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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Comments

Re:"Trolls".

[Anonymous Coward]

For such big strong alpha males you guys sure do shit your diapers a lot.

What reviews?

[dasunt]

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.

Fake news and censorship, it is all so tiresome

[Rasatsu]

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?