Douban responds to the abnormal ratings of "The Wandering Earth" and says that there are no positive reviews that were bought and changed to negative reviews

On February 12, Douban responded to the rumors of abnormal ratings of the movie "The Wandering Earth" and "five-star short reviews changed to one star". Douban said that after investigation, there was no case of "highly praised reviews being bought and changed to bad reviews". According to statistics from its engineers, there was indeed a case of a user changing his rating from four stars to one star yesterday, and the user later deleted the rating.

Among the movies released during the Spring Festival, The Wandering Earth became a dark horse, with both good reputation and box office success. On the evening of February 10, The Wandering Earth's box office exceeded 2 billion yuan. As of noon on February 12, its cumulative box office had reached nearly 2.4 billion yuan. However, as the box office continued to rise, its Douban movie score declined.

Previously, the rating of "The Wandering Earth" on Douban Movies was as high as 8.5 points, but it has now dropped to 7.9 points. Unlike the natural fluctuations of normal movie ratings, the rapid changes in the ratings of "The Wandering Earth" have attracted much attention and directly led to Douban App being rated one star by fans of "The Wandering Earth".

Some netizens pointed out that Douban caused "public outrage" this time because the original highly praised five-star and four-star reviews were changed to one-star reviews after receiving tens of thousands of likes, and some of them were found to have received money for changing the one-star reviews.

Douban responded to this. Douban Films engineers counted the top 500 hot reviews (highly praised reviews) of The Wandering Earth and found that only four users had modified their ratings across scores (non-adjacent scores): two users changed their ratings from three stars to one star; one user changed their ratings from one star to three stars; one user changed their ratings from two stars to five stars;

"There are rumors that a user changed the four-star rating of "The Wandering Earth" to one star. There was indeed a case yesterday, and the user later deleted the rating." Douban said that it is currently optimizing product functions, and after the rating is modified, the "useful" (likes) data before the modification will be cleared.

According to a message released by former Douban Movies editor-in-chief and film critic "Yingzhi" in the early morning of the 12th, some netizens asked him to change the rating of "The Wandering Earth" to one star and provide a reward of 10,000 yuan. However, Yingzhi said that he would not change the score.

Douban netizen “Dialing” posted a message in the early morning of the 12th, saying: “The infamy that Douban is carrying now is actually caused by me alone from beginning to end. I was led step by step to this point by various unfounded screenshot speculations. It really makes me laugh and cry.” The netizen also said that he “just changed the score to show that users have the freedom to have one star.”