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"Verified" audience scores
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Do they not have any protection against fake reviews after all this time?

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[–] YoFrodo@lemmy.world 164 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

You think maybe the guy known for trying to cheat voting systems did a little vote cheating?

[–] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 68 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (2 children)

I'm certainly sensing a theme to these reviews

[–] Gullible@sh.itjust.works 33 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago)

Such a pleasure to see real class return to the White House

Pov from their screen

[–] sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 weeks ago

My headcanon is that they trained the LLM/bot that made these on Trump's tweets.

[–] LordMayor@piefed.social 63 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

I think the “verified audience” are people who bought tickets through Fandango. So, either they were the kind of people who wanted to see and like it or they bought tickets but didn’t actually go and are astroturfing.

Either way, the high ratings are definitely bullshit.

[–] LodeMike@lemmy.today 14 points 2 weeks ago

The purpose of the audience rating is "how people who thought they would like the movie thought of it" which is approximated via the verified views thing. So this makes sense.

[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 51 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

The "verified audience" aspect is the issue. Only people that paid for tickets are giving these reviews. One review:

It was a magical awesome experience starting with the first song.

Uh....yeah.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)
[–] hansolo@lemmy.today 1 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Someone spent money to buy tickets and make bots write reviews. I don't think they got it for free.

[–] p03locke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 2 weeks ago

Doesn't make it any less not verified. A bot is not a verified user. They are bots.

[–] pulsewidth@lemmy.world 43 points 2 weeks ago

I checked 10 reviewer accounts from the first few pages. Literally all of them had only one rating on their account: Melania, 5 stars.

At least try to look like you're not astroturfing, lol.

See for yourself: https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/melania/reviews/all-audience

[–] Shadow@lemmy.ca 42 points 2 weeks ago

Amazon spent $35m on it, I'm sure they can spend a little bit of that on buying some positive reviews

[–] jpreston2005@lemmy.world 23 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] betterdeadthanreddit@lemmy.world 13 points 2 weeks ago

I'm used to RT brown-nosing the bastard until they're neck-deep but it's usually not this RT.

[–] aemilrex@piefed.social 2 points 2 weeks ago

or Slovenes maybe?

[–] paraphrand@lemmy.world 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Audience score has always been nonsense.

[–] MotoAsh@piefed.social 6 points 2 weeks ago

They've both been nonsense.

Only the tomatometer is actually a valid score. The site is called rottentomatoes not rottenpopcorn...

[–] itisileclerk@lemmy.world 7 points 2 weeks ago

Trump can't do nothing without vote fraud.

[–] CitizenKong@lemmy.world 3 points 2 weeks ago

RT is owned by Versant, a spin-off company of NBC-U. With a 25 percent share by WBD. It is not impartial.

[–] Ilandar@lemmy.today 2 points 2 weeks ago

1.3/10 on IMDB. Rare Amazon W?