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Saturday, July 29th, 2023 1:21 AM

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Where can I report unfairly marked ratings? Also why doesn't IMDb give a proper adjustment on the ratings when it comes to Kdramas?

IMDb gave adjustments when both Cleopatra documentary from Netflix and Little Mermaid remake were bombarded by 1 ratings. However, the same adjustment hasn't been applied to this kdrama, King the Land.


https://www.imdb.com/title/tt26693803/ratings/?ref_=tt_ov_rt

If you look at the ratings of the show from the link above, 96K people from saudi arabia rated 1 out of total 125K. This is obviously targeted rating. If you check the reviews, you can find 2 main reasons why they gave 1 ratings. There are 2 episodes featuring an arab prince who wants to have a business in south korea. The arab prince is played by an indian actor who was a popular supporting actor in Squid Game. People are giving 1 ratings because an indian actor who has a darker skin tone plays an arab prince. They are also giving 1 ratings because the arab prince was being fallen in love with a korean lady. These are not the right reasons for contributing 1 or any ratings, and again those segments are only featured in 2 episodes out of 16. I was thinking that maybe it's going to be fixed like Cleopatra and Little Mermaid later? But it doesn't look like it's going to happen any time soon. I wanted to report about it, but there's no any button I can click to process. I don't watch a lot of kdramas, but I experienced this kind of wrong ratings on some other kdramas. IMDb should not protect the ratings of american movies and shows only. Also they should they have a report function to report "usual rating behaviors".

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1 year ago

Hi @coleslow -

Hi!

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

Our voting system already detects and defeats attempts to stuff the ballot and skew the rating, as demonstrated by the difference between the weighted average and the arithmetic mean on the vast majority of titles in the database. For additional information about IMDb ratings and weighted averages, please refer to our FAQ.

Cheers!

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@Bethanny​  Thanks for your reply, but the status of the ratings of the show is still the same even though it's been five days ever since you left a reply. You guys made a quick action to the ratings of Cleopatra and Little mermaid. It was almost instant, but not for kdramas. It's just not fair.

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@coleslow​ Hi!

Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
Our staff in charge of the voting system will look at this at the earliest opportunity.
Though 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.

Cheers!

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1 year ago

This show is showing over 100,000 ratings and it hasn't finished airing.  That number alone is suspicious.  Maybe people don't prefer kdramas, but the amount of 'ratings' seems peculiar.  I think it was hacked.  Could you please investigate it?  It really doesn't deserve this treatment and I think IMDB should do better oversight of these things.  I know there was a complaint about the reviews being generated by bots, but this is ridiculous!

Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation originally titled fake ratings for King The Land