star ratings on unreleased films calls into question imdb integrity.

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My film Peter Gaya Kaam Se is yet to be release and yet i have a movie rating. Most people will realize that it is bogus but none the less how do i get this kind of innacurate data removed? It gives a poor first glance impression. To my knowledge only fifty or sixty family and friends have seen the film in a one off screening at Raindance. The data sample for the rating is below fifty and quite likely from folks who have not seen the movie.. surely too few to condemn my work to a one star rating. John Owen Director
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Please see https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/faq-for-imdb-ratings/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV  and in particular:

What are IMDb ratings? IMDb registered users can cast a vote (from 1 to 10) on every released title in the database. Individual votes are then aggregated and summarized as a single IMDb rating, visible on the title’s main page. By “released title” we mean that the movie (or TV show) must have been shown publicly at least once (including festival screening)
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I repeat, unless all the individuals who have seen this movie in its one public screening have voted on imdb (42 votes) which i very much doubt, this rating remains in my view highly misleading and the overwhelming probability is that these are votes from people who have not seen one frame of the film. Even if the votes cast are y the good folks from the screening this is a ridiculoosly low sample with which to condemn a film to a one star rating. Which is my point.

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