Troll attack raising the score of Highlander II

A famous Brazilian podcaster is on Twitter encouraging his listeners to increase the current score of the movie 'Highlander II' on IMDb. Just warning the admins.

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lucus1

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13.8K Points

10 years ago

The Twitter campaign targeting the IMDb rating
apparently began on January 2. Up to the
time of this reply I could find nearly 50
subsequent related tweets.

Some history:

The number of 10/10 votes displayed on the
movie's ratings page on June 30 2014 was 932.
(Source: Snapshot from Archive.org)

The number of 10/10 votes displayed on the
movie's ratings page on Dec. 28 2014 was 971.
(Source: Snapshot from Google cache, 28 Dec. 07:56:35 GMT)

The number of 10/10 votes displayed on the
movie's ratings page at the time of this reply was 1277.

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lucus1

111 Messages

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13.8K Points

The number of 10/10 votes displayed on the
movie's ratings page at the time of this reply is 1920.
The Weighted Average has risen from 3.9 to 4.0,
and the arithmetic mean is 4.1.

10 years ago

dan_dassow

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19.5K Messages

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477.9K Points

Groan. The famous Brazilian podcaster mentioned by Vinicius Cordeiro along with those retweeting his tweets could be risking having their account terminated.

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One could consider that advocating that others should fraudulently rate a film on IMDb could be considered to be solicitation to commit fraud. However, this is probably a stretch and based on lack of legal training.

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10 years ago