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> Each critique is then evaluated to determine whether it’s genuine or a forgery created by a bot, troll or other breed of digital goblin. In general, this sou

> Each critique is then evaluated to determine whether it’s genuine or a forgery created by a bot, troll or other breed of digital goblin. In general, this sounds like a good idea to me. There are a lot of reviews that aren't in good faith, or aren't useful because they're something like "0/10 this sucks" or "10/10 lol", and I don't really see those as valuable — in fact, the opposite. However, the evaluation of what reviews are and aren't worth keeping would have to be done by an independent third party, not the company that produced the show, and who has an obvious conflict of interest. Amazon would never do something like that, which is why as a rule I would keep in mind that reviews for Amazon products on Amazon platforms are not reliable (to the extent that any crowd-sourced reviews are reliable, which is a different conversation).

Balgair 4y ago
>> ... by a bot, troll or other breed of digital goblin. Ok, the goblin bit is cute though.
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wyre 4y ago
I find it very interesting that Amazon, after years of criticism for not doing anything regarding sellers gaming reviews, pauses reviews on the product they spent a billion dollars on.
- snowwrestler 4y ago
  They actually instituted it earlier, but it's just being noticed/discussed now in the context of the Rings show.
  - effingwewt 4y ago
    Yea, they alsp began shitting on Tolkien fans preemptively by saying if ypi don't like it you're against diversity, etc. It's no accident they enacted this shortly before releasing such a steaming pile of IP monetization. Again- this is Amazon, who have shown they have no regard for laws, or their customers, and have a strained relationship with the truth to say the very least. I'd bet dollars to donuts no one knew about this policy because it was never enforced until now.
  - dmix 4y ago
    The first instituted a few months ago... for another Amazon show.
stingraycharles 4y ago
Add to this the fact that they recently deleted all reviews on this show with a rating lower than 6 from IMDB, which confirms for me that they are not to be trusted to be subjective about this at all. I wonder what the decision process about this is like. It’s as if this show is “too big to fail”, and management is scrambling to make it appear a success.
- prox 4y ago
  It’s at 39% at Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch! I love fantasy but this series has me pretty indifferent.
  - pverghese 4y ago
    That's audience score which is being review bombed just like the IMDb ratings. So i wouldn't pay much attention to that
    - prox 4y ago
      The critics have it around 80%, so the truth is in the middle?
      - effingwewt 4y ago
        I'd say not. The problem is that many 'critics' are just randoms like you and I. 'critics' giving it 8/9/10 out of 10 aren't being truthful. I love how people are all 'you can't rate a show that just came out!' but critics have done just that as well. Reading the RT 'critics'[1] we find there are a total of three critics (none of them 'top critics'. We have a 7/10, a 3.5/5 and a fresh score. Somehow that translates to an 84% score at the moment. Why are bullshit high reviews not considered 'positive review bombing'? [1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power/s01/reviews https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_...
      - pverghese 4y ago
        Possibly yes. The only way to find out is time. Because review bombers tend to stop after the first few days. So the future reviews will tend to be more reliable than the early reviews
readbeard 4y ago
I would like to see the criteria they are using to filter reviews. Are they removing disingenuous good reviews with equal force? Are they removing genuine, sincere, and insightful bad reviews?
redox99 4y ago
> or "10/10 lol" Oh don't worry. They are only removing the negative reviews.

Balgair 4y ago

>> ... by a bot, troll or other breed of digital goblin. Ok, the goblin bit is cute though.

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wyre 4y ago

I find it very interesting that Amazon, after years of criticism for not doing anything regarding sellers gaming reviews, pauses reviews on the product they spent a billion dollars on.

snowwrestler 4y ago
They actually instituted it earlier, but it's just being noticed/discussed now in the context of the Rings show.
- effingwewt 4y ago
  Yea, they alsp began shitting on Tolkien fans preemptively by saying if ypi don't like it you're against diversity, etc. It's no accident they enacted this shortly before releasing such a steaming pile of IP monetization. Again- this is Amazon, who have shown they have no regard for laws, or their customers, and have a strained relationship with the truth to say the very least. I'd bet dollars to donuts no one knew about this policy because it was never enforced until now.
- dmix 4y ago
  The first instituted a few months ago... for another Amazon show.

stingraycharles 4y ago

Add to this the fact that they recently deleted all reviews on this show with a rating lower than 6 from IMDB, which confirms for me that they are not to be trusted to be subjective about this at all. I wonder what the decision process about this is like. It’s as if this show is “too big to fail”, and management is scrambling to make it appear a success.

prox 4y ago
It’s at 39% at Rotten Tomatoes. Ouch! I love fantasy but this series has me pretty indifferent.
- pverghese 4y ago
  That's audience score which is being review bombed just like the IMDb ratings. So i wouldn't pay much attention to that
  - prox 4y ago
    The critics have it around 80%, so the truth is in the middle?
    - effingwewt 4y ago
      I'd say not. The problem is that many 'critics' are just randoms like you and I. 'critics' giving it 8/9/10 out of 10 aren't being truthful. I love how people are all 'you can't rate a show that just came out!' but critics have done just that as well. Reading the RT 'critics'[1] we find there are a total of three critics (none of them 'top critics'. We have a 7/10, a 3.5/5 and a fresh score. Somehow that translates to an 84% score at the moment. Why are bullshit high reviews not considered 'positive review bombing'? [1] https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power/s01/reviews https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_...
    - pverghese 4y ago
      Possibly yes. The only way to find out is time. Because review bombers tend to stop after the first few days. So the future reviews will tend to be more reliable than the early reviews

readbeard 4y ago

I would like to see the criteria they are using to filter reviews. Are they removing disingenuous good reviews with equal force? Are they removing genuine, sincere, and insightful bad reviews?

redox99 4y ago

> or "10/10 lol" Oh don't worry. They are only removing the negative reviews.