IMDB deleted every single negative review on LotR (over 300+ reviews are removed) leaving only the positive reviews

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[–]Tarrock 8 insightful - 3 fun8 insightful - 2 fun9 insightful - 3 fun -  (1 child)

IMDB is owned by Amazon.

[–]Dragonerne 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

LOL, that explains the high rating on imdb

[–]quantum-step 5 insightful - 5 fun5 insightful - 4 fun6 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Oh, that's never ever happened before. Ever!

[–]bystraclover 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (1 child)

At this point, I would tell y'all that TMDB > IMDB.

[–]filbs111 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Nice. It even has discussion boards.

[–]FozzieBear 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

9gag want me to turn off adblocker, which I won't, especially for fucking 9gag.

Anyhow, more info: 2773+ 1/10 IMDB votes were obviously suspicious:

https://www.reddit.com/r/lotr/comments/x42h6n/wherever_you_like_the_show_or_hate_it_this_is/

I think Amazon owns IMDB and will control review numbers at Amazon and IMDB, which I naturally don't support. But the 65% 1/10 or 10/10 IMDB votes don't make sense for Rings of Power, which is a decent or OK series at the moment.

[–]TaseAFeminist4Jesus 2 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 3 fun3 insightful - 4 fun -  (0 children)

9gag want me to turn off adblocker, which I won't, especially for fucking 9gag.

tips fedora

[–]puppy528 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

That seems like a rational way to give an honest, accurate view of the things on your site, and users' opinions of them. It's just like how mom would throw all the food out of the fridge if I didn't praise her cooking enough. I could always just go elsewhere for food, since I clearly hated eating so much.

[–]sproketboy 3 insightful - 2 fun3 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Still shit. Doesn't matter.

[–][deleted] 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

One of the most pointless tv shows of all time. Long, boring, unintersting but pretty to look at.

Pretty accurate, but Tolkien books aren't exactly fast paced. Dude wrote dictionaries for a living and it shows. I'm enjoying it personally.

[–]UcDat 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I really hated the first ep but the second one was good enough to rope me into watching the next...

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    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    I like the show

    Have an upvote you didn't have to give yourself.

    C. Tolkein's estate - Christopher's wife Baillie Tolkien and his nephew Michael George Tolkien

    I don't really know how I feel about it now, but in the past I have been annoyed at his estate for milking it for profit. I feel like they should be public domain works now, but on the other hand, that just means Amazon would have profited off Tolkeins work with no renumeration to the parents.

    [–][deleted] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    The bigger problem imho is that we have two generations growing up right now not able to put any review into a realistic context regarding the platform they read it on.

    They are used to scrolling information so fast that they seldom can give information any consideration they surely need nowadays.

    Which begs the question of the point of this behavior in the first place.

    [–]HiddenFox 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    There is always Metacritic.

    https://www.metacritic.com/tv/the-lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power

    [–]IkeConn 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

    What did they do? Queer it up like everything else these days.

    [–]Maggotus 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

    So far there is very little wrong with it other than being a little slow off the start which is normal for most.