{"id":64415,"date":"2022-09-03T01:55:56","date_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:55:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rings-of-power-user-reviews-delayed-on-amazon-in-initiative-to-filter-trolls\/"},"modified":"2022-09-03T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-03T01:55:56","slug":"rings-of-power-user-reviews-delayed-on-amazon-in-initiative-to-filter-trolls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rings-of-power-user-reviews-delayed-on-amazon-in-initiative-to-filter-trolls\/","title":{"rendered":"Rings of Power: User Reviews Delayed on Amazon in Initiative to Filter Trolls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tAmazon has introduced a new weapon in the battle against internet trolls: delays.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tStarting around the time of the launch of the distaff baseball dramedy \u201cA League of Their Own,\u201d which premiered its full first season on Aug.  12, Amazon Prime Video quietly introduced a new 72-hour delay for all user reviews posted to Prime Video, a representative for the streamer confirmed to <em>variety<\/em>.  Each critique is then evaluated to determine whether it&#8217;s genuine or a forgery created by a bot, troll or other breed of digital goblin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tThe practice caught notice after the premiere of the first two episodes of \u201cThe Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power,\u201d Prime Video&#8217;s monumentally scaled fantasy series based on the works of JRR Tolkien.  The series appears to have been review bombed \u2014 when trolls flood intentionally negative reviews for a show or film \u2014 on other sites like Rotten Tomatoes, where it has an 84% rating from professional critics, but a 37% from user-submitted reviews.  \u201cThe Rings of Power\u201d has been fending off trolls for months, especially ones who take issue with the decision to cast actors of color as elves, dwarves, harfoots and other folk of Tolkien&#8217;s fictional Middle-earth. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tAmazon&#8217;s new initiative to review its reviews, however, is designed to weed out ones that are posted in bad faith, deadening their impact.  In the case of \u201cA League of Their Own,\u201d it appears to have worked: To date, the show has an average 4.3 out of 5 star rating on Prime Video, with 80% of users rating the show with five stars and 14% with one star.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n<p>\tWhether Amazon successfully beat back the tide of internet trolls for \u201cThe Rings of Power\u201d will likely be revealed on Sunday.<\/p>\n<h4 style=\"text-align: center\">VIP+ Analysis: What &#8216;LOTR&#8217; Means for Amazon&#8217;s Streaming Hopes<\/h4>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script type=\"text\/plain\" class=\"optanon-category-C0004\">\n  !function(f, b, e, v, n, t, s) {\n    if (f.fbq) return;\n    n = f.fbq = function() {\n      n.callMethod ?\n          n.callMethod.apply(n, arguments) : n.queue.push(arguments);\n    };\n    if (!f._fbq) f._fbq = n;\n    n.push = n;\n    n.loaded = !0;\n    n.version = '2.0';\n    n.queue = [];\n    t = b.createElement(e);\n    t.async = !0;\n    t.src = v;\n    s = b.getElementsByTagName(e)[0];\n    s.parentNode.insertBefore(t, s);\n  }(window, document, 'script',\n      'https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/fbevents.js');\n  fbq('init', '586935388485447');\n  fbq('init', '315552255725686');\n  fbq('track', 'PageView');\n<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has introduced a new weapon in the battle against internet trolls: delays. Starting around the time of the launch of the distaff baseball dramedy \u201cA League of Their Own,\u201d which premiered its full first season on Aug. 12, Amazon Prime Video quietly introduced a new 72-hour delay for all user reviews posted to Prime &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/rings-of-power-user-reviews-delayed-on-amazon-in-initiative-to-filter-trolls\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Rings of Power: User Reviews Delayed on Amazon in Initiative to Filter Trolls<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":66618,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-sets-amazon-prime-viewing-record\/","url_meta":{"origin":64415,"position":0},"title":"&#8216;The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power&#8217; sets Amazon Prime viewing record","date":"September 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"The two-episode premiere of The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power drew 25 million viewers around the world in 24 hours, making it the biggest debut in Prime Video's history, Amazon said in a press release. \"It is somehow fitting that Tolkien's stories \u2014 among the most popular\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Entertainment&quot;","img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":66374,"url":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/amazon-introduced-new-tactics-to-combat-the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-review-bombing\/","url_meta":{"origin":64415,"position":1},"title":"Amazon Introduced New Tactics to Combat The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power Review Bombing","date":"September 5, 2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Review bombing by internet trolls has become a huge problem and has caused sites like Rotten Tomatoes to show user scores for films and movies that are far lower than they should be. 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