Vindictive 1-Star Down Voting

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I recently noticed my feature film, Monty Comes Back, which saw a festival run and had limited screenings, yet is still NOT RELEASED to the public, has received 22 1-star votes out of nowhere. I tried to combat it with colleagues up-voting, and noticed those 18 (now 22) 1-star votes had no demographic information, as opposed to every other vote originally there, or prompted after this attack. Not to mention, of course, currently I am the only person in control of who sees the film and no one has in months, let alone since it's last screening, especially 22 people with apparently brand new IMDb accounts. So we went from an 8.6 festival exclusive score, that hadn't change in literally a year and a half, to a 5.4 overnight, and the war continues. I noticed a former thread that brought up this topic from 3 years ago and assumed to start my own thread as times have changed, and this is obviously specific. It was noted there's an automated system to notice these votes, though this attack still continues. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4700574/
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FamCo

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  • frustrated.

Posted 2 years ago

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Hi FamCo, 

Thank you for bringing this to our attention. 

Please rest assured that our voting system has several safeguards in place and that this type of behavior is periodically detected and automatically defeated. 

We appreciate your assistance and will take appropriate steps to investigate this issue. Please know that we will not be able to share the results of our investigation.

For further details, please see our Help page: 

https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/faq-for-imdb-ratings/G67Y87TFYYP6TWAV# 

Thanks again for your understanding. Please let us know if we can offer further help.

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