IMDB user ratings system completely BOGUS - DeCoteau crap gets 6.9 out of 10.

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I noticed the b movie '1313: Haunted Frat' was given a weighted rating of 6.9 out of 10 using your mysterious, bizarre weighted system of taking users' votes and perverting them into some new number. Arithmetic mean for this film is 5.5, as your site states. Yet most people familiar with David DeCoteau's pieces of crap he constantly churns out would likely give this one 1 or 2 at most out of 10.

I know for a fact there are award-winning films in your database that deserve higher user ratings based on actual votes, but are continually given suppressed weighted votes by your system that make them look unpopular or unliked when the opposite is true. But your weighted system giving this DeCoteau crap a 6.9 rating when it really deserves 5.5 at most simply exposes Imdb's bullshit system.

Ignore imdb user ratings on this site. Imdb employs a bullshit system that distorts viewers' opinions in favour of some other mysterious position that makes some bad films look better than they deserve, while other great films are left with low ratings.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1698658/
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The problem is that there are only 20 voters, so it is very easy to get friends and family to vote for it and boost its score.

The only thing to do is encourage more people to rate movies.
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Why would it skew it up for only 20 voters? At what point does the skewing and manipulation by imdb stop changing the percentage? 50 voters? 100 voters? Who knows?
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That wasn't about the IMDB algorithm but about the underlying votes.

I don't know why the adjusted score is higher than the arithmetic mean, especially as it tends to correct the other way when there seems to be vote stuffing, but they don't discuss the algorithm so it is always going to be a "black box".
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More evidence that the weighted average system was invented as a well-meaning best guess and has subsequently never once been looked at to determine whether, in fact, it's a P.O.S.

No one at IMDB cares ... maybe these complains need to be taken to Amazon.

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