You killed the most helpful, useful account on this site:
https://www.criticker.com/profile/avgcrtckr/
Are you happy, now?
I hate you all:))
List of aggregate users / bots
- Ramy
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- Joined: Sat Aug 08, 2015 5:46 pm
Re: List of aggregate users / bots
We did it!!!!!ehk2 wrote: ↑Tue Aug 24, 2021 4:41 pmYou killed the most helpful, useful account on this site:
https://www.criticker.com/profile/avgcrtckr/
Are you happy, now?
I hate you all:))
- CosmicMonkey
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- Joined: Sun Apr 05, 2009 6:52 pm
Re: List of aggregate users / bots
The switch from tiers to percentiles probably had a lot to with it. All of a sudden the entire profile is obsolete. Maybe somebody will start over with the new system.
I really wish the mods would just give us an option to filter things by average percentile. (preferably one's that adjusted to account for standard deviation and sample size)
I really wish the mods would just give us an option to filter things by average percentile. (preferably one's that adjusted to account for standard deviation and sample size)
- BadCosmonaut
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Re: List of aggregate users / bots
In October, I removed from the list the account IMDBbbbb since the account has been deleted. Thank you kritikos for letting me know!
Also, I added a new account to the list today: IGNMovies. If you compare this account's ratings to the actual site IGNMovies, you may notice some of the ratings on here don't precisely match up with the main score for the movie on IGNMovies. If you click into the actual review on IGNMovies, you'll see a line somewhere that says "Score: x out of 10". That's where it's pulling from (for at least some of its ratings on Criticker, if not all of them).
Also, I added a new account to the list today: IGNMovies. If you compare this account's ratings to the actual site IGNMovies, you may notice some of the ratings on here don't precisely match up with the main score for the movie on IGNMovies. If you click into the actual review on IGNMovies, you'll see a line somewhere that says "Score: x out of 10". That's where it's pulling from (for at least some of its ratings on Criticker, if not all of them).
- BadCosmonaut
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Re: List of aggregate users / bots
edit: see next post below this one for correct/updated info.
Original/outdated text of this post:
Original/outdated text of this post:
Spoiler!
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- BadCosmonaut
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Re: List of aggregate users / bots
Old info:
New info:
Update from 2022 November 8: kritikos let me know (a couple months ago) that the above URLs have all been reverted back to their original URLs, so today I updated the OP once again to reflect the accurate URLs. Thanks kritikos!
Spoiler!
Update from 2022 November 8: kritikos let me know (a couple months ago) that the above URLs have all been reverted back to their original URLs, so today I updated the OP once again to reflect the accurate URLs. Thanks kritikos!
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Re: List of aggregate users / bots
funny that my top two tcis were mubivotes and rym
Re: List of aggregate users / bots
Wow, I was about to come post an epic rant about these composite/aggretate accounts messing everything up but you guys have been all over it for years! And yet they still aren't ignored by default
I like them in theory - I mean, if I match them better than other users surely I should trust them - but there are so many practical problems
* I don't trust IMDB ratings to begin with; that's why I'm here!
* Many of the aggregate accounts are highly correlated so they are effectively joining forces to manipulate the vote
* They tend to spread astroturfed ratings for unknown shows - pretty sure I don't want to know the IMDB rating when only 10 people have rated it over there...
Blah blah blah, I've learned my lesson, time to go block some accounts.
I like them in theory - I mean, if I match them better than other users surely I should trust them - but there are so many practical problems
* I don't trust IMDB ratings to begin with; that's why I'm here!
* Many of the aggregate accounts are highly correlated so they are effectively joining forces to manipulate the vote
* They tend to spread astroturfed ratings for unknown shows - pretty sure I don't want to know the IMDB rating when only 10 people have rated it over there...
Blah blah blah, I've learned my lesson, time to go block some accounts.
- BadCosmonaut
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Re: List of aggregate users / bots
2023 June 11 update:
Added a new account: EM-ED. This account is an aggregate that averages ratings from 3 different websites. I'm not sure which 3 websites. Thanks to EM-ED for sharing this info!
I also updated a username that has been changed: anidb to anidb-rt. I did not have to re-block this person. My block list was updated automatically whenever this name change occured, so probably no action is needed on your part for this one.
Added a new account: EM-ED. This account is an aggregate that averages ratings from 3 different websites. I'm not sure which 3 websites. Thanks to EM-ED for sharing this info!
I also updated a username that has been changed: anidb to anidb-rt. I did not have to re-block this person. My block list was updated automatically whenever this name change occured, so probably no action is needed on your part for this one.
- Victoriouz
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