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Seemingly Unfair Rating
I have a problem/question about a film's rating being downgraded due (apparently?) to unusual voting activity. The film is "The Essence of Eva," a documentary about the late Washington DC singer Eva Cassidy. It recently had television broadcasts on WETA, the PBS station in the Washington, DC, area. This resulted in a bunch of new ratings, mostly high, which had the unexpected effect of causing the rating to DROP dramatically from 9 point something to 7 point something.
I absolutely support efforts to prevent "gaming the system," but this degradation seems unreasonable under the circumstances of TV broadcasts in a large market, in the hometown of the subject of the film.
I noticed that these recent TV broadcasts weren't listed on IMDb, so I added that in (presumably the distributor's job, actually). No difference, and it's been a few days.
The unweighted mean is 9.2 and of course the print for that is tiny.
Is there an automatic reassessment process that can be expected to occur? Is there anything I can do to help (as a person who is not in the film business, but is a fan of the singer)?
Maya
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11 hours ago
Hi lbligh-
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!
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