# User ratings

> User ratings let your visitors rate movies, TV shows and collections from 1 to 10. This page explains who can vote, how the rating of each title is calculated with the IMDb and TMDb ratings, and where ratings appear.

Source: https://doothemes.com/docs/dbmovies/modules/user-ratings

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## Overview

Your visitors can rate your titles from **1 to 10**. Each title shows the average rating and its number of votes, and your theme can use them to sort titles and show top-rated lists.

Ratings work on movies, TV shows and collections. Your theme shows the rating widget on the pages where you want visitors to vote.

## Who can vote

- **Members** with an account. They vote once per title and can change their vote at any time. They can also remove it from their account.
- **Visitors without an account.** Dbmovies recognizes them with a cookie for 30 days, so they also vote once per title and can change their vote during that time.

## How the rating is calculated

The rating of a title is the average of all its votes, with one decimal. When you import a title, its **IMDb rating** and its **TMDb rating** are added as one vote each. So:

- a title you just imported already has a rating (the average of its IMDb and TMDb ratings) and 2 votes;
- each visitor vote is added to that average.

When the [Meta Updater](https://doothemes.com/docs/dbmovies/tools/metaupdater) refreshes a title, it updates its IMDb and TMDb ratings, and the average with them. Visitor votes are kept.

For example, a movie with IMDb 8.0 and TMDb 7.6 starts at 7.8 with 2 votes. If a visitor rates it 10, it moves to 8.5 with 3 votes.

## Members' ratings in their account

Members find all the titles they rated in their account. In [Wovie](https://doothemes.com/items/wovie), it is **Account › Ratings**, with:

- their number of ratings and their average;
- their latest ratings and their top ratings;
- the full list, sorted by date or score and filtered by movies or TV shows.

From there they can remove a rating.

![Account › Ratings in Wovie, with the summary and the list of rated titles](https://cdn.wupdater.com/dbmovies/docs/f3e3bc95149cadf2.webp)

## Ratings in the admin

The **Ratings** column of the Movies, TV Shows and Collections lists shows the rating and the votes of each title, and you can sort by it. See [Movies](https://doothemes.com/docs/dbmovies/post-types/movies#the-movies-list).

Collections can also list their titles by rating. See [Collections](https://doothemes.com/docs/dbmovies/post-types/collections).

[SCREENSHOT_HERE: The Movies list sorted by the Ratings column, showing ratings and votes]

## Security

Each vote carries a security token of its page, so votes cannot be sent from outside your site, and only scores from 1 to 10 are accepted. A member can only change or remove their own votes.