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Who is watching this?! (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 5 months ago (5 children)

PSA: The top 10 lists are 100% bought and paid for, or pushed by the streaming service in question.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 5 months ago (1 children)

You know I've worked on these sorts of bullshit features (under protest) as a developer (special sorting algorithms that bump up the score of monetized entries over organic (aka real) ones) and somehow I never stopped to think that everyone was likely doing the same.

Naivety, I guess

[–] [email protected] 7 points 5 months ago

Something like this?

SELECT *
FROM content
ORDER BY (views + bribe) DESC;

[–] [email protected] 10 points 5 months ago

Absolutely. Ever since shitflix removed the star ratings and reviews that were done by real people, I stopped believing any of that "top list" bullshit.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

'Top 10 highest Netflix bribes'.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

oh my how scandalous

[–] [email protected] 2 points 5 months ago

The new payola... payolix?