earthcurrent wrote:Bah...if you look at a lot of the names on the top 10 list you see the same names cropping up over and over again. If you are in the know, you soon realize that a lot of them all run in the same circles, have the same home cons, etc. In most ways the top 10% list is little more than a list of the "Ol' Boys Club." The disagreement we are seeing as to the legitimacy of the ranking is merely a result of the favoritism amongst certain creators who, as favors, give each other high reviews for past good reviews on their own videos. They do so regardless of the actual quality of the video they are reviewing, as they are seemingly fearful of giving an honest review because they themselves might recieve an honest review in "retaliation".
God forbid that people actually start taking some time and effort to decide if a video really deserves a 10.
This is an interesting conjecture. I suppose you have gone through every single reviewer list for each video on the Top 10% and cross-referenced them to prove that you are correct? Because I think posting those results could prove very eye-opening indeed.
Of course, it could be that people really liked one person's video, so they went and downloaded other videos from the same creator and liked those too, and being the sort of people that like to leave reviews, left favorable reviews for the videos they liked? And then since those videos remained, or moved up into the Top 10%, other people downloaded them figuring they must be pretty good and then THEY too downloaded more videos from the same creator and so on and so forth?
Nah, that's too farfetched. Damn those elitists!