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[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Should probably also be acknowledged that the sample size is not going to be the same.

You're going to get a bunch of people piling in to highly rate the early episodes that they remember watching when they were kids, but a significantly lower number are going to be voting on the episodes that came later.

Really the whole premise of trying to compare and contrast the seasons for such a long running show that existed before IMDb even started is flawed on many levels.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

If the music labels are botting up Spotify playcounts, are media producers botting up IMDb ratings?

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 3 months ago

Yes, it has been observed that IMDb sometimes get a lot of new "single post users" putting in 10/10 ratings on Disney movies that otherwise scored badly.