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Hi the Meghan Markle Archetype podcast has been attacked by a coordinated campaign to downrate the podcast. It’s roughly 300 of the 1 star ratings that are part of the campaign. Just look up the time and date and you will see it’s coordinated and spammy.

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The attack may not necessarily be technically coordinated. I mean, some people will go on the "attack" upon simply becoming aware of the existence of the record of the podcast on IMDb, without even giving it a chance. She is a controversial figure after all, and fewer and fewer people continue to defend her.

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@jeorj_euler​ it’s not organic though. There was a campaign on Reddit, Twitter and YouTube launched by a dedicated hate group that cyber stalk her. It’s not really about defending or not. The ratings is not real. These are ppl with accounts dedicated to spreading conspiracies about her, I’m talking about hundreds of accounts who create dozens of posts everyday spreading the most fantastical conspiracies. Things like, her kids don’t exist, they’re dolls, she was never an actress she was a prostitute etc… they are relentless, and they attack anything related to her online. That’s why Amazon had to restrict their ratings. 

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@jeorj_euler​ btw, she is not controversial, she hasn’t killed anyone or anything remotely eye brow raising. She exists and hate group formed encouraged by tabloids. The controversy is in the relentless hategroup that targets one individual with a laser focus. That’s the controversy. Defending herself from that controversy is a human right. 

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She has falsely accused the House of Windsor of being racially discriminatory. She has done everything in her power to garner sympathy, as though she is the victim, but she is no such thing, apart from the extent to which the tabloid journalists have been perpetrators (and never the kind to treat her to an awful round of sticks and stones). She gave the late queen of the United Kingdom a lot of grief and at no time ever expressed remorse about it. She willfully had no respect for the many royal protocols. Her silly husband felt that she was at risk of meeting the same fate as his long-deceased beloved mother, so they parted from the House of Windsor, relinquishing their royal titles and running away to the United States, without even harboring United States values. Is their only reason for being so paranoid and so delusional is that some wealthy cabal has been gaslighting them? I don't know, but public portion of the facts go against their heart-wrenching narrative.

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Post a link to the Titles and Ratings ??

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@ACT_1​ I'll post them links up, not that the ratings look any different than I'd expect.

Looks like another podcast that has botted duplicate episodes (including a trailer) as well.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21920936/

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21920936/ratings/

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Look at later...

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21920936/ratings/

866 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 3.3 / 10
Rating    Votes
10  55.0%  476
  1  40.2%  348
Arithmetic mean = 6.2   Median = 10

Sun Apr 2 2023
12 hours later...

1,159 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 3.6 / 10
Rating    Votes
10  54.7%  634
  1  41.0%  475
Arithmetic mean = 6.1   Median = 10

  

Sun Apr 2 2023
24 hours later...
2,231 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 3.5 / 10
Rating      Votes
10  58.5% 1,305
  1  38.2%   853
Arithmetic mean = 6.4   Median = 10

  

Mon Apr 3 2023

3,449 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 3.4 / 10
Rating      Votes
10  50.9% 1,755
  1  45.5% 1,571
Arithmetic mean = 5.7   Median = 10

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@VonPunk​ hi Von, what do you see? Sorry, I’m not as familiar as you are with IMDP. I just know that trolls on Reddit and twitter and a lot of YouTubers weighed a campaign.

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@VonPunk​ how can the podcast virtually only have 10 star rating or 1 star rating. That’s on brand with how the hate group that follows her around the internet have done things in the past. Amazon had to restrict their reviews to “buyers only “ because of that. 

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@ACT_1​ rating of 10 or 1 star and virtually nothing in between. 

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@ACT_1​ sorry about that. But it looks like you responded with the link below anyway.

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The rating is polarized. That's typical of political matters. Whose fault is that? The IMDb staff will investigate, and if any of the accounts involved in casting votes (be them one or ten, on a scale of one to ten) has actually violated IMDb policy, then the offending account will be purged.

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@DSBMN​ The usual 1's and 10's for anything polarizing for whatever reason, it's why IMDb has measures in place for this, it hasn't been review bombed (if this is the case) as hard as some things as the 1's would be way higher but I'm sure a ticket will be filed to look into it when a staff member responds to the thread here, allow a couple of days for a response.

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Hi All -

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