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Reporting fake ratings from a user from the United Kingdom who is making alt accounts trying to make episodes look negatively recieved

Some user from the UK is making alt accounts to make false 1-star ratings to make newer episodes from this show: SMG4 (TV Series 2011– ) - IMDb look like they were negatively received, and not only that, he also spammed 1-star ratings on top-rated episodes of the same show as well. I never got his username, but I’m pretty sure you probably know who he is, since you’re staff and I assume you know the usernames to people who rate stuff on the site. Anyways, can you please ban this guy and his IP, and get rid of the UK 1 star ratings on these pages, as these are false votes:

"SMG4" SMG4: Trust No One (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2023 (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: Super SMG4 Wonder (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: The Infestation (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: SMG3's BOMB CAFE (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: Mario Goes on Death Row (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: SMG4 vs Content Farms (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" REMASTERED64: Freddy's Spaghetteria (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: The Inspection (TV Episode 2023) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: Mario Opens a Can Of Beans (TV Episode 2024) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: You Used To Be Cool... (TV Episode 2024) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: CEO OF RIZZ (TV Episode 2024) - IMDb

"SMG4" REMASTERED64: WHO LET THE CHOMP OUT? (TV Episode 2024) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: SMG4 NEWS (TV Episode 2024) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: TRASH FRIENDS (TV Episode 2024) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: War Of The Fat Italians 2020 (TV Episode 2020) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: Mario's Train Trip (TV Episode 2017) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: War of the Fat Italians 2017 (TV Episode 2017) - IMDb

"SMG4" R64: Stupid Mario Kart (TV Episode 2017) - IMDb

"SMG4" SMG4: Mario goes to DIDNEY WORL (TV Episode 2017) - IMDb

"SMG4" R64: Mario's Road Trip (TV Episode 2017) - IMDb

"SMG4" SM64 Bloopers: SMG3's Gauntlet of Gloom (TV Episode 2016) - IMDb

"SMG4" SM64 Christmas 2015 - Christmas Crazies (TV Episode 2015) - IMDb

"SMG4" Grand Theft Mario - If Mario was in... GTA V (TV Episode 2015) - IMDb

"SMG4" SM64 bloopers: Luigi Labyrinth (TV Episode 2015) - IMDb

"SMG4" Mario Simulator Interactive! (500k subscribers) (TV Episode 2015) - IMDb

"SMG4" SM64 Bloopers: Smexy Soccer (TV Episode 2015) - IMDb

"SMG4" R64: Mario's Spageti Delivary (TV Episode 2014) - IMDb

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2 years ago

@Pewnay567​ 😀

@Bethanny. Employee
Hi @samuelachmann -
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
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.
For additional information about IMDb ratings and weighted averages,
please refer to our FAQ.
https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/ratings-faq/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV

Cheers!

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@ACT_1

Look this is what I'm talking about:

As you can see 10 out of the 11 1-star votes are fake and are by a user from the UK who is making alt accounts to make episodes look negatively received.

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@Pewnay567​ 😀

@Bethanny. Employee
Hi @samuelachmann -
Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
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.
For additional information about IMDb ratings and weighted averages,
please refer to our FAQ.
https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/ratings-faq/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV

Cheers!

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I was literally trying to get rid of fake votes

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I also want him and his IP banned so that never happens again

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2 years ago

Hi @Pewnay567 -

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.

Cheers!