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    From Arelor@VERT/PALANTIR to Mindsurfer on Saturday, September 27, 2025 13:31:39
    Re: Highest 2 Lowest
    By: Mindsurfer to Digital Man on Fri Sep 19 2025 10:26 pm

    It's really strange about the good ratings. Given that it's fairly well known how Spotify charts are compiled, you could almost think that someone is manipulating the ratings for films too.
    Or maybe it's a generational issue and the younger generation simply has different tastes. who knows.

    I don't know about this particular case, but I am sure movie ratings in most common platforms are completely manipulated.

    I remember films as bad as Time Trap getting very good scores from user comments, but when you checked the user reviews you could tell it was all orchestrated. Lots of people agreeing to praise certain part of the film that is objectively bad, or criticising certain thing that was not worth focusing on... that is a tell sign that it was an organized effort to affect the ratings and percection of the movie.

    It is not so obvious most of the time, but if you pay close attention you often see this. You often see this happen with videogame reviews. For example, many reviews about Veilguard paraphrased certain sentences wortd-by-word.


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  • From MRO@VERT/BBSESINF to Arelor on Saturday, September 27, 2025 21:05:35
    Re: Highest 2 Lowest
    By: Arelor to Mindsurfer on Sat Sep 27 2025 01:31 pm

    I don't know about this particular case, but I am sure movie ratings
    in most common platforms are completely manipulated.

    I remember films as bad as Time Trap getting very good scores from
    user comments, but when you checked the user reviews you could tell


    i think the female ghost busters movie had artifically inflated ratings in
    the beginning until reality caught up. rotten tomatoes still compares it to much better movies.

    it was a bad movie with bad writing which blamed it's failure on misogyny.

    you just can't trust any ratings. they're all lies.
    even amazon reviews are plagued with paid reviews. i cant trust a review for
    a product if this person got it for free and they want to give a good wordy review because they want more free things(vine).


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