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voytec on Sept 7, 2023 | parent | context | favorite | on: The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes

Funny that iMDb is owned by Amazon and their retail platform is infested with counterfeit products and filled with reviews not worth looking at.

0x457 on Sept 7, 2023 [–]

IMDb has a pretty good scoring system for a long time. It isn't just "cumulative score / number of votes". Even reviews from legitimate users are discarded in many cases.

It also hard (impossible) to do bait and switch like sellers do on amazon.

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