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Robyn Hood (TV Series 2023) ratings

You may or may not have another The Little Mermaid type incident brewing with a new release.
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Robyn Hood (TV Series 2023— ) ratings.
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The series has become a lightning rod of political ire and debate across social media platforms since it went to camera. A couple of recent articles for context.
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In the case of The Little Mermaid, the issue was handled as follows:
  • Unusual activity
  • Our rating mechanism has detected unusual voting activity on this title. To preserve the reliability of our rating system, an alternate weighting calculation has been applied.
This post is meant neither as praise nor disdain for the new series, it's simply to point out the activity and to mention it as a title to perhaps monitor internally and see if any patterns emerge and subsequent action needs to be taken.
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NOTE: Edited for line spacing.

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1 year ago

Hi @carter_hayes,


Thank you 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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Many thanks. The series appears to be under fire across multiple platforms.

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1 year ago

@carter_hayes 😀

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20918756/ratings/

Save for history??

Wayback Machine 

Fri Oct 6 2023

IMDb RATING 1.1/10  1.9K

10:    7.5%   (142)
  1:  85.7% (1.6K)

http://web.archive.org/web/20231006141739/https://www.imdb.com/title/tt20918756/ratings/

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Maybe 1,000 Voters registered on the same day??

            (Same person - many accounts)

Can IMDb see the Voter's IP address??

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The votes of 1 are now at 86.3% (1.8K). The episodes are suffering a similar pattern. Something to at least keep an eye on over time.

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1 year ago

Hello carter_hayes,

Thank you 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.