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Top 250 ratings formula
I think it should be clear that the current algorithm or formula that determines the weighted IMDb rating for the Top 250 movies is flawed. I have watched most of the movies from the official Top 250 lists from the past 25 years and there are movies that get ranked high due to high popularity with a narrow viewer group, be it gamers (Demon Slayer movies) or national groups (Turkish or Indian) that have many voters. Such films lack the wider general appeal that I think should be a criteria for appearance in the IMDb Top 250. I think the formula should take into account votes in such a way that one or a few countries alone cannot determine a ranking. Maybe a ranking should be calculated using a balanced weighting based on votes from all continents. I think IMDb should look into this to safeguard the legitimacy of the Top 250.
NYVKE
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1 month ago
Those Asian cartoon based movies actually have a massive international audience, across the world and various age groups. (Personally I have no interest in such things, but.... )
You do have a point re: the Indian and especially Turkish films.
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bjornhakansson
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As an example we can take the Turkish movie The Chaos Class failed the class that currently ranks #148 on the IMDb Top 250 with a weighted score of 8.5 based on 29,202 votes. Of the total votes more than 20,000 votes are from Turkish voters that gave the film an average of 9.0, while 1,520 US voters gave it an 6.6 in average, 616 UK voters a 6.9 and 255 Dutch voters a 6.7 in average. The Turkish voters outnumber the combined US and UK voters with almost ten to one, and then I don't take into account Turkish voters who live in the US or UK that may have influenced their average. These kind of regional/cultural upvoting is disastrous for the legitimacy of the Top 250 chart. Maybe the country of origin should never be allowed to count for more than 25% of the voting weight? The Chaos Class movie ranks higher than e.g. The Deer Hunter on place 207 that has an almost equal score across several countries. I hope IMDb will look into this.
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