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Rotten Tomatoes Bans User Reviews and Comments Before a Film's Theatrical Release To Counter Online Trolls (rottentomatoes.com)
Rotten Tomatoes is finally addressing its troll problem. The review aggregation website has unveiled a new initiative to "modernize its audience rating system through a series of product enhancements," -- the first of which includes banning user reviews and comments prior to a movie's theatrical release. Getting rid of pre-release user reviews means internet trolls will not be able to flood film pages with negative scores before a movie comes out. As we saw earlier this week, Captain Marvel was at the receiving end of what appeared to be a targeted campaign to lower the upcoming movie's audience rating. Rotten Tomatoes is not banning user reviews entirely. It says it will offer this functionality to users once the movie has hit the theaters.
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Further reading on Rotten Tomatoes: Movie Studios Are Blaming Rotten Tomatoes For Killing Movies No One Wants To See
Hollywood Producer Blames Rotten Tomatoes For Convincing People Not To See His Movie
Rotten Tomatoes Scores Don't Correlate To Box Office Success or Woes, Research Shows
DC Fans Angry Over Rotten Tomatoes 'Justice League' Ratings
Why Don't We Care About The Rotten Tomatoes Scores Of TV Shows?
Real Moviegoers Don't Care About Rotten Tomatoes.
For such big strong alpha males you guys sure do shit your diapers a lot.
When I checked Rotten Tomatoes last week, I saw no bad reviews.
I did see that about 29% of people planned to see the movie. That isn't a review or a rating.
What they did was censor stats about how many people clicked that they wanted to see the movie, not review.
And it was because once again because white men were told we are evil and not wanted, so a lot clicked on the not-wanting-to-watch option.
Was /. always this moronic or is it just nostalgic memories clouding my view?
They were leaving reviews, read the articles out there instead of assuming. The "want to see" rating was also happening and depending when you looked at the page it had both "want to see" ratings and reviews, then just one, and now none as they've been changing it in response to the concerted attempts of people to yell at something they haven't seen and already hate. Their choice, but not really what the site was looking for with their system. It was supposed to judge interest, not group hate.
They were rating a mainstream promoted movie that dares not to present them with what they have come to expect as their right to be the primary targeted demographic for these types of movies. They weren't out there going through movies rating them and just happened to come across this one. They were grouping together and rating a movie as a reaction to perceived attacks on their god given right to be the center of attention.
The disingenuous screaming about censorship and false flag trolling is toxic in a way that belies the real intent of these users going out of their way on specific films to downvote them in a bandwagon onslaught that makes them feel the pitchforks and torches are winning. Complaining about SJW overstepping their turf of telling people what to do and what to like. It's a thin veil of hatred and technicality baiting that they rely on to bolster an archaic trend of hating the new and claiming not to be stuck in the past where things (for them) were just fine, if not better, maybe even great. So why not drag down someone else and tear and break and yell into the void, anywhere people can be made to recognize the masses of grumbling, shrinking, standards that have had it all in their favor for so long that it's just how it should be. Just for them only. And if it's not for them then they will go out of their way to tell you. All while complaining about how much the other minorities are pushing the vegan lifestyle, the gay agenda, and the social justice censorship upon them at every chance. Hypocrites love company.