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I've noticed this phenomenon in many systems. People glom onto the only entity bothering to do benchmarks/reviews/ratings/whatever, or at least the only popular one, even if the system is totally bogus. Because where else are you gonna go?
In this case I think rotten tomatoes has done a reasonable job of pleasing a lot of people. Separating out audience and critics allows producers to point to their well received movies, regular people can know if they will enjoy it, people who love controversial movies can accuse others of review bombing... everyone gets to have their own version of events and rotten tomatoes gets to be the source everyone points to.
Still, they should improve the ratings algorithm.
It would be a benefit to the audience and critics, just not a benefit to the company or movie studios I guess.
I don't get any of this, really. MetaCritic and IMDB are also huge, and use alternate weighting systems, I believe. You can also just google the movie and underneath the 'big three reviewers,' there'll be a bunch more quality review sites, like NYT, The Guardian, Ebert's site and so forth.
So for anyone who wants to get a spectrum of opinions, it's really not that hard. Not unlike how one should get reliable news.