Rings of Power this is a new streaming phenomenon. The Lord of the Rings universe series is making a lot of talking points online and off. But it is within that the disputes are more acute. Especially between those who love the series and those who see it as a sacrilege to Tolkien’s legacy.
And there is no middle ground. As with every controversial premiere, users are using the services review like IMDB and Rotten Tomatoes to spark debate. So much so that scoring tools have already become a way for creators to know if fans are enjoying their new series or not.
But sites review also steel a way to punish shows and movies when they don’t adapt to what the fans mean, which must be a TV series or movie. And users punish content by applying what is known as sight bombardment en masse and with false notes (down or up), distorting the real opinion of users.
Rings of Power, victim of “surveillance bombing”
How else, a series like Rings of Power he was to be expected to suffer bombing reviewso Amazon made a radical decision: to suspend user reviews on IMDB (a service owned by Amazon, by the way) for three days.
According to an Amazon spokesperson, the idea assess whether the user’s feedback comes from a real viewernot from a bot or troll who wants to take over the reviews section or bombing review. Amazon introduced this policy earlier this summerstarting with your reboot from Their own leaguedue to the program’s political stance, and now also applies to Rings of Power.
However, despite Amazon’s efforts to contain the wave of bad reviews about its platform, this does not prevent Rings of Power receives reviews with very low ratings. Both on Rotten Tomatoes and on IMDb, which, as we recall, is owned by Amazon itself, users massively downvote:
While it appears to have a slightly higher score on IMDB, averaging 6.8, it drops to 3.9 on Rotten. Overall, IMDB’s cumulative negative criticism is only increasing. And that it is Amazon that controls the note-taking platform itself.
