IMDB's CEO, who founded the site 35 years ago, is stepping down

I believe there was a lot of interest that wanted to contain user voices as much as possible.

Some say there would be something like a professional critic. For literature that certainly is true since you can only draw comparisons by being familiar with a broad selection of media.

But on the other hand, one that is sadly more relevant these days, such critics aren't necessarily independent and can more easily be manipulated by the usual media power players or other interests.

Surprisingly IMDB still was very useful at first, despite being bought by Amazon pretty early. But they more and more removed user content and now their reviews are as authentic as biting on a piece of plastic.

IMDB got less relevant, rotten tomatoes got more popular. Now the mistakes are repeated and we hopefully get a more free platform again soon. I really like the old style "every user has equal weight" approach. I accept that there is brigading and spam attacks that can manipulate a score. That is information as well and it is easy to see the patterns and I probably watch something that is a polarizing 5/10.