I am not sure if I, as a non-author, should allow myself to write in this forum but as authors are probably the best source of the info I'm going to do it.
Have you noticed a change in the scoring habits of the readers over the years? Because I am not finding new stories that interest me at present, I have been re-reading a number of stories that I read some time ago. In almost all cases I have wanted to increase the score I originally gave by one or two points.
Which led me to wonder if authors had noticed if it was easier or more difficult to score points now as opposed to 10 years ago?