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	Vote stuffing used to be a big problem in AniDB. Ratings used to be just the averages of all the votes, making it easy for narrowminded people to register multiple accounts in order to bump a series rating. This happened especially in the so called [[Top 10]], each series there used to have several hundred votes of both 1s and 10s, from fanboys of different shows.		Vote stuffing used to be a big problem in AniDB. Ratings used to be just the averages of all the votes, making it easy for narrowminded people to register multiple accounts in order to bump a series rating. This happened especially in the so called [[Top 10]], each series there used to have several hundred votes of both 1s and 10s, from fanboys of different shows.

	''Salvation has arrived!'' A heuristic was deviced which virtually nips this problem in its bud. It no longer matters. Votes are weighted in a manner that makes vote stuffing obsolete.		'''Salvation has arrived!''' A heuristic was deviced which virtually nips this problem in its bud. It no longer matters. Votes are weighted in a manner that makes vote stuffing obsolete.