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Mass voting has been detected on several occasions by users of the IMDb Poll, some very recently.
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000088/thread/230221514
Among other things, we found that some or all the voting may have originated at a Chloe Grace Moretz fansite. Here's part of a discussion from their forum in December:
And a few days ago, they identified other polls they wanted to influence:
http://www.chlomo.org/chan/chloe/res/211581.html
There was a previous report of this problem, but there hasn't been a comment by staff here nor at the IMDb Poll board, so I'm not sure if you have looked into whether there's anything you can do.
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/voting_problem_spam_bot_voting
http://www.imdb.com/board/bd0000088/thread/230221514
Among other things, we found that some or all the voting may have originated at a Chloe Grace Moretz fansite. Here's part of a discussion from their forum in December:
And a few days ago, they identified other polls they wanted to influence:
http://www.chlomo.org/chan/chloe/res/211581.html
There was a previous report of this problem, but there hasn't been a comment by staff here nor at the IMDb Poll board, so I'm not sure if you have looked into whether there's anything you can do.
https://getsatisfaction.com/imdb/topics/voting_problem_spam_bot_voting
Peter, Champion
Posted 6 years ago
Dan Dassow, Champion
Peter,
Thank you for posting this.
The robot accounts are fairly easy to identify. The voting patterns are identical, the votes happen within a minute, the account names follow a pattern, the accounts were created on the same day and there is no other activity for that account.
Here are two recent example:
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur48712949/ crumpledmanned
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur48712940/ wharfpepper
Thank you for posting this.
The robot accounts are fairly easy to identify. The voting patterns are identical, the votes happen within a minute, the account names follow a pattern, the accounts were created on the same day and there is no other activity for that account.
Here are two recent example:
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur48712949/ crumpledmanned
http://www.imdb.com/user/ur48712940/ wharfpepper
