Wrong IMDB rating of movie "The Kashmir Files"

Hi Asdfzombie-

We appreciate you taking the time to report this, a ticket has now been filed to the team in charge for further investigation on this matter.

Thanks!

@Asdfzombie​ these aren't fake. Your the troll that posted that

@vivek43211234​ Your username explains your agenda. Your government is planning a genocide of innocent people by rewriting history through cheap propaganda films like these and you psychos are well aware of it. History will remember this.

You just admitted you are from Pakistan - clearly you are not biased. There are millions of documents and video evidence this movie is based on - every scene has been methodically documented. Also, nearly 500k people in the world are named Vivek:

https://forebears.io/forenames/vivek

So, instead of sitting here criticizing a movie that you CANNOT even watch in Pakistan, I believe you should go criticize your own Pakistani movies or simply look for a job instead of being part of China and Pakistan's cyber troll army 

@vivek43211234​ Of course I'm unbiased. Your response explains your agenda. Long live Kashmir, you'll never succeed in your attempts of the genocide of the innocents there. Give all the fake ratings you want for this third class movie, even you know it's based on lies.

@Bethanny​ Thanks for looking into this. The current fascist government of India is currently planning a genocide by rewriting history which they try to do through films like these. As you can see in the comments, how they hire trolls to harass anyone speaking up is astonishing. Taking action against such activities could help avoid even wars. Thank you very much once again for standing for the truth.

@Bethanny Maybe you should add these comments to your "ticket". Rhode Island just issued a proclamation recognizing this genocide -

https://newsable.asianetnews.com/gallery/entertainment/the-kashmir-files-rhodes-island-officially-recognizes-kashmir-genocide-says-vivek-agnihotri-drb-r8qhpu#image1

So, before accepting these trolls at face value. Pakistan propaganda is a world joke. You live in your own strange world: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0AvuUFQdX0

@Asdfzombie​ I'm a Lawyer in the United States. So, please control yourself before saying I'm a hired troll. 

@vivek43211234​ Nobody's from Pakistan here and your disgusting xenophobic comments don't matter. Showing fake articles from shady sources isn't helping your case, bud. It only highlights your blood-thirsty agenda even more. I'm glad they can see this.

@vivek43211234​ Very well said, I appreciate it.

@d7837​ Listen, calm down. Being disrespectful doesn't help. I'm sure they are working on it and if they don't fix it, you can go protest outside of their office. People are less likely to listen to an honest, rational argument if you yell at them. 

@Asdfzombie​ 

Reminder for me: Remember to visit here next year - April 2023

@Bethanny​ can a movie technically ever score 10 out of 10 in IMDb? If not, why? If yes, how(mention the scenario, if there is any)? 

@Dinamani​ Open threats, as usual. You never fail to hide your agendas. I'm glad the world can see this. 

@Asdfzombie​ 

"Remember to visit here next year - April 2023", is a threat! agenda! world can see this! 

You are sure this was meant for me? Did you notice that I have not responded to your outbursts? Now if you are a wise guy, can you tell me why I wanted to set a reminder for April 2023?

Ta Ta Bye Bye

See you next year :D

@Dinamani​ A clear pattern of genocide enabling is visible from all your responses, the Indian government may enable it but it's obvious to those who take human rights seriously. Good luck trying to push your disgusting bigotry elsewhere. 

@Asdfzombie​ 

standing for the truth, until it happens to your own I believe you will never understand. India also known as Bharat was one whole country which was broken by political leaders for their own vetted interest. I suggest you learn the history before you spew such comments. There was no division of India until the greed of men thought to divide n conquer. Truth will always come out which is why there is a lot of evidence against the perpetrators. You believe in God, even that same god will be ashamed of the actions of the perpetrators of hurting innocent and killing people with such brutality and barbaric ways. 

@Sweetie​ 

Never reply to hate messages. They cannot be corrected. And you should not attempt also. They get max satisfaction when they see a reply opposing what they have said. They suffer most when there is no reply. Because then they feel they have been treated as unimportant. Remember next time. Now that person will put another good language reply.

@Sweetie​ Your levels of dishonesty are laughable. Only in a land corrupted by BJP like India will you find people who pretend to believe such lies propogated solely for the purpose to enabling genocide. Your fake accounts and fake narratives prove nothing. This movie is an absolute disgrace to real history that wasn't portrayed in it. Case closed.

@Dinamani​ Great that you admit being intellectually inferior, there's a start.

