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It's probably inherent to any site that allows you to follow individuals. For Twitter that's not much of a problem because most people know better than to rely
by bscphil 4y ago
It's probably inherent to any site that allows you to follow individuals. For Twitter that's not much of a problem because most people know better than to rely on Twitter for life advice or product reviews. Letterboxd, on the other hand, manifests exactly the problem you're talking about, and the whole point of the site is to assign purported ratings to film and TV shows.
Reddit and IMDb are mostly immune. Which is not to say that they're immune to all problems (astroturfing, brigading, personal biases, etc.).
- Semaphor 4y agoReddit seems to try and change that, though? I don’t really follow what development happens on new reddit, but it seems more user-oriented?
- Gigachad 4y agoThey have been _trying_ to make it more user oriented for a while but even in the new design, users aren't really that important or recognized any more than they always have. The main change is you can post posts to your profile rather than a particular subreddit. But that's not a big feature. Back in the day people used to just create a subreddit of their username.