DinoToyBlog Star Ratings

[Gwangi]

Anyway, the end result is that the final rating is proabably more or less what it would be without all the dodgy duplicates anyway!

I guess that's the biggest takeaway. It probably all evens out in the end. I don't like the idea of bots or spammers influencing the vote, it kind of defeats the purpose of it, but for most reviews it probably doesn't change things enough to lose sleep over it, or overhaul the entire thing.

[DinoToyForum]

Anyway, the end result is that the final rating is proabably more or less what it would be without all the dodgy duplicates anyway!

I guess that's the biggest takeaway. It probably all evens out in the end. I don't like the idea of bots or spammers influencing the vote, it kind of defeats the purpose of it, but for most reviews it probably doesn't change things enough to lose sleep over it, or overhaul the entire thing.

I've changed the settings to allow visitors to vote again. Overall, I think it's more fun this way.

[Gwangi]

Anyway, the end result is that the final rating is proabably more or less what it would be without all the dodgy duplicates anyway!

I guess that's the biggest takeaway. It probably all evens out in the end. I don't like the idea of bots or spammers influencing the vote, it kind of defeats the purpose of it, but for most reviews it probably doesn't change things enough to lose sleep over it, or overhaul the entire thing.

I've changed the settings to allow visitors to vote again. Overall, I think it's more fun this way.

I agree.

[DinoToyForum]

I should also reiterate that because visitor IP addresses are recorded, I can in principle correlate visitor votes to forum members. So, going forward, if I identify forum members obviously manipulating the votes by voting multiple times, I'll chalk that up as a violation of forum rule 2 (No Spam, maybe I'll update the rule wording to account for vote manipulation specifically) and take action accordingly.

Edited.

[Sim]

@DinoToyForum, I think voting abuse has been occuring on the Safari 2020 Edmontosaurus review: https://dinotoyblog.com/edmontosaurus-2020wild-safari-by-safari-ltd/  It has a surprisingly low rating, a LOT of votes, and checking what people have voted shows the most voted number is "1" by far.  This figure is not a 1-star figure.  I'm confident an individual has been repeatedly voting one star to bring the rating down again.

[Libraraptor]

@DinoToyForum, I think voting abuse has been occuring on the Safari 2020 Edmontosaurus review: https://dinotoyblog.com/edmontosaurus-2020wild-safari-by-safari-ltd/  It has a surprisingly low rating, a LOT of votes, and checking what people have voted shows the most voted number is "1" by far.  This figure is not a 1-star figure.  I'm confident an individual has been repeatedly voting one star to bring the rating down again.

Who has that much time and what Was their intent? I can not understand people doing this. Makes me angry.

[DinoToyForum]

@DinoToyForum, I think voting abuse has been occuring on the Safari 2020 Edmontosaurus review: https://dinotoyblog.com/edmontosaurus-2020wild-safari-by-safari-ltd/  It has a surprisingly low rating, a LOT of votes, and checking what people have voted shows the most voted number is "1" by far.  This figure is not a 1-star figure.  I'm confident an individual has been repeatedly voting one star to bring the rating down again.

I'll look into this, thanks for flagging it.

[DinoToyForum]

@DinoToyForum, I think voting abuse has been occuring on the Safari 2020 Edmontosaurus review: https://dinotoyblog.com/edmontosaurus-2020wild-safari-by-safari-ltd/  It has a surprisingly low rating, a LOT of votes, and checking what people have voted shows the most voted number is "1" by far.  This figure is not a 1-star figure.  I'm confident an individual has been repeatedly voting one star to bring the rating down again.

Who has that much time and what Was their intent? I can not understand people doing this. Makes me angry.

It could just be bots.

[DinoToyForum]

@DinoToyForum, I think voting abuse has been occuring on the Safari 2020 Edmontosaurus review: https://dinotoyblog.com/edmontosaurus-2020wild-safari-by-safari-ltd/  It has a surprisingly low rating, a LOT of votes, and checking what people have voted shows the most voted number is "1" by far.  This figure is not a 1-star figure.  I'm confident an individual has been repeatedly voting one star to bring the rating down again.

I'll look into this, thanks for flagging it.

I deleted all the suspicious 1-star votes

[Gwangi]

I hate to keep bringing this up but the PNSO Alamosaurus I posted this past weekend now has 7 one star votes. That seems suspicious to me @DinoToyForum . 

[DinoToyForum]

I hate to keep bringing this up but the PNSO Alamosaurus I posted this past weekend now has 7 one star votes. That seems suspicious to me @DinoToyForum . 

Yeah, I see lots of 1 star reviews have been added in bulk, for this review and many others. I'm deleting them now, no problem.

[Gwangi]

Seems suspicious that these reviews have received 8 one-star votes over a very short amount of time.

https://dinotoyblog.com/diabloceratops-haolonggood/

https://dinotoyblog.com/therizinosaurus-wild-safari-by-safari-ltd/

[suspsy]

Yeah, something is definitely wrong there. And with this one too:

https://dinotoyblog.com/quetzalcoatlus-jurassic-world-mega-dual-attack-by-mattel-2/

[DinoToyForum]

Yeah, probably foul play. I'll check and remove the dodgy votes.

I recently added the star ratings feature to https://monstertoyblog.com reviews (on the reviews but not the excerpts) so let's see if people/bots begin to abuse that too!

[Gwangi]

Yeah, probably foul play. I'll check and remove the dodgy votes.

I recently added the star ratings feature to https://monstertoyblog.com reviews (on the reviews but not the excerpts) so let's see if people/bots begin to abuse that too!

I still suspect foul play over bots but it's interesting that the two reviews I linked to each received exactly 8 votes and were posted back-to-back.

[DinoToyForum]

Removed the blanket 1 star reviews. Pretty sure it's just bots.

[SidB]

Good move - enough of that "nattering nabob of negativism" (to quote the late, not necessarily great Spiro T. Agnew).