{"id":1633724,"date":"2022-09-06T08:18:41","date_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:18:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633724"},"modified":"2022-09-06T08:19:02","modified_gmt":"2022-09-06T12:19:02","slug":"amazon-shuts-off-user-reviews-to-blunt-rings-of-power-backlash","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/amazon-shuts-off-user-reviews-to-blunt-rings-of-power-backlash\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon Shuts Off User Reviews To Blunt &#8220;Rings Of Power&#8221; Backlash"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Famazon-shuts-off-user-reviews-to-blunt-rings-of-power-backlash%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1633724&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p class=\"subheading\">Amazon has temporarily shut off user reviews for <em>The Rings of Power<\/em> on Prime Video, claiming to take this action so it can filter out \u201ctrolls\u201d leaving negative comments about the new series.<\/p>\n<p>The tech giant is making it clear: don\u2019t ask questions, don\u2019t voice complaints, just consume their content, and be excited about it.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"D-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B1\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"gmxrevmore\" class=\"H\"><\/figure>\n[embedded content]\n<p>Amazon Prime Video quietly introduced a 72-hour delay for all user reviews posted to Prime Video so that each critique can be evaluated and approved for posting, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/variety.com\/2022\/tv\/news\/rings-of-power-reviews-delayed-amazon-prime-video-1235358724\/\">report<\/a> by <em>Variety.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The purpose for doing this, the company says, is to determine whether or not the review is genuine or if it is a comment coming from what is known as a \u201cbot.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"M-ROS-B2\" class=\"a8d\"><\/figure>\n<p>Others, however, might look at this explanation with suspicion, as it can appear that Amazon is using delays as a means for filtering out negative reviews or complaints about the new <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/entertainment\/2022\/08\/17\/amazons-lord-of-the-rings-prequel-series-goes-woke-with-elves-of-color\/\">woke<\/a> series.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmazon\u2019s new initiative to review its reviews,\u201d <em>Variety<\/em> reports, \u201cis designed to weed out ones that are posted in bad faith, deadening their impact.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The report went on to claim that \u201cthe series appears\u00a0to have been review bombed \u2014 when trolls flood intentionally negative reviews for a show or film \u2014 on other sites like Rotten Tomatoes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>On the\u00a0leftist film and television review-aggregation website Rotten Tomatoes, reviews are separated into two categories: Tomatometer, a score that represents\u00a0the vast majority of professional movie critics, and\u00a0Audience Score, which refers to members of the general viewing audience.<\/p>\n<p>On Rotten\u00a0Tomatoes,\u00a0<em>The Rings of Power<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/tv\/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power\">received<\/a> an 84 percent rating from the professional critics and a 39 percent rating from user-submitted reviews.<\/p>\n<p>Amazon\u2019s retail ecosystem relies heavily on user reviews, so it was previously unthinkable for the tech giant to follow in the footsteps of Netflix, which abandoned its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/tech\/2018\/08\/20\/netflix-ditches-user-reviews-a-year-after-dumping-star-ratings\/\">user reviews feature<\/a> entirely after an Amy Schumer special was widely panned by viewers. However, this recent move to protect\u00a0<em>The Rings of Power <\/em>opens the door for Amazon to take just as drastic of a move to silence its own customers.<\/p>\n<p><em>You can<\/em><em>\u00a0follow Alana\u00a0Mastrangelo on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Facebook<\/a>\u00a0and Twitter at\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ARmastrangelo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">@ARmastrangelo<\/a>, and on\u00a0<a class=\"x5l\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/alanamastrangelo\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener external\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon has temporarily shut off user reviews for The Rings of Power on Prime Video, claiming to take this action so it can filter out \u201ctrolls\u201d leaving negative comments about<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1633726,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1633724","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1633724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1633724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1633726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1633724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1633724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1633724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}