IMDB Rating System Totally Bogus

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Everyone knows the rating system on IMDB is totally rigged and encourages trolls. Our film CUCK has only released the trailer (we open theatrically Oct 4) and the trailer alone brought all the usual suspects out of the woodwork who disagreed with what the movie might be...not even what it is. No one has seen the film...yet a couple hundred angry folks are allowed to get on and bomb the rating to dissuade people from seeing the film.

I propose IMDB reward activity on a title. The more attention a title getting the higher the noise rating. If someone wants to write a review well that's fine, take your shot. But I think allowing totally lazy down rating to go on is a total joke.

When only the trailer is out this isn't a rating it's more of a pile on. Please get it figure out IMDB.
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Chance Dalmain

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Michelle, Official Rep

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Hi Chance -

As MikeTheWhistle pointed out earlier, it's possible that individuals who viewed the earlier festival screenings may have voted on the title. 

Please also know that 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.
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Everyone knows the rating system on IMDB is totally rigged and encourages trolls.
No, actually it isn't. IMDb is very smart on the way it calculates ratings and trolls really don't much stand a chance. You are starting from a bad premise to make your case look compelling. Also, your film has so few ratings, that it isn't really meaningful. You can complain that the 1 votes are trolls but don't seem to care that the 10 votes are most likely shills from your company. IMDb can detect this and those votes don't get counted in the rating either.