Talk:Nice Peter vs EpicLLOYD 2/@comment-28821404-20170722175021/@comment-24328089-20170722195725

Yeah, there's clearly a lot of ballot stuffing on Rotten Tomatoes, but as much as IMDb, which is notorious for it. For this movie in particular, which had a fringe political campaign against it since it was announced in 2014. On IMDb, especially back when they had forums, you could find groups of people gaming the ranking systems all the time. Especially movies that minority issues, slavery, etc. But sometimes just groups with weird fandom wars (Marvel vs DC, for example). You can still see thousands, sometimes even millions of votes on IMDb on movies that haven't even came out yet.

For Rotten Tomatoes, I compared the number of votes on the Ghostbusters to 10 movies with the closest box office gross in 2016 (5 ranked lower and five ranked higher) and found that it had over *twice* as many votes as any of the other movies. Including movies you would expect to have a ton of votes, like Hidden Figures, TMNT 2, and Assassin's Creed.

Ghostbusters is the 37th biggest movie of 2016. You have to go all the way up to #15 to find a movie with more votes than it. In fact, only 6 movies in the whole year have more audience votes than Ghostbusters (Civil War, Finding Dory, BvS, Deadpool, Suicide Squad & Apocalypse)

So why does Ghostbusters have so many damn votes compared to similar movies? Seems pretty obvious to me that many of those votes are fake. Maybe a whole 50% of them are fake.

But I don't think it can be that every single one of them are fake down votes. If that was the case, it wouldn't still be mostly upvotes. I think there's probably a lot of fake downvotes alongside the upvotes.

I think overall it's safe to say that the Ghostbusters audience ranking on RT has been trashed.

I think most of the movies audience score is fine. But I think some, such as Ghostbusters, are clearly stuffed to the point where they are meaningless.