Talk:Metacritic

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"Metacritic also gives bias to the reviews of magazines such as Rolling Stone, and hence reviews from these publications have a marginally greater influence on the average." I don't get that: the system is suppossed to be based on an average score from all the reviews, without favors for certain magazines or reviewers. --Joanberenguer 13:31, 1 May 2006 (UTC)

Metacritic does indeed weight its scores. The New York Times is obviously going to get more weight than the Podunk Review. -- Jason Jones 12:10, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

It's not patently "obvious" that the reviews would be weighted, hence it's worth noting in the article. Pimlottc 14:00, 10 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] About Metascore | emphasis added by me

The METASCORE is considered a weighted average because we assign more
significance, or weight, to some critics and publications than we do
to others, based on the overall stature and quality of those critics
and publications. In addition, for music and movies, we also normalize
the resulting scores (akin to "grading on a curve" in college), which
prevents scores from clumping together.

Rhe br 15:35, 1 July 2006 (UTC)

For the last two days, metacritic seems to be down? Are they still in business?

[edit] Redirect

I redirected the Metascore page here. The article had no useful information, and it was covered adequately here already. Stu ^{’Bout ye!} 09:27, 8 May 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Why does this page exist?

The info is just a copy of what you can (easily) view on the Metacritic page... Sontra 20:36, 30 March 2007 (UTC)