@Asdfzombie​ I don't mind you to have that satisfaction. The content shows the character.

By the way I notice that you have not replied yet to why I wanted to set a reminder for April 2023? Unless you felt I am too low, to be bothered with a reply.

The Kashmir Files (2022) - User ratings - IMDb

"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."

I can very well understand the need for such correction, as in the case of bogus/biased voting.

The Kashmir Files:

The nearest movie I can think of is the "Schinder's list".

The referred movie is based on real events which happened in the genocide of Kashmir Pundits in 1990, under the eyes of Government. No social media on those days. And no one can explain as to how such a horrific event went unnoticed in other parts of India. Gradually facts came to be known but without details. This movie has been a genuine attempt with years of research on the issue. It was released on 11 Mar 2022, with no advertisement, no promotion and without "blessings" of Bollywood. So the Indians have taken up the cause, through social media and word of mouth. The response has been unbelievable with full houses. The screens have increased. Some theaters show this movie on a 24 hour schedule. Will be showing somewhere near you also. The movie has deeply affected the viewers for two reasons, the real events, secndly, the unawareness of happening of such an event in a country like India, So IMDB ratings have been nearly 10 from each of them.

Whosoever sees this movie will rate this either 10 or 0 (binary) - you can see the ratings. Now Normal will be 10, But those who did not want these facts to be known will rate it 0 (about 5% as it stands now).
Pl assume that I may be  biased about this movie. Now my query.

The algorithm will see within a short span 95% voting 10, no spread, 5% 0 - The alternate weightage mechanism kicks in, as it should be. But I have an issue, once in a blue moon, such movies do happen. If over the next few days, the trend continues in this fashion and from the current poll of 100 thou to say 10 million, and ratings continue 95% 10, Then what happens?
Will the system takes it as a genuine trend and revert back to nearly 10, or continue as it is?

Hope someone will read this and answer me.
The IMDB ratings will not affect the viewership, Thank God. But I have an issue. This movie could be Oscar material, and I do not want IMDB ratings to contradict. Of course, one is through a panel and the other is viewership. But still...

I recently watched and rated The Kashmir files, but I noticed even though the user ratings are above 9 IMDb is showing it to be 8.3 with a note which says IMDb noted some unusual voting activity due to which they had to choose an alternate weightage criteria.

I wanted to understand why/what and how does it works, or is it just IMDb trying to monopolies the movie ratings by not considering user ratings? 

Indians are gone crazy to watch this masterpiece. I think IMDB never saw this much 10/10 ratings before. Thats why IMDB thought its bot.

IMDB must understand that most of the ratings are given by people of the country of world's second largest population.

13 million = 0.01% of India's population. So, less than 0.001% of population voted till now. It will be higher in future.

IMDB must take some action to prevent problem in rating calculation.

The Indian Movie titled, "The Kashmir Files" is one of the best movies ever to have been made in India. We have waited for years for the release of this movie and almost every Indian has cried after watching this movie. It has got to do with the history of our country. Because every Indian loved it do much, everyone jad rated it a 10/10 on your IMDB rating app. Your team has suddenly lowered the rating of the movie giving a vague reason. This is not fair. This movie is a revolution in Indian Cinema nad you all have just lowered its rating because you all believe the voting is not fair. This is not done by your side. Do you all have any proof of fraudulent voting. Is this being done because you all don't want an Indian movie to land up on the IMDB top 10. Please reconsider this decision of yours to lpwer the rating of the movie. Please don't be biased against Indian Cinema. Watch this movie by yourseld and you will realise why it jas been rated so high. This movie is going to have the highest box office collection in India. Sorry if I was rude but please reconsider this decision of using an alternative method to lower the ratings.

The weighted mechanism applied to " the kashmir file" is not understable. With over 138k reting it's not on the popular list while junk movies with 500 rating are in the list, that shows how much money is channeled to your system, it's not reliable at all. You discriminate against eastern movies and biased toward western movies is unbearable and pathetic.

Is the IMDB serving a propaganda by downgrading the ratings of Kashmir Files.

How you can show the avg weightage rating as 8.3 !? Most of the audiences have votes 10/10 we can clearly see that.. So it will get automatically more than 9/10...is that any computer error or you are making the rating less by knowingly!? 

imdb you lost your credibility by reducing the ratings of the kashmir files movie

@Dinamani​ 

Fully supporting your follow up on it.

All ratings are genuine. 

Please let me know if they are listening , else expose them. We will go to court and Government to make sure that they are banned in the act which is against the country by blocking the true ratings and not keeping this movie in popular list. 

