Thread:Talk:Article feedback/IMDB rating: Only consider trustworthy users/reply (30)

But it's not "rare". I see it happening all the time. Maybe not specifically for "revenge" per say, but my area of "expertise" (if you can call it that) is actors (more specifically, former and current child stars). My dedication to the subject of child stars arose from the level of vandalism I found on younger stars' pages, so I took it upon myself to become one of the few editors dedicated to monitoring the pages most of the trusted adult Wikipedia editors, understandably, don't know anything about and/or couldn't care less about. As others have said - I've seen an extremely high number of fan/hate "votes" that have absolutely no reflection whatsoever on the merits of an article. Granted, this occurs more often on "celebrity" biography pages than on articles about astrophysicists, but there are a lot of highly trafficked "celebrity" Wikipedia pages, so the idea that this is "rare" doesn't hold water with me.

On the subject of IMDb's ratings system, I have to agree that if we are to keep the tool, then we could take a cue from IMDb. #1 - I've noticed IMDb does NOT allow "voting" on pages about people. #2 - On the pages where they DO allow "voting", the votes are invisible until there are at LEAST 10 votes. If people are absolutely dead-set on keeping this tool (which I've found completely useless on most of the "celebrity" pages I'm watching), then I would suggest following IMDb's lead on some of their guidelines.