New ask Hacker News story: Tell HN: Marketing companies are gaming IMDB reviews

Tell HN: Marketing companies are gaming IMDB reviews
9 by ghoomketu | 2 comments on Hacker News.
Recently a lot of negative reviews are being removed from IMDb. Here is how the fake review guys are doing it. IMDB says they are removed as they contain spoilers - but this is the latest thing film/series marketing companies that shill reviews are doing a as strategy -- got through and falsely report negative reviews as containing spoiler and once they use ten+ fake accounts to label a reviews as containing spoiler IMD algorithm just automatically removes it.

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