number of rated titles incorrect on lists

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I have a chronological list with all the films I saw in 2013 and I rated them all. Now I saw some films more than once and when I add a film a second time to that list it won't count the rating on the right where it says "Rated x of y titles". Can you fix this?
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http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053604/

In this list, I have The Apartment repeated five times. The page indicate that:
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Rated 1 of 5 titles

I rated the film The Apartment only once. Therefore the number of films rated is correct.

Now it comes down to definitions. There are five individual items in the list. Should IMDb count the number of items in the list or the number of unique items? Counting the number of items in a list is easy, simply trace through the items on the list and increment a counter.

Counting the number of unique items on a list is more difficult. It is also the less obvious count to track.

Conversely, if IMDb were to implement your suggestion, some other user could easily complain that there is a bug because the total number of items in the list is not given.
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