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Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by cubancigar11 »

theamk wrote: post #56
cubancigar11 wrote: post #41

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Ummm, this is SEO? Because it is a hack from google's algo? This is exactly my problem with the "hackers" here and the article's author - conflating the action with content. He finds an unscroupolous usage of that hack and generalizes without any effort that all of it is fraud. It is not okay to glide over the 'young people' part and generally not being empathetic to those trying to beat the market. If it is fraud, w…

I would love to have a way to punish people for submitting knownlingly bad information to publicly editable databases like IMDB (note I don't care about Google, it is IMDB that should be protected) Jail is too much, but it woukd be nice to have a fine of some sort, because "poisining the well" for everyone is really not cool. (in practice any such system would be abused a lot, so we are probably better off with statu…

Right. We can achieve heaven if we just punish every sin. Not trusting almighty Google's algorithm is just too much sacrifice the good people are making.

Promoting publicly editable database as authoritative is high bar we must achieve at the cost of just banning juvenile behavior.

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by yesenadam »

helsinkiandrew wrote: post #34
RC_ITR wrote: post #29

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IMDb was founded in Cardiff England.

There’s a thousand Welshman looking for your blood now. Cardiff is in Wales. Initially was called the Cardiff Internet Movie Database (it was hosted at the university of Cardiff)

Not only in Wales but is the capital. (source: am Welsh)

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by HelipadSweeper »

There is a profile for a person named Giuseppe Macario on IMDB. The profile claims he was a writer for a commercial involving Julia Roberts. It's a lie.

He created the profile prior to running for office in Italy under the political party "Free Flights to Italy" in 2018. A reporter for Rolling Stone (Italy) dug into the claim. She discovered it was fake along with many of his other claims.

The guy has a long, long history of making questionable claims about himself online.

Here is the profile:

https://www.imdb.com/name/nm6868326/

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by marak830 »

throwawayaug8 wrote: post #120
jwilk wrote: post #48

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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.

According to Wikipedia Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla. That's how reliable Wikipedia is

"The company was incorporated as Tesla Motors, Inc. on July 1, 2003, by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.[13]"

No, it doesn't.

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by zaik »

duckmysick wrote: post #101
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…

Maybe today's football players are simply performing better than players from the 80s?

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Post by stordoff »

chx wrote: post #127
johannes1234321 wrote: post #112

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It depend so. The amount of trust I want to give. By citing an obscure book I can judge the fact "hm, that book sounds obscure, why isn't there some other source?" and then decide how much weight I give to it. And if I don't have the book at hand I can identify the person who added the citation and can see what other edits they did to judge their domain knowledge.

No one does this. And Wikipedia myths spread to other media until it's hard to pinpoint where it started.

Sometimes referred to as citogenesis: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Circular_reporting#Circular_re...

There is a list of known incidents: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:List_of_citogenesis_...

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by jimnotgym »

nslzk wrote: post #83
gameshot911 wrote: post #63

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That's an intriguing idea... I'd be interested if you care to expand upon it!

Well that’s the gist of it… make it so easterns can’t access western websites and other internet services and vice versa.

What outcome did you have in mind?

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by delecti »

throwawayaug8 wrote: post #120
jwilk wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

According to Wikipedia Elon Musk is the founder of Tesla. That's how reliable Wikipedia is

Elon Musk is legally "a founder" of Tesla, but that's different from having founded Tesla, and that difference doesn't say anything about Wikipedia's credibility.

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by treeman79 »

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...

Wikipedia just had a huge controversy where definition of recession was changed to matched political narrative.

https://youtu.be/gegkEkFIsWs

Re: Fake IMDB credits

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Post by Tao3300 »

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...

The band handled it exactly the way you'd want them to.
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