For the first film and this film, all of a sudden I see positive user reviews voted up so much and negative reviews voted down! They weren't like this before!
You can knock on Ed Wood but it won't do you no good 'cause all of my heroes are dead in Hollywood
It's been like this for a month now, and has been getting very out of control and immature. By all means it's nowhere near as bad as it was now but it's still a mess. It's a serious violation of the guidelines and it looks like a deliberate attempt at undermining IMDb's credibility and to mislead people. I, and many others who have also reported it, am/are convinced that it is the work of one person or a small group spamming and rigging the reviews and useful votes with sock-puppets. It's affected a lot of people, it caused a literal uproar on the Nymphomaniac boards when it got really bad, with people being angry at such useless reviews(no reasoning, a lot of hyperbole and some don't even get the genre right) were getting so highly rated, and with good reason.
And there are good reasons to think so(notice the ratings and how they write as well as you say the voting up and down, as much as on average 5 useful/non useful votes a day since they've been here). IMDb do know of this and are doing their best to deal with it. Some of the accounts have been deleted(I know from being the one who gave the links to the accounts as evidence), but it seems like whoever's responsible is not giving up as the excessive up/down user voting is still happening(and for every film they've been commenting on, mostly panned) and most likely the opening of new accounts. The best thing you can do is either wait for it to die down or report to GetSatisfaction, but now that IMDb know what's going on you don't need to worry as much now. It's probably best for me also if I don't comment on this publicly anymore just in case they're aware of how riled up people are and resorting to knee-jerk reactions or get any ideas to.
"Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage"- Madeline Kahn(CLUE, 1985)
That explains a lot, thanks :)
You can knock on Ed Wood but it won't do you no good 'cause all of my heroes are dead in Hollywood
Jesus Christ, it's getting worse and worse.
You can knock on Ed Wood but it won't do you no good 'cause all of my heroes are dead in Hollywood
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Unfortunately now it has gotten really bad, even worse actually than the last time, and has been a real bother for many who have noticed the problem. And it's not just with the Baby Geniuses films but also A Fox's Tale, the Nymphomaniac films and the animated Titanic movies, and there's probably more too. The best thing to do now, if you haven't done so already and are still annoyed by it, is to report the situation to GetSatisfaction.com- and I strongly encourage anybody else bothered by this to do the same- which is part of IMDb essentially which you can get to from here via Contact Us link, a lot of IMDb users use it regularly and on the most part are helpful. The more people mention this, they would have to act. I have reported it twice when it first escalated and commented on others' threads when they reported it too and it did make a difference when some of the accounts eventually got terminated but not by much. But you will need to provide some evidence to back up the complaint by naming the accounts and giving links to them. That sounds like it'll be time-consuming as there are so many but once you've spotted them it's not so much. It shouldn't be too hard to spot them(as a matter of fact it's shockingly obvious), all of them are the recent positive reviews written in a short space of time and excessively up-voted.
But there are even more accounts other than the ones for this movie, and you can tell by the new reviews for the other Baby Geniuses movies and the new one for Legend of the Titanic. They also have fake pictures of mostly models for their avatars, have fairly similar user names, a similar writing style, same ratings for the same film(ie. giving the Baby Geniuses movies a 10 and the Nymphomaniac ones a 1) and their reviews are little more than a plot summary, hyperbole or making claims that show they haven't even seen the movie(like what some of them say about Nymphomaniac). Sorry about bumping the thread after so long but it is getting really annoying for me and a lot of my IMDb friends who put a thought into their reviews(which for a while were their most useful) and then suddenly their reviews are down-voted in such a short space of time so that they are now their least useful and the useful reviews are actually truly useless that nobody sane would find helpful. And it has got to be taken seriously by IMDb, considering that this is called rigging/spamming which is a severe violation of the IMDb guidelines. And this time not just a few accounts and reviews should be deleted but all of them and the perpetrator(s) ought to be banned from posting ever again. Sounds drastic but I still stand by what I say and have said in my previous post in how serious this problem is and that it should be treated as such.
"Life after death is as improbable as sex after marriage"- Madeline Kahn(CLUE, 1985)
I thought there was something weird going on here when I looked at my vote tallies and what had before yielded 3/3 positives was now something like 3/30! I didn't think such an obscure movie with many reviews could get so many negatives, so it's reassuring that somebody else noticed the same thing. What would be the motive of someone launching such a campaign for a movie that isn't even considered a cult film?
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