as this really affects the credibility of this site as a whole. The makers have also allegedly doxed some reviewer homes and have threatened them after they published the review.

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Obviously botting a movie in IMDb by either production houses or fan pages misguiding the audience.