Who is watching this?!(lemmy.world)

posted 1 month ago

The Picard Maneuver@lemmy.world

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Lucidlethargy@sh.itjust.works

37 points

1 month ago

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

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grrgyle@slrpnk.net

11 points

1 month ago

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

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Trailblazing Braille Taser@lemmy.dbzer0.com

7 points

1 month ago

Something like this?

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

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penquin@lemm.ee

10 points

1 month 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.

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