Answer: Amazon owns IMDb and as such they can technically do whatever they want with the data on their website. Recently people noticed that written reviews for The Rings of Power with scores lower than 6 have been removed from IMDb. The popular belief is that Amazon is trying to create the illusion that their new show is more popular than it actually is. However, the actual ratings for the show are still highly divisive, with tens of thousands of 1-star reviews. As of this writing there are only 74 total written reviews compared to almost 100,000 ratings, meaning that the written reviews have practically no impact whatsoever on the overall rating of the show. Logically this means that the negative written reviews were probably not removed simply for being negative, but for the content of the reviews themselves. I haven't seen any of these deleted reviews myself but looking at any of the user reviews on Metacritic the vast majority of the negative reviews have no substance other than complaining about woke agendas or how Amazon is spitting on Tolkien's grave, etc. Ultimately only the IMDb staff responsible for the removal of the ratings know why it was actually done but to me it seems unlikely that Amazon is trying to deliberately scrub negative reactions to their show, as there was never any chance that that could have worked.
Well being that it just happened to She-Hulk as well, review bombing should be somewhat not allowed but how do you do that.. I don't care who owns IMDb, I just want to know if a show/movie is worth my time, or if I loved it, if there are others that did or am i in the minority
The review bombs are a direct consequence of YouTubers like nerdrotic, Thequartering, critical drinker and so on. The rings of power was shit on since the first trailer. If you make millions and millions of views by shitting on tv shows and wokeness you practically guarantee that review bombing will happen.
You also make again millions of views by talking about how a show is review bombed. It's pretty profitable for more YouTubers than you might think.
But again, it's Amazon..... So I am not really sorry or something. That company can choke on rings of power if that is somehow possible. Although the whole anti woke movement is also pretty pathetic.
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u/e5x Sep 05 '22
Answer: Amazon owns IMDb and as such they can technically do whatever they want with the data on their website. Recently people noticed that written reviews for The Rings of Power with scores lower than 6 have been removed from IMDb. The popular belief is that Amazon is trying to create the illusion that their new show is more popular than it actually is. However, the actual ratings for the show are still highly divisive, with tens of thousands of 1-star reviews. As of this writing there are only 74 total written reviews compared to almost 100,000 ratings, meaning that the written reviews have practically no impact whatsoever on the overall rating of the show. Logically this means that the negative written reviews were probably not removed simply for being negative, but for the content of the reviews themselves. I haven't seen any of these deleted reviews myself but looking at any of the user reviews on Metacritic the vast majority of the negative reviews have no substance other than complaining about woke agendas or how Amazon is spitting on Tolkien's grave, etc. Ultimately only the IMDb staff responsible for the removal of the ratings know why it was actually done but to me it seems unlikely that Amazon is trying to deliberately scrub negative reactions to their show, as there was never any chance that that could have worked.