Hi.
From some time already I'm wondering who decide about initial rating for new movies. Just came across this title, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2, had 0 votes and a crazy rating 9.4/10. So I checked details, IMDB got no info about director so far, he hasn't made anything memorable by now either and at least they've got already pictures of most cast of that movie, not like in some cases where actors are so new that next to their names are only blank icons.. So how come it start with so high score?? Now, if it's not worthy of that rating, people would have to vote with lower score that they would give it, just to bring it down to value it deserves.
Thank you
From some time already I'm wondering who decide about initial rating for new movies. Just came across this title, Z-O-M-B-I-E-S 2, had 0 votes and a crazy rating 9.4/10. So I checked details, IMDB got no info about director so far, he hasn't made anything memorable by now either and at least they've got already pictures of most cast of that movie, not like in some cases where actors are so new that next to their names are only blank icons.. So how come it start with so high score?? Now, if it's not worthy of that rating, people would have to vote with lower score that they would give it, just to bring it down to value it deserves.
Thank you
Posted 5 months ago
bderoes, Champion
Now, if it's not worthy of that rating, people would have to vote with lower score that they would give it, just to bring it down to value it deserves.Bert.
No one is the ratings police except IMDb.
IMDb can detect the pattern of what you just suggested and wipe any attempts at vote manipulation.
So go ahead waste your attempt to manipulate the vote. It will be compensated for by way of a secret algorithm that is employed by the database.
Vote what it deserves. Attempts to vote a title with a one when a score is that high will trigger the ignoring of your vote.
You misunderstood me completely. I'm not suggesting that votes are manipulated or I'm doing it. Never voted so far, don't have even account there. As I mentioned above I'm just using IMDB as only website when it comes to movies. My point was only to find out who decides about initial rating, when it's posted and has 0 views so far, as it may be deceptive. For example, title I used had 9.4 with 0 views. Lets say 1st person who seen it and who like this movie genre will think it's bad and give it 3.2. Average from it will be 6.3, which is still high and may not represent how good or bad this movie really is. The more votes the more accurate rating will be of course, but at early stage rating may be deceitful.
I'm surprised with what you've wrote at the end. Never thought about it. I guess in most cases if someone voting on movie with quite opposite number, that it actually has that could indicate manipulation. But there may be cases when someone's taste will be so different that his/her vote will be much different than others, but truly representing their opinion. I bet you can name at least few titles which reached Oscar nominations at least that were really controversial in reviews
I'm surprised with what you've wrote at the end. Never thought about it. I guess in most cases if someone voting on movie with quite opposite number, that it actually has that could indicate manipulation. But there may be cases when someone's taste will be so different that his/her vote will be much different than others, but truly representing their opinion. I bet you can name at least few titles which reached Oscar nominations at least that were really controversial in reviews
My point was only to find out who decides about initial rating, when it's posted and has 0 views so far, as it may be deceptive.It has 103 "views"
It has 0 "REVIEWS"
Nothing misleading.
There is NO SUCH thing as an initial rating.
Ratings are not tabulated whatsoever until there are 5 votes cast.
Bert