Unsurprising. They've been putting their finger on the scale since Captain Marvel, if not earlier. The reliance of sites like these on access and advertisement is sufficient for corruption of their algorithms to be inevitable. The unwashed masses voting 'zero' do not pay IMDB's bills and their input will be discarded to appease the Media conglomerates who's content the site relies on.
EDIT: I should add that I was thinking of Rotten Tomatoes, not IMDB. I had reason to be suspicious of IMDB's ratings, but never evidence.
IMDB has been pulling this shit for a loooong time. Now they get financed to do it but in the past they just pulled scores they didn't agree with often.
I agree; the target audience of large swaths of the internet isn't normies-- it's advertisers.
To the extent that bot traffic can fake views for those ads, real people aren't needed or wanted in the process. These review sites serve the clients who pay for ads and coverage-- and they're listening to analytics that are based on impressions, not actual conversions to sales.
Enter Parrot Analytics, which uses social media impressions (even and especially negative ones!) as the measure of popularity which Big Media uses to justify its programing. This is the tail of the bot-driven internet being eaten by its own algorithms in an Ouroboros of shit-eating. The system is so fake and gay that gaming it will push consumerism past the breaking point. The only question is 'when?'
perhaps upper echilon (sorry cant spell that word right to save my life) will do an experiment to poke it,,, well either him or spiffing brit, hes messed with steam botnets before by artificaly manipulating the price of a cucumber emoji tricking them into auto buying them and raking in some profit.
The site died when they killed the message boards. The only reason I ever went back there was for the "actor cross-reference" search that they make hard to find. I don't even know if the feature is still available.
A quick calculation shows that if they just ignored every single 1/10 review that would put it around 7.36/10. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what their proprietary “we can’t tell you” score amounts to.
Would also explain why they don’t want to say, because simply voting 2/10 or 3/10 might avoid their censorship.
Unsurprising. They've been putting their finger on the scale since Captain Marvel, if not earlier. The reliance of sites like these on access and advertisement is sufficient for corruption of their algorithms to be inevitable. The unwashed masses voting 'zero' do not pay IMDB's bills and their input will be discarded to appease the Media conglomerates who's content the site relies on.
EDIT: I should add that I was thinking of Rotten Tomatoes, not IMDB. I had reason to be suspicious of IMDB's ratings, but never evidence.
Not any more.
IMDB has been pulling this shit for a loooong time. Now they get financed to do it but in the past they just pulled scores they didn't agree with often.
Only potentially honest site is metacritic |(user score) and they just pulled some bullshit excuse to lie recently. We all know the truth though.
I agree; the target audience of large swaths of the internet isn't normies-- it's advertisers.
To the extent that bot traffic can fake views for those ads, real people aren't needed or wanted in the process. These review sites serve the clients who pay for ads and coverage-- and they're listening to analytics that are based on impressions, not actual conversions to sales.
Enter Parrot Analytics, which uses social media impressions (even and especially negative ones!) as the measure of popularity which Big Media uses to justify its programing. This is the tail of the bot-driven internet being eaten by its own algorithms in an Ouroboros of shit-eating. The system is so fake and gay that gaming it will push consumerism past the breaking point. The only question is 'when?'
perhaps upper echilon (sorry cant spell that word right to save my life) will do an experiment to poke it,,, well either him or spiffing brit, hes messed with steam botnets before by artificaly manipulating the price of a cucumber emoji tricking them into auto buying them and raking in some profit.
The site died when they killed the message boards. The only reason I ever went back there was for the "actor cross-reference" search that they make hard to find. I don't even know if the feature is still available.
Nothing unusual about 2700 of 15000 reviews being perfect 10s, though. Apparently 18% of reviewers think it's the perfect film, and that's okay.
They also just recently removed ratings based on demographics (age and sex), which was useful for detecting woke movies (higher female rating).
Jesus, is anything NOT rigged? Anything at all. Even just one thing
Say imdb (amazon).
Same thing with Anne Bolyen (white) . Same thing with Rings of Power. same thing with fucking hell.
I'd love to see the "alternate weighting calculation". Or is it safe to assume it's just a number they pulled out of their ass?
A quick calculation shows that if they just ignored every single 1/10 review that would put it around 7.36/10. I wouldn’t be surprised if that’s what their proprietary “we can’t tell you” score amounts to.
Would also explain why they don’t want to say, because simply voting 2/10 or 3/10 might avoid their censorship.
They refuse to disclose how the calculation is done. So yes, they pulled it out of their ass
https://help.imdb.com/article/imdb/track-movies-tv/weighted-average-ratings/GWT2DSBYVT2F25SK?ref_=ttrt_wtavg#
If you remove all the 1's AND all the 10's, since the movie is obviously not perfect nor perfectly bad, you get 6.065, for what it's worth.