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Post by mslo79 on Feb 16, 2017 3:58:04 GMT
I changed all my ratings to one star when I left there, just because I now hate the place. why would you do that? don't you want to keep a record of what you think of movies etc? because while i don't like them closing the forums over there, especially the forums tied to each individual movie(as you can get some good topics/conversations here and there on random movies), ill still use the site to keep a log of everything i have seen and what i rated it. but i already have some text files on my computer logging my favorite movies and pretty much everything i at least mildly like. but still, it's nice to know basically everything i have seen and IMDb pretty much does that for me(i am sure there are some movies i have seen that i don't have rated but it's very minimal as i would assume it's less than 50 movies beyond the total i have rated.).
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Post by mslo79 on Feb 16, 2017 4:07:47 GMT
With all of those often-inflated ratings, it was generally possible to discern whether or not a movie was good, based on the integrity of the discussion forums' comments. IMDB, know that you have cut off your right hand with your left. i never thought about this much, but come to think of it... i could possibly see that as a angle for calculating what you said to some degree. like if it's overrun by kids/spam and it's rated high chances are they skewed it's average rating a bit too high. but if it's a movie that's known but does not attract a lot of the kids then it's ratings are probably a bit more accurate. so i guess about the best one can hope for is a movie that's at least semi-known or known (i say semi-known/known because going too far off the radar and the chances of finding a quality movie diminish quite a bit in my experience) but does not attract too many of those who spam high or low scores. either way, i don't think there is any sure fire way of predicting whether ill like or dislike a movie based on it's average rating as i think, which i would imagine you would agree with, when you have seen plenty of movies you can generally get a rough idea of how a movie will turn out based on the following four key areas, which are... subject matter/cast/director/trailer. i realize that a director is not always a factor (or even cast for that matter) as those with more established names are not always releasing movies but i think subject matter/trailer are generally pretty consistent.
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Feb 16, 2017 4:30:32 GMT
I changed all my ratings to one star when I left there, just because I now hate the place. why would you do that? The guy's an idiot and proud of it. There's plenty of them rating things all the time on such sites, dealing 10's to whatever they find "AWESOME" and 1's to things they oppose for some reason. This is why public rating systems of any sort are essentially worthless.
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Post by Leo of Red Keep on Feb 16, 2017 5:05:37 GMT
IMDb users shouldn't be permitted to vote on a film until at least three months AFTER its theatrical release. It would defeat the purpose. The ratings are two things. The first is a way of giving users satisfaction by allowing them to "speak their mind" on a public place in a simple way (without making complicated sentences): "There I can say how much I LOVE what I love". It is meant to bind them to the site.
The second is to catch the hype on new things and start the snowball effect which makes a big success: "Look at this new show, it has a rating over 9!" The next thing you know, everyone wants to see the first episode to jump on the train. This is a real time hypemeter, you don't want to delay it.
You thought it was meant to be an objective collection of thought out opinions? Guess again.
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Post by j2 on Feb 16, 2017 8:44:54 GMT
I changed all my ratings to one star when I left there, just because I now hate the place. Very well done, thank you.
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Post by j2 on Feb 16, 2017 8:48:22 GMT
I changed all my ratings to one star when I left there, just because I now hate the place. why would you do that? don't you want to keep a record of what you think of movies etc? .... Anything against them favors us.
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Post by j2 on Feb 16, 2017 8:50:36 GMT
IMDb users shouldn't be permitted to vote on a film until at least three months AFTER its theatrical release. moot? Anyway, speak for yourself. Why, so the studios have three months to sucker everybody into watching whatever they come up with?
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Post by SuperDevilDoctor on Feb 16, 2017 14:39:26 GMT
IMDb users shouldn't be permitted to vote on a film until at least three months AFTER its theatrical release. moot? Anyway, speak for yourself. Why, so the studios have three months to sucker everybody into watching whatever they come up with? No. It's so the effect of immature little fucktards who kneejerk-rate films a "1" ("haters") or "10" ("fanboys") will be diminished. They wouldn't have the patience to wait 90 days to play their kiddie games... Thus the vast majority of them wouldn't bother with IMDb. (No instant gratification.)
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Post by j2 on Feb 16, 2017 14:52:01 GMT
moot? Anyway, speak for yourself. Why, so the studios have three months to sucker everybody into watching whatever they come up with? No. It's so the effect of immature little fucktards who kneejerk-rate films a "1" ("haters") or "10" ("fanboys") will be diminished. They wouldn't have the patience to wait 90 days to play their kiddie games... Thus the vast majority of them wouldn't bother with IMDb. (No instant gratification.) What you say might make sense, but if it were to work it would work at the expense of the rest of us. I say imdb and its ratings can go to hell.
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