Mostly agree, but I wouldn't call it a dark pattern. The problem is you are asking for two things. Do you want popular recommendations? Or do you want critic

Mostly agree, but I wouldn't call it a dark pattern. The problem is you are asking for two things. Do you want popular recommendations? Or do you want critical reviews? Those are very different and very hard to house together. This is why I mostly view the problem as being with user provided ratings. They basically fall into the same realm as all big data. Tons of noise, little signal, and easy to misinterpret.