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The ratings on these films were likely vote-brigaded

Dear IMDb Staff:

The ratings on these films all show signs of being vote-brigaded for political, religious, or hate purposes. Can you please open an investigation and adjust the weighting of these ratings accordingly?

Elment az öszöd (2013)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3132658/ratings

(Weighted average vote of 1.1)

United Passions (2014)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2814362/ratings

(Weighted average vote of 2.1)

Laxmii (2020)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10350922/ratings

(Weighted average vote of 2.5)

The Cost of Deception (2021)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14723224/ratings

(Weighted average vote of 1.5)

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3 years ago

for History ??

Elment az öszöd (2013)

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3132658/ratings

User Ratings
1,234 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 1.1 / 10
Rating      Votes
10    7.6%      94
 1   88.3%  1,090
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United Passions (2014)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2814362/ratings

User Ratings
4,324 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 2.1 / 10
Rating      Votes
10   4.7%     203
 1  67.0%   2,896
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Laxmii (2020)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10350922/ratings

User Ratings
57,599 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 2.5 / 10
Rating       Votes
10  15.5%   8,956
 1  68.8%  39,605

https://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

Bottom Rated Movies: #55
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The Cost of Deception (2021)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14723224/ratings

User Ratings
39,074 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 1.5 / 10
Rating        Votes
10  12.9%   5,022

 1  83.9%  32,768

https://www.imdb.com/chart/bottom

Bottom Rated Movies #39.

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A pozsonyi csata (2020)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14036378/ratings

User Ratings
60 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 1.9 / 10
Rating      Votes
10     6.7%      4
  1  76.7%     46

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Kod Adi K.O.Z. (2015)
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4458206/ratings

User Ratings
27,599 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 1.7 / 10

     NOTE: 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.

Rating       Votes
10  15.0%   4,128
  1  81.9%  22,605

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3 years ago

Hi @keyword_expert -

Ratings reported.

Cheers!

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3 years ago

Not sure about second one, it has Metascore 1, I never saw such a low rating from critics.

Actually, couple of titles have Metascore 1.

https://www.metacritic.com/browse/movies/score/metascore/all/filtered?sort=desc&page=152

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3 years ago

@plur62 I received your comment via email but it isn't showing up here -- no doubt the system is temporarily blocking it because of the link to Metacritic. You do raise a good point about the very low rating for United Passions (2014) at Metacritic. Still, that doesn't mean there couldn't also have been botting activity on the IMDb rating.

In particular, I note the low review-to-ratings ratio (33 user reviews compared to 4,326 user ratings). That seems like a low ratio to me, which if I am correct may indicate botting or sock activity on the ratings.

IMDb can look for any suspicious patterns or other suspicious activity with the ratings. 

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@plur62 p.s. I found all the films in this list from "auditing" the "z-movie" keyword. After checking out Metacritic's compilation of critics' reviews for United Passions, I decided to add the "z-movie" keyword back to this title, since it does sound objectively bad. But I still would like IMDb staff to check the ratings on this film for anything suspicious, just in case. Thanks again for bringing the Metacritic rating to my attention. 

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3 years ago

Hi @keyword_expert & All -

I'm just following up on this older post to confirm that our staff in charge of the voting system is still investigating,  we can't provide an exact timeframe as to when the investigation will be completed and for this reason we are closing this thread.   Know that while 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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