Favorites Boosting Accounts: Ranking Recalculations

@Kineta (suggestion!)
I think it's better to stop updating the favorite ranking daily and instead only updating it when you recalculate it as you do with Top Anime, this will definitely frustrate the trolls. Also, you still should check this, it's clearly done by bots
https://myanimelist.net/character/66975/Shin_Yasuda
https://myanimelist.net/character/160206/Saki_Yumihara

damn One Piece characters got slaughtered after the second recalculation lmao . Great work by MAL mods keep it clean! Gojou Satoru from jjk is still sus to me though gaining 27k in such short period

Luffy lose 7k votes again . it looks Like you don't want it to go up anyway.

In June 2014 there were only 2 characters with over 20k favourites. Now (even after the bot/fake account removal) they're both over 100k and with a third character having joined them there.

They are increasing - also bear in mind this isn't like anime entries where people will keep adding them but never remove them - favourites get removed as well. It's literally only from new people joining that this gets to go up, and most of them won't be adding any specific character to their favourites.

Do you think you guys will ever be able to do this for the Anime rankings? Cause there are alot of duplicate accounts giving anime 1s or 10s to change the rating

its bullshit lol... the guy deleting those numbers are freestyling it according to his own taste im pretty sure... jinbe still has 2.8k whereas a year ago he only had 600 is the proof for that, rapidly hit 1k around december and reached a peak 4.7k, thats 4k bots for all i care... they probably think jinbe is a strawhat and labeled as "main" character now so its somewhat justified lol

Rip ichigo bozo 🤣🤣🤣

Yeah that's what I'm confused about myself.. it just doesn't add up

Great job! Hope you will do this cleanup to Top Popular Anime/Manga as well, since a large percentage of the animes members are bots, especially the Top 10.

Bro, you remove favorites just from certain characters, huh? There's not a chance that Levi and Lelouch didn't have their numbers boosted by bots, but somehow they're completely unchanged?

You actually only shafted Luffy and Zoro from top 10 lmao. Is this some bias against One Piece or what?

or may be Luffy and Zoro actually were recieving HUGE amounts of bots to boost them and ALL the other one piece main characters so they just went where they belong in the rankings now

Definitely a possibillity. But they both had their numbers redacted once already. And now they had the same happen to them again. Meanwhile, all the others in top 10 stayed at exactly the same numbers. You can't tell me that ONLY Luffy and Zoro had bots?

actually many characters lost favorites i am monitoring the top 300 like it's my job with consistency and i'am telling u that characters are losing favs right NOW cuz it's a system that keeps detecting duplicate accounts not just one time

It wouldn't surprise me if the "second batch" of one piece fav removals were all the same person. If one person makes 4000 alt accounts, of course they're gonna fav the same chars on all of them and those are the chars that will lose favourites.

Edit: Actually that's the wrong way of putting it. Better would be to say that it would surprise me if it was anything else.

yeah you can say there was fake bots . but tried to convince there ware around 90k fake bots. Hell no

I think my signature is not working

Long Live Lord Nux

did they forget to remove lelouch and levi bot ???

Obviously a good move by MAL authorities!

I was surprised to see when Light Yagami's followers count suddenly got below 100k . But now i got to know it was the action of MAL. Well, not only Light, but many character's count has been decreased btw

still excited to see boi Levi is famous. My favorite;)

HOW THE HELL DID GOKU HAVE 52% VOTES FROM ALT ACCOUNTS YOU GOTTA BE KIDDING MEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

wow that was pretty accurate indeed they were 90k (till now)

Imagine wasting ur time to boost some rankings for anime. KEKW megaweebs xDDD

Imagine saying this on a website that's all about anime and weebs. KEKW megajerk xDDD

Some peopletruly have nothing better to do with their lives than to try and boost mediocre anime by silencing critical voices and spamming the like button through duplicate accounts. Sad.

Mod Edit: Removed quote of entire first post.

Just came across this thread by accident. I really don't fathom the amount of fanaticism for "boosting" scores of fictional content. At least Amazon review farms have a purpose of making a company money through sales due to positive reviews. This is more like kiddie fan crush efforts to prop up toy soldiers. The effort involved is real .... just not realistically constructive.

Good efforts by MAL to normalize their ranking systems. Not sure how effective it will be but good efforts towards a positive goal!! 9/10.....LOL

Thanks for your hardwork
Chika is so boosted

That's absurd, why would someone boost a fictional character, what do they gain from it?

The insecurity of some of these people....

The people in here complaining and/or are upset are probably the same people who were boosting their favs.

Considering the fact that none of these rankings have any meaningful impact, I cannot imagine how sad and pathetic one must be to make many accounts boosting a character or anime they are obsessed with. If there was some sort of awards or something, maybe, but NOTHING? Jesus Christ on a cross.

Satisfaction

Recount anime ratings asap

Oh, so this boosting was a thing after all. I always saw my notif always getting "this character has reached # members". So that was some dudes who loves the series that they would do anything to notice their beloved characters. What vanity it is😤. I just hope people these days aren't swayed because of its high ranking achievements but instead criticize it themselves.

I am thankful that there are some measures getting implemented to secure the integrity of myanimelist for fairness. I hope there's still more to be done.

P.S. Baiting must stop.

👏👏👏👏

now we ichigo fans are gonna get shit on even the ones who didnt do anything :pensive:

Still Okabe Rintarou :v

>Lelouch still at the top

>Code Geass fans are like, "HE'S STILL NOT HIGH ENOUGH!"

Because he must be . . . Zero.

*cough*

They're not completely unchanged since there favourites also evidently did fall by a notable number. Maybe, a lot of their favourites were also genuine, y'know

Lelouch was almost at 200,000 before the bots were removed. He dropped by 60,000-70,000 favorites lol. That's a lot of favorites, it's just that he has so many genuine ones that make the drop seem small. Levi also dropped by 40,000-50,000 favorites.

Nice!

You don't know the fanaticism of the Code Geass fandom. . . .

Itsuki(Go toubun) Chika(Kaguya sama) Mami(Rent A Girlfriend) are still being Botted until now. The Bots Makers really never give up on Botting. can you check it out in a few days their increase in favs is not normal.

why not just delete the favorites? since you gonna delete, delete them all

Why??

becoz of bots accounts...many bots downvoted fmab,gintama,hunter x hunter ,logh,and other top rated anime and one piece fans upvoted one piece (8.48 to 8.55 in few months)

But how does that affect your anime viewing experience? do you enjoy based on strangers scores?

if they werent high rated probably i wouldnt hv watched them in first place..so it does mttr to me..they are true masterpiece unlike other underserving high rated shows

haha peeps actually got time fo that created bunch of accounts to boost their fav chara's? Aaaah~I bet they're just some newly grown up kids fully fanatic for their fav anime I guess.