The people who rate movies on IMDB

Hi @VaDirector,

We have several safeguards in place to automatically detect and defeat vote ballot stuffing: even though we count and display all unaltered votes in the rating breakdown, several countermeasures are applied against all attempts to skew the rating, and the weighted rating you see displayed on the site already takes all of the above into consideration.

Please also see our Ratings FAQ for more information, such as:

Some users voted 1/10 for a well-reviewed movie, so these votes must be fake. Can you remove them?

Everyone watching a movie or show brings their own personal history and tastes, which factor into how a user votes on a title. Just because many critics or other IMDb users enjoyed a particular title, does not mean everyone felt the same way. Vice versa, supposedly “bad” titles can receive good ratings, as critical and popular opinion often diverge.

Our weighted average attempts to reduce this effect. The concept of the wisdom of the crowd (i.e. the collective opinion of a large group of individuals rather than of a single expert) comes into play here, which is why we believe all IMDb users should be able to vote as they feel on the 1 - 10 scale.

Cheers!