Netflix Deletes All User Reviews (engadget.com)

Posted by BeauHD on Sunday August 19, 2018 @08:20AM from the gone-with-the-wind dept.

Netflix has removed all user reviews from its site, just like they said they would in early July. Here's what Netflix now has to say about posting reviews on its site: "Netflix customers were able to leave reviews on Netflix.com until mid-2018, when reviews were removed due to declining use. To learn how Netflix suggests TV shows and movies we think you'll love, visit our Ratings & Recommendations article." Engadget reports: Netflix probably had reasons other than the section's decline in use, as well. For instance, it had to deal with issues like "review bombing" by trolls hoping to bring down a show's rating back when it used stars instead of the thumbs up-down system. Netflix might have decided that reviews don't lead to enough views to warrant spending resources on policing them. It has a "percentage match" system that suggests titles based on previous ones you've watched, after all, so there's probably very little incentive for the platform to keep the reviews section running.

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Re:Trolling by ooloorie · 2018-08-19 10:20 · Score: 0, Offtopic

It's probably due to trolling. IMDB is the same, certain movies are heavily trolled, e.g. Black Panther.
Has it occurred to you that Black Panther and movies like it might simply be viewed as a bad movie by a large part of the population and hence receive highly critical reviews from many people?