Illegitimate (Duplicate) Account Detection System: Scores Will Be Recalculated Site-Wide

avengingangel2 said:


There are literally bot accounts downvoting the anime right now. Fruits Basket is one of the best Shojo anime of all time. As a season, it definitely deserves a high rating because it was a great ending to the story.

Your comment might have had a bigger impact, if you hadn't given 1 star to fruba while talking about "the giant that is FMAB." At least give the anime a try (from season 1, not 3 because the story won't make much sense)

deg said:
the Anti Bot System cannot correct scores from legitimate and long time users afaik so clearly there are group of long time users here on MAL that are vote brigading

laslodj said:


Yes, I agree with you, every anime needs a chance, but my point is that this happened to many anime's before Fruit's basket and MAL tried to fight it but you can't fight real fans rating it 1/10.

Botting 1/10's is not as bad as you think it is (not in the sense that it's not morally bad, of course it is, but in the sense that it happens way less than actual fans rating it 1).

MAL's bot detection system is very successful at fighting fully automatic bots, the reason the downvoting is this significant is because FMAB is an anime with an incredible following.

It has hundreds of thousands of people coming to its rescue to bring it back to 1st place, but Fruit's basket is a niche anime that has no chance to fight back.

Also, I didn't give Fruit's basket a 1/10 out of a grudge or hatred for it because it passed FMAB, that would make everything I said hypocritical, I just rated it that way to make a point. Here's that post if it interests you: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1934678&show=0#post7 .



Exactly.

avengingangel2 said:


How about instead of making a point, actually rating whatever you have watched with whatever rating you feel it's the best for it? As an entity, The final deserved that 9.18 rating because the people who didn't drop it in the past 2 seasons, love the anime. And some people who loved the first two seasons hated the third and that is also acceptable.

You should really remove the rating and add some Tohru into your life. Also, don't forget to drink water.

laslodj said:
Why are you Fruit's basket fans trying to make this sound like a serious global conflict when anime's get downvoted from the first place all the time?

Life is unfair, bear with it. Fruit's basket is a niche anime and cannot surpass the giant that is FMAB.

positiv2 said:

Oh no, god forbid if people care about anything other than famine in Africa and half the global population having consensual intercourse with your mother.

positiv2 said:

Oh no, god forbid if people care about anything other than famine in Africa and half the global population having consensual intercourse with your mother.

stellar24 said:
Great job MAL! Honestly, 10 years ago, i heavily referring to rating for my next watchlist. And it's kind of sad to see that people abuse to downgrade certain great anime just to ensure their favorite on top.

BlondieLottie said:
I personally don't know what MAL's multi-account detection algorithm will be like, but for some time now I've been detecting a certain multi-account that I know, well... I don't need to say much about the troll.

BlondieLottie said:


Obviously they will do nothing. So much so that I'm tired of reporting these accounts (which to top it off continue to do the same thing only with another username)

This problem has recently been more driven than ever and it is really unfortunate that the MAL team does absolutely nothing.

Junchi said:
For the attention of moderators and admins: In the past few feeks (even months) numerous Chainsaw Man-related fake accounts/bots have been created just to manipulate the scores/character favorites/etc. A quick, yet painfully obvious example: https://myanimelist.net/profile/A8b6d4b4d4.

Maybe there are some other title-specific cases too, but the Chainsaw Man sector reeks with these.

Damuzen said:
I'm surprised nobody seemed to have realized it by now, but there are REALLY suspicious things going on with the episodes' discussion's scores for almost every seasonal anime since summer
Some episodes have thousands of different votes (something that almost never happens except if the episode is particularly popular) and even the less popular anime

For example, episode 2 of Bocchi the Rock (59k members) already passed the 1000 votes
Meanwhile, episode 1 of the latest season of Tensura (591k members) "only" has 814 votes

I don't know if people suddenly started to vote on the episode discussion topics, but imo that's just botting

KnightmareNEKO said:
Please, tell me someone that mods are already planning something about Stacks spam. This schizo not only an embarrassment for all of the people kind but he is ruining absolutely great Stacks system with his spam for all of us users.

IridescentJaune said:


I suppose you're talking about that user who goes by ishinashi[insert numbers here]? That user is a menace! Who would've thought that other users will get caught too by the spam filter and get unjustly banned all because of them when they should be banned instead for (1) creating multiple accounts, (2) spamming stacks and (3) targeting a community (look at the profile photos of their alts and check some of their posts).

Tip: Don't add "Hetero" or "H.etero" (or whatever they use as titles for their stacks) when reporting that user and their stacks/spams to avoid being caught as well by the spam filter.

BenchNaldo said:
Won't matter. Fmab fans don't need dupe accounts to review bomb other animes. All they need is 1 account since they are a huge fanbase. How about this... Just remove the rate button from anyone who has fmab rated as a 10 then this will solve all the problems.

WilTravis said:

I've said this before, simple way to end this is to section FMAB off as "best anime of all time big winner good job"
Give them a gold star and remove FMAB from the rating system. Crown the king and shuffle it off into a corner, let the rest of the shows get some love.

Or, limit ratings to after the season has finished. That keeps trolls from spouting off how stupid it is to rate a show '10' on its first episode. Dudes, that button is there, if I like the show, Imma scale it how I like, and adjust it when the rest of the season fails to live up.

Or, stop calling it "best anime of all time" and sort the rankings by years. That keeps older franchises with deep fan bases from rolling over new shows, and recency bias from overshadowing the classics.

I know none of this matters in reality, but if you're going to put yourself out there as a resource, at least make sure the toddlers don't scribble on all the pages.