cipheron said:Scordolo said:
Ok so if you don't like an anime and that has a high score it is done by bots?Lol people have different opinions.Grow up.
No, you can detect if it's happening.
You don't look at high scores however, you focus on 1/10 scores of directly competing shows and see if there's a pattern in what those accounts are also doing - like if 99% of people who hated LoGH also just happen to be a huge FMAB fan and those are the only two shows listed in their account, that would be strong evidence that those accounts exist as blatant troll accounts for score manipulation.
This is not saying that nobody could give LoGH 1/10 or FMAB 10/10, but it's about the
improbability of 1000's of people existing who only
ever saw exactly those two shows and gave those exact same scores, yet no such similar accounts exists that saw those two exact shows but "happened" to give LoGH 2/10 or greater. So you get a lot of blatant troll accounts which only ever rate things 1/10 OR 10/10 yet have nothing scored in the 2/10 to 9/10 range, and those accounts consistently down-vote everything that just happens to be close in the ratings to their one and only show they think gets 10/10.
So, for example, to find these, you look through LoGH's "stats" page, find the 1/10 accounts then look at those and you can get direct evidence of which specific shows those accounts are trying to "boost".
EDIT: btw I went through the LoGH scores and the most recent account that gave this 1/10 is this one, which is a one-day old account
https://myanimelist.net/animelist/Sara0707?status=2
And, predictably it's an account that downvotes every other show in the top-10 as 1/10 but also upvotes all AoT seasons as 10/10. This is what the troll accounts all look like. LoGH 1/10, Steins;Gate 1/10, FMAB 1/10, Gintama 1/10 then AoT: all 10/10 and they usually haven't seen
any other shows on their list. And there's no rhyme or reason to what shows they've actually seen. For example, this account apparently saw 3 Gatsu no Lion
second season and hated it, giving it 1/10. But ... they never even saw 3 Gatsu no Lion
first fucking season.
There's no evidence this is happening on an airing-seasons basis however. For Vivy, the direct competition is Fumetsu no Anata e, so to detect troll accounts using the above trick you'd look through accounts scoring Fumetsu no Anata e as 1/10 and see if they're consistently trolling for Vivy. But there just aren't many accounts gving Fumetsu no Anata e 1/10 in the first place, certainly not enough to shift any scores.