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Sunday, April 7th, 2024 5:46 AM

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The show "Waiting for the Sun" episodes have strange ratings

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All of them have 2.6k+ ratings with certain episodes having 9.7/10, I'm guessing these are botted, which I'm guessing because of these reasons.

  • Barely any info exists about most episodes
  • The show itself only has 5.9k reviews
  • The two episodes I looked at have extremely similar review graphs (1/2(I won't provide images as not too clog the post, the country specifics also show basically the same type of review graphs))

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8 months ago

Hi @Beeper -

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. 

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