For Your Consideration - Top 250 Movies (100K votes minimum)

With more and more movies getting released today and more and more new users appearing on IMDb, isn't it time to update some rules regarding Top 250 Movies? The List claims "To be included on the list, a movie must receive ratings from at least 25000 users." This was fair back in the day, but I would suggest that increasing that number up to 100K votes, would be a lot better. I'm a big pioneer of getting movies more attention, but the Top 250 list that regards movies of ALL TIME, it should be a bit tougher to get into and more memorable. An alternate idea is to increase the list to a Top 1000, but that kind of makes it less special, don't you agree? It's too high of a number. Movies that got released a month ago and have a huge fanbase, already appear on the list very easilly, because 25000 users on IMDb today is not as big of a number as it used to be a decade ago. So Please, Consider... Note: This comment was created from a merged conversation Link : https://community-imdb.sprinklr.com/conversations/imdbcom/for-your-consideration-top-rated-movies-least-votes-100k/6960e4816396e03dbb49b85f Title : For Your Consideration - Top Rated Movies (least votes 100K)

I don't think this is a good idea (although I wouldn't mind very much if the bar were raised to 30,000 or 40,000). In 2012, IMDb increased the number of votes needed to be on the list from 3,000 to 25,000. As a result, 24 titles (almost 10% of the list) were thrown out of the Top 250. The fastest one to get back on the list needed only four days for this, but there were also titles that took years to assemble the needed votes. 

(FWIW, I once made a list of it I updated last in 2018, when two titles still didn't have enough votes: https://www.imdb.com/list/ls079204573/ )

If the number of votes needed for the Top 250 would change to 100,000, I wouldn't be surprised if at least 10 per cent (or much more) of the titles would drop off the list and some would need years to make a comeback.

Apart from that, as you can see on this site: http://top250.info/stats/?9/7477 , the number of titles that get added to the Top 250 is less then 10 per year (5 in 2025, 9 in 2024 (among which a title from 1956 that had finally reached 25,000 votes at that point), 5 in 2023, etc), with about half of them dropping out eventually, so we're not talking enormous numbers here, in my opinion. And as you can see here: http://top250.info/stats/?8/7477 , there are a lot of years with about this number of titles in the Top 250, so it seems relatively balanced to me.