• Lucidlethargy
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    4 months ago

    PSA: The top 10 lists are 100% bought and paid for, or pushed by the streaming service in question.

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      4 months ago

      You know I’ve worked on these sorts of bullshit features (under protest) as a developer (special sorting algorithms that bump up the score of monetized entries over organic (aka real) ones) and somehow I never stopped to think that everyone was likely doing the same.

      Naivety, I guess

    • penquin@lemm.ee
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      4 months ago

      Absolutely. Ever since shitflix removed the star ratings and reviews that were done by real people, I stopped believing any of that “top list” bullshit.