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Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by duckmysick »

waspight wrote: post #75

I have always wondered about the ratings. It seems to me that all movies below 6 is trash. Has this always been this way? One would imagine that a 5 star rating would be ok since it is right between 0 (bad) and 10 (great). I guess some kind of inflation in the ratings is going on, but how is such things prevented in these kinds of ratings over time? Is it even possible to prevent?

L'equipe, a French sports newspaper, sticks to the traditional interpretation of the 1-10 scale when rating players' performances. In football (soccer), they rate all players on both teams who played enough minutes, so there's at least 22 ratings per match - 5/10 being average and 10/10 being truly exceptional.

Since the late 80s they have given only a dozen or so perfect 10/10 ratings. Almost half of them was given in the past five years, so I guess inflation creeps up everywhere.

Re: Fake IMDB credits

#102

Post by jlg23 »

UIUC_06 wrote: post #82
hackernewds wrote: post #55

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You're using "Slumdog Millionaire" in the same context that Indians here despise the movie for. Using it as a pretext for focusing on the poverty in India as almost a fetishized poking from the West (ironically by the British)

I haven't actually been to India, but I'm reliably informed that there IS some poverty there. Is that incorrect?

No, that is not incorrect; but there also is much more.

Re: Fake IMDB credits

#104

Post by cobbaut »

humaniania wrote: post #57
dav_Oz wrote: post #14

I remember the imdb-ratings on movies from India were also absurdly high, I brushed it off as a cultural thing back then; but unfortunately [0] the rigging seems to be norm on imdb across the board (not limited to India). [0] https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/the-kashmir...

After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database. Same thing as when Warner Bros and Universal Studios (via its parent Comcast) bought RottenTomatoes. Now everything brags about it's RT rating when it's coming from 2 movie studios...

> After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database.

Yes, but several years later, since Amazon bought IMDB back in 1998!

Re: Fake IMDB credits

#105

Post by UIUC_06 »

robocat wrote: post #64
UIUC_06 wrote: post #18

Poor boys from India game a system that was set up by Rich Tech Bros in Silicon Valley to fund their "family foundations" and 20-room houses in Atherton? I don't call it Outrage; I call it "Slumdog Millionaire: Part II"

I hate it when people create a false narrative to back up their prejudices. The beginnings of IMDB started in 1990 as personal files, soon moved to Usenet with a few people managing different information, then first on the WWW hosted by Cardiff University in 1993, and the company was then incorporated in the UK in 1996, and sold to Amazon in 1998. https://www.theatreartlife.com/lifestyle/history-of-an-indis...

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Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by tyingq »

humaniania wrote: post #57
dav_Oz wrote: post #14

I remember the imdb-ratings on movies from India were also absurdly high, I brushed it off as a cultural thing back then; but unfortunately [0] the rigging seems to be norm on imdb across the board (not limited to India). [0] https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/the-kashmir...

After Amazon bought IMDB it became more about advertising for movies and less about being a database. Same thing as when Warner Bros and Universal Studios (via its parent Comcast) bought RottenTomatoes. Now everything brags about it's RT rating when it's coming from 2 movie studios...

>less about being a database

I do really like the "X-ray" feature in Amazon Prime, which I assume is partially powered by IMDB. I miss it when using other services like HBOMax, Netflix, etc.

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by Strom »

walrus01 wrote: post #90
croes wrote: post #4

Reminds of this "Man fools security to backstage at a Peking Duk gig by changing the band's Wikipedia page to describe himself as a family member" https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3345074/Man-fools-s...

Now imagine where he could get to if he had a high-vis vest and a clipboard

A great strategy but has its limits. Just a few weeks ago some guys tried a rather good version of this strategy in Estonia to sneak into a Rammstein concert. Not only did they have high-vis vests, but one of them also had high-vis pants, both of them had working gloves and they were carrying a ladder. [1]

It didn't work out though, they didn't get past security. I think one of the major flaws in their attempt was that they arrived too late, thousands of regular people were already on the premises. They should have come early in the morning.

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[1] https://f7.pmo.ee/Rur-qzbdJAu0h_EKSRoidSHPFsg=/1536x0/nginx/...

Re: Fake IMDB credits

#108

Post by cobbaut »

OnlyMortal wrote: post #28
UIUC_06 wrote: post #18

Poor boys from India game a system that was set up by Rich Tech Bros in Silicon Valley to fund their "family foundations" and 20-room houses in Atherton? I don't call it Outrage; I call it "Slumdog Millionaire: Part II"

IMDB originated in Bristol in the UK. It was, so I’m told, started by an ex-HP staffer from the HP site in Bristol, UK and originally written in Perl. Unfortunately, it was absorbed into Amazon. Source: ex-HP staffer in Bristol.

IMDB originated on usenet. Someone mentioned a hot actress, another person made a top three of actresses... a bit later is was a top 100, and that is how IMDB started. Source: my memory :)

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by squeebie23 »

I find it interesting that nowhere in the article did the author write the name of the actor / musician he's referring to, it's only highlighted in pictures. Maybe trying not to add to this guy's SEO?

Re: Fake IMDB credits

#110

Post by chx »

jwilk wrote: post #48
leephillips wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That’s hilarious. Wikipedia classifies IMDB as unreliable because...anyone can edit its pages.

Wikipedia is not considered reliable either: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Wikipe... > Content from a Wikipedia article is not considered reliable unless it is backed up by citing reliable sources. Confirm that these sources support the content, then use them directly. But, unlike IMDB, it's (supposed to be) verifiable.

Except you can use obscure dead tree books as sources and no one will take the effort to check whether the book indeed says so. Use a book obscure enough -- especially in a non-English language -- and it becomes almost impossible to execute said check.
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