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Monday, January 31st, 2022 4:27 PM

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Vote Manipulation: The Heroes

Apparently the following title is being spammed with an unusual amount of 10/10s:

The Heroes

Overview of the ratings:

Ratings Chart

Can someone look into this?

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3 years ago

Hello dear IMDB, I am one of the followers of your unique site, I want to address an issue that is at your service, in fact, the Iranian series Pahlavanan is currently increasing its votes over a large number of people. I saw the series, it is a good series, but not to the extent that it goes beyond series such as the series Breaking Bad, The Most Vicious World and Let Others, Please pay attention to this issue and know that these votes are due to the ignorance and irrationality of the Iranian people, desperately I use. Take action on this issue

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled About the votes of the Iranian serial Pahlavanan

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3 years ago

Exactly! if you take a look at the ratings, there are almost 40k people voting 10/10. so unusual for a random series.

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3 years ago

Hi iO_0i_op-

 

Thanks for reporting this. I have filed a ticket to the concerned team for further investigations.

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3 years ago

I found a title on imdb where the reviews seem pretty suspicious. I'm talking about the Iranian show "The Heroes" (https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7657124/). It seems to have gotten many new ratings and reviews in only the last few days (although the show started in 2008), all of which give 10/10. Scrolling through the reviews, all of them are from 30/31 January 2022 (and all of them have a few hundred likes). I'm not saying it is impossible that the show is so well-rated, but it does seem a bit weird to me.

The show is 9.9/10 and #33 in Top TV shows now.

I could not find much on the internet about the show. Does anyone have any idea what is going on?

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled Positive review bombing?

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There is definitely major vote manipulation going on with those reviews, even if some of the reviews were legitimate in the first place. Somebody is boosting the positive reviews with thousands of votes marking them as "helpful."

You can see that with this review, which was posted just yesterday, yet it already has 2,200+ "helpful" votes. There is zero chance those votes are legitimate.

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There is also blatant manipulation of the ratings, as shown in this image.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt7657124/ratings

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I saw the same things back in September with a movie. I reported it here in this forum, but IMDb staff have yet to take any action, which is really disappointing -- the lack of action is making users lose confidence in the IMDb ratings and reviews.

https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/data-issues-policy-discussions/blatant-vote-manipulation-on-this-title-you-go-to-my-head-2017/613728e57fa42f0bc9ad38eb