There used to be a button you could click saying "Not Interested," along with one that said you WERE interested. There was a percentage displayed of how many respondants were interested in seeing it. This was, of course, heavily weighted in favor of the movie, because most of the time, you're either interested or not viewing the movie's RT page. When you left a response, you could leave a comment about why you voted that way.FuzzyBoots wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:24 pmEh, if you can find screenshots on that, that would be useful. Everything I've seen so far is showing people both clicking the checkmark saying they don't plan to see it and leaving nasty "reviews". Of course, that's no longer an option. You simply indicate that you don't plan to see it, that you plan to see it, or you review it. That makes sense to me.BriarThrone wrote: ↑Sun Mar 10, 2019 8:04 pm The media did a bad job. They called it "review bombing" when there were no reviews. People were just using the "Not Interested In Seeing This Movie" function on the site as intended. There is no evidence of brigading. Just a lot of people making the decision Disney didn't want them to make.
And, of course, this is emblematic of the problem. You get a lot of tales passed along, and it gets tricky to separate the initial reports from breathless reports that there's "review bombing" or "review suppression" or "astro-turfing". I was recently reading a good NPR article about how we're having the same issue with politics and extremists in voting talking only about "widespread voter suppression" or "massive fraud" when the reality lies much more in the middle, that both are relatively minor issues.
In this case, the fanbase, angry about terrible trailers and exclusivity based on race and sex, came to let their voices be heard. If you want to allege brigading, you need evidence. Best I've seen presented is one tweet with a couple hundred impressions.