Because IMDB can not see highest rating of a movie which is made in India.

They are biased with us.

@Bethanny​ This is wrong - IMDb would not attempt to whitewash The Schindler's List - doing this to The Kashmir Files is racist, anti-hindu, bigoted, xenophobic, and discriminatory against India and its people whose suffering is being attempted to be washed away by your racist attempt to weigh the scale. Human suffering should not be whitewashed. 

@Bethanny​ Thanks for a response.

I understand why there has to be an alternate method when you see an unusually large voting on 10. I wish you to consider 2 movies Gandhi and Schindler's list. There will be a reasonably large distributed voting on say 5-10 and also on 1. Now let us talk about The Kashmir Files. It is a genocide related movie, which involved displacement of 500 thousand Hindus, and the movie has involved a research of 4 years, by an individual, famous for similar 2 earlier movies, unbacked by The big houses in movie (Bolly wood), no sponsors. But the movie touched the Indians in millions, in just last 4 days despite targeting by bigwigs to suppress, it touched a nerve, an the result is what happened. The screens are increasing in no.s every day, and whosoever has seen is bringing in many more to watch. Some theatres are showing round the clock. The promo is only through social media and word of mouth.
Also since people are considering it as Oscar material (my bias of course), they are flocking to IMDB and rating it here. The rating by topic will be either 10 (most of them) or 1 (who did not wish this movie to click - like big houses). No spread in between.
The end result is that an alarming no. 250000 have voted it 10 and around 10000 have voted 1.
Now let us analyse.
The algorithm looking at abnormal traffic kicked in. 99% of the 10 raters are first time, so it treated them as motivated mass voters and gave an abnormally low weightage, and there are traditional voters in 1 rating, some of them do not want this movie to click, so instances like, the 3 voters in top 1000 voters etc. have influenced the rating to go down to 8.3 from nearly 10.
Now I have a question.
This is an unusual but probable scenario. Once in a blue moon a movie will touch the heart of a viewer, and feeling that justice should be done, rates the movie 10. But the algo is an algo, and it downgrades that rating.
But remember these are genuine raters and they have used IMDB for first time, and you are disappointing them. So they have started (ban) #IMDB move. Your algo is creating a mistrust in your rating system. So think about what you are planning to do. I feel this voting may continue and may exceed a million, which may prove my point. Then you may have to do something.
But the other scenario is bad. They have lost faith in your system. So they will stop voting. As a business you know the implications.
I know I may be biased in the whole argument. But as an Indian, I feel, I should try to correct, if I feel some thing is wrong, in my opinion. For sure it is not Hollywood. But it is not Bollywood either. It is an individual's mammoth effort, which will be insulted. Since we form one sixth of global population, the success of the movie is foregone conclusion. But we would like global appreciation. The movie is screened world wide, may be near your area also. 
If you have read it till here, thanks for your patience. I know you cannot change a rule for just one movie. But I can always put forth my opinion.
P.S:  There are around 7500 reviews, definitely not by mass or bots. Definitely they should weigh in for my argument.

Check #IMDB and #TheKashmirFiles in twitter and tickets for The Kashmir Files in bookmyshow site.

@Bethanny​ 

Dear IMDb Team,

Kindly Just restore the method by which your calculations are done with other movies, why its shows different calculation only for this movie?

We have all watched this movie and love it, so this is a issue?

Check the theatre all are house full, every one who has watched has given 10 star.

It's an humble request to restore the rating, to get same love we have for IMDb.

@Bethanny​ The Kashmiri Files Rating is stuck at 8.3 from 150000 10 raters to 360000 raters.  Pl note I am not going into lengthy comment. As I have explained in my earlier 3 comments, Once in a blue moon, such a movie happens. And if you cannot digest that, May God bless IMDB. We will move forward. I will again visit when raters exceed 0.5 million and your weighted average (sic) if stuck at 8.3

As promised on 20/03/22: 508,479 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 8.3 / 10

I doubt it is weighted average, it is a freeze. God bless you.

@Dinamani​

March 16 2022 21:38: 451,726 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 8.3 / 10

March 17 2022 18:34: 481,320 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 8.3 / 10

March 20 2022 11:34: 508,479 IMDb users have given a weighted average vote of 8.3 / 10

Apr 02, 2022: 538,701 IMDb users have given a weighted average (sic) vote of 8.3 / 10

@Bethanny​ Then tell me how did it score 10 stars till 65k reviews.