"New" and "Old" Imdb users

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Can I suspect of new users creating accounts in the premiere days of a film, to give 1 star,  trying to stuff the ballot and skew the rating? Can't they be considered fake, bot accounts?

In other cases, I see users with more than 5 years of account, but they only have 2 votes or extreme votes (only 1 or 10 ratings). Is it normal? Is it allowed by the website policy and rules?

If I see they are not respecting the community, how can I contact IMDB staff to report accounts?
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Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/faq-for-imdb-ratings/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV
3 years ago
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I still maintain my doubts. So anyone can create many accounts with different emails? Can they register to give only one specific rating, in a curious way, is a very negative one? 

I know IMDB staff has the weighted average, but I know a case where a film was very consensual to critics and to the majority of people, but the 1 ratings keep growing and most of the user reviews (the ones ordered by helpfulness) are negative. Isn't it weird at all?
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This reply was created from a merged topic originally titled Reliability of IMDB weighted average.

Don't you see a problem with a film of 93% (Rottentomatoes) and 86% (Metascore) having almost 5.6% of 1 star ratings (and they keep growing)? Its already higher than 2, 3, 4 and 5 star ratings and almost surpassing the 6 star ratings. The "weighted average" is going down, so it means the minority of lower ratings is winning the majority of higher ratings. How can it be? This way IMDB will lose reliability and possibly users.
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Col Needham, can I give you some accounts doing this, so you will understand what I'm saying?

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