• deweydecibel@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Should probably also be acknowledged that the sample size is not going to be the same.

    You’re going to get a bunch of people piling in to highly rate the early episodes that they remember watching when they were kids, but a significantly lower number are going to be voting on the episodes that came later.

    Really the whole premise of trying to compare and contrast the seasons for such a long running show that existed before IMDb even started is flawed on many levels.

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      7 months ago

      If the music labels are botting up Spotify playcounts, are media producers botting up IMDb ratings?

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        7 months ago

        Yes, it has been observed that IMDb sometimes get a lot of new “single post users” putting in 10/10 ratings on Disney movies that otherwise scored badly.