Ratings- Attack on Titan / One Piece / Bleach

Hi @Mihawktop1 -

Thanks for reporting.  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.

Our voting system is continually improved in this respect so you can rest assured that abuse is always automatically detected and thwarted.

I hope this addresses your concerns.

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt28704920/ratings/?ref_=m_login

This review From one piece 1074 despite having a lot of 10/10 and few Review Bomber still in 9.7. I calculated it, it's supposed to be 9.8. Please respond quick and resolve it

Dear IMDb

As a long time user of this site, it seems that this site has no protection against review bombing and as such it's ratings are very unreliable. The users simply rate episodes 2/10 instead of 1/10 to avoid rating protection

Some recent victims of these are Attack on Titan and One Piece episodes

Some groups on discord with thousands of users decided to review bomb both shows overnight and it is working massively

An Attack on Titan episode which was 9.9/10 for the past 3 years has been review bombed to 9.8/10 in just one night. From being in top 3 episodes of all time on IMDB to being out of the top 20:

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt10023374/?ref_=m_ttep_ep_ep18

The latest episode of Attack on Titan which was also 9.7/10 has been bombed to 9.6 in just one night

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt21357640/?ref_=m_ttep_ep_ep29

The users are on Twitter and discord bragging about how they've figured out how to review bomb the shows by rating it 2/10 instead of 1/10...

Some users have created over 300 accounts to get the ratings of all episodes below 9/10

But it's a shame that the rating protection on this site has not been improved to protect ratings against bots and new accounts

Hi!

Thanks to all for bringing this to our attention.

Our staff in charge of the voting system will look at this at the earliest opportunity.

Though no immediate action may be taken, all reports are carefully examined so please rest assured that this will help us fine-tune and improve the effectiveness of our voting system.

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hi, since the past 3 days there have been suspicious activities on the high rated episodes of attack on titan, mainly "midnight sun" and the final chapters: special 1

there rating have suddenly drop due to mass review bomb and according to intel i gather those people are planning on review bomb every episode of attack on titan, please look into it as you did when breaking bad's "osymandias" was review bombed.

It's quite sad that this site isn't doing anything about review bombing.

I alerted the mods/admin here about a massive planned reviewbombing on all Attack on Titan episodes but you have done nothing about it since. 

In another 24 hours, many other episodes of the show have faced this issue but you have done nothing about it

It seems only Ozymandias gets protected on this site while other shows are open to being reviewbombed.

A simple check on the review trend of all episodes of Attack on Titan for the past 48 hours will easily show that the show is getting a planned massive reviewbombing but the admins on this site are doing nothing about it

A discord channel was created about 2 days ago solely to review bomb all episodes of the show

https://m.imdb.com/title/tt2560140/episodes/?season=4

It's quite sad that the admins refuse to do anything about this as glaring as it is. Only Ozymandias gets protected from reviewbombing

Please the user does not represent all Attack on Titan fans. I hope something is done to protect both shows.

I hope something is done to protect the ratings of both Attack on Titan and One Piece from the review bomb brigade

Hi All -

Just circling back here to confirm that both reported titles are on our radar and there is an open ticket (#V1029430696) that our voting system staff will investigate shortly.

A discord group that currently has over 6000 members was created by a user called AMIR solely to reviewbomb all attack on Titan episodes...

They create thousands of IMDB accounts and reviewbombed every episode of the show and brag about it

Today, the last two highest rated Attack on Titan episodes that were 9.9/10 fell to this reviewbombing.

5 days ago, Attack on Titan had six episodes rated 9.9/10 and today it has none

Many people have reported this, yet there is still no fix. All Attack on Titan episodes including those from many years ago have fallen in ratings.

Please fix this to show the integrity of this site.

A simple suggested fix is to give AOT rating protection or remove all ratings from the past 1 week.

Why is the support not responding when it sees this farce and the catastrophe that occurred in the attack on the episodes of attack on titan with many attacks to reduce its rating, and they succeeded in reducing all the ratings of the episodes in one week?? Why is col_needham not responding to this noise and fixing the problem just as he fixed the problem with the Breaking Bad episode when its rating dropped a year and a half ago? We now need the system to update, fix the problem and remove all offensive votes.

Multiple users have ALREADY brought this issue to light in popular, informative posts like these:

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/attack-on-titans-high-rated-episodes-have-been-getting-review-bombed/64f984bc35e0d576dc4b4c0a?commentId=64f99b3335e0d576dc4b5667&replyId=64fcb83235e0d576dc4c098d

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/bleach-thousandyear-blood-war-and-all-its-episodes-are-being-reviewbombed/64fcae072074f313ba23a527

and we will CONTINUE to bring it up until it is RESOLVED. I don't want a bot-like non-answer about how the "voting system already detects and defeats attempts to stuff the ballet and skew the rating". Do you think we're blind? We are informing you of this issue PRECISELY BECAUSE THERE IS VOTE MANIPULATION BYPASSING YOUR SUPPOSED SYSTEM. How is it that just in the last few days so many of these two anime's episodes have fallen in rating and their score percentages are drastically shifting with high rates of 1/10s and especially 2/10s? The kid behind this botting campaign isn't even hiding it. In fact, he's made it his whole personality. So there is no room for doubt about a horde of One Piece fans being responsible. Does IMDb not have an answer to botting wars or is this a case of selective bias? I don't understand why there's no clear communication about this issue and why it isn't being resolved with high priority when it jeopardizes the very integrity of the site. Surely IMDb doesn't want to have the reputation that its rankings are run by mobs.

This week, a group  of One piece fans  launched a campaign to downvoting the all the attack on titan episodes on Twitter and Discord. They downvote seven episodes with a 9.9 rating. So i wish you to return the episodes as they were and give it a protection.

Thank you.