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Re: Megacorporation deletes negative reviews about its IP by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/07/2022, 7:43am PDT
Mysterio wrote:

Title: Re: Amazon suspending numeric reviews for "Rings of Power."
... Amazon’s mega-budget fantasy series “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power” ... being ‘review bombed’ with Amazon itself outright suspending reviews on its platform.
An Amazon source tells THR that reviews are being held 72 hours to help weed out trolls and to ensure each review is legitimate.
Maybe we don't need to let random people drop random numbers anywhere.

If people who didn't see the film are posting reviews - even if correct - it is not reasonable to have their reviews carried as if legitimate. I'll give you an example. The all-female remake of Ghostbusters is generally considered very bad amd/or terrible, not because it was an all-female cast in the lead roles - but because it wasn't funny, or they weren't funny.) Since I have never seen the film, it would not be appropriate or honest of me to pan the film in a posted review because other people said it was bad. Similarly, if Amazon is getting troll reviews - people who never saw the film giving reviews - and throttling spam comments is a perfectly legitimate response.
blackwater wrote:

noooooo you can’t just rate an Amazon Originals a 0
that’s misinfornation

It could be that the people who designed the 1-5 star system never imagined there could be a movie that would deserve a less than 1 rating. These people never saw (1) Fargo, (2) Glen Garry Glenn Ross, or (3) Murder on the Orient Express , all films I hated and on a scale of 1 - 5, I'd rate them 0 or -1, they were that bad. But I did see all of them.

Most organizations have a way to exclude spam. It doesn't matter if it is your product that is being reviewed, if the comments are invalid, phony, or spam, you have every right to remove them. And if you don't like Amazon doing this, you have every right to shop elsewhere, encourage others to boycott them, picket their facilities, and/or push for legislation to curtail some of their practices you consider inappropriate, such as their giving their own products better placement, using data of sellers who use their platform to design cheaper competing products, and/or charging high prices for order processing..
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Paul, I need your input on the "Bombadil problem" by blackwater 08/02/2015, 1:16am PDT NEW
    Re: Paul, I need your input on the "Bombadil problem" by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 08/13/2015, 8:05am PDT NEW
        You should read the Silmarillion some time. NT by blackwater 08/13/2015, 11:16pm PDT NEW
    Amazon suspending numeric reviews for "Rings of Power." by Mysterio 09/02/2022, 9:26pm PDT NEW
        Megacorporation deletes negative reviews about its IP by blackwater 09/03/2022, 12:13pm PDT NEW
            Re: Megacorporation deletes negative reviews about its IP by Commander Tansin A. Darcos 09/07/2022, 7:43am PDT NEW
                Fargo and Glengarry are two of the greatest movies ever made. by pinback 09/07/2022, 8:00am PDT NEW
 
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