GameFAQs Nuking Negative Reader Reviews?

Posted by Zonk on Thursday April 14, 2005 @05:16PM from the stranger-things-have-happened dept.

jvm writes "Are negative reader reviews of the Sony PlayStation Portable (like this one) being yanked from GameFAQs? Some have certainly been removed, and Kyle Orland of the Video Game Ombudsman investigates: one of the reviews which was taken down, an interview with the author of the review, and a subsequent anonymous email purportedly by the person who took the review down. The review's author then responds that the justifications are questionable. Accompanying this is a discussion of the handling of reader-submitted reviews." Update: 04/16 04:53 GMT by Z : Many thanks to CJayC for setting the record straight in the comments below.

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That's like IMDB by QuantumG · 2005-04-14 17:20 · Score: 4, Interesting

Any comment that is negative of the film is dropped. The same appears to go for books and games on Amazon.

It's pretty obvious too, I mean the number of positive reviews for Jean-Claude Van Damme can be counted on zero hands and yet imdb always appears to have at least 10 people saying his latest flop was the greatest movie ever.

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CNET Ownership by poppen_fresh · 2005-04-14 17:21 · Score: 5, Interesting

A few years ago, when gamefaqs announced they were acquired by CNET and later gamespot, I was worried they might begin having "influence" over the site.
Seems like it's starting to happen.