Starmeter was merged with ranking. Even if you were an amateur actor/actress on there, like I was, and had some credits; you could see your rank. Starmeter was the top of the top, like top 10. These would rank the celebrities in terms of publicity and how often (IMDb said) their profiles were clicked on (I highly doubt it was just that. I am sure there was some back end pay that sweetened the deal and put one actor/actress over another actor/actress in terms of being publicized).
For this website, it would probably be based on top fan, however, I think it would get out of hand because just what exactly would it be based on? There were ideas about posts and messages being upvoted, so I guess it could be on that.
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FilmFan1983 (128)
8 years ago
Perhaps there is a way to just factor in total number of posts per day or week. I think it would create more discussion because for someone who may not have started out with the intent of starting or continuing a discussion, those lists can help them end up on a movie or actor page. I see IMDb also ranks a movie's popularity on the front page. Of course, it'll favor current films or upcoming releases, but it'll definitely help.
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arvin g borkar (2854)
8 years ago
But then wouldn't people just troll in trying to get a certain # of posts in? It would not exactly regulate against posts that had substance vs. posts that are just one worded or typed up to fulfill that requirement.
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FilmFan1983 (128)
8 years ago
Hopefully, that will work itself out in time as necessary tools are put in place such as having reported or flagged posts not factoring into the data. But if that's someone's primary motivation to post, it shouldn't be a problem provided they have something to say.
I also had an idea of creating a list of most discussed instead of or in addition to most popular, which would principally factor in the length of threads. On imdb, it was typical for longer threads to have the most interesting discussion. These threads usually stayed at the top while inane posts quickly got buried. It's also bad netiquette to continually bump the same thread, which would inspire people to instead come up with really interesting threads and responses.
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