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The Trouble with Review Bombing (www.psychologytoday.com)
submitted 5 months ago by [M] to c/quarks@startrek.website
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[–] 2 points 5 months ago* (1 child)

Genuine question: How do we decide when a show is being 'review bombed' Vs being actually just disliked? The article doesn't really give any evidence of this claim. (To be clear, I'm not saying it's not being, just need a little bit more than 'I personally enjoy it, therefore the negative reviews must be bad faith', which seems to be most of what I see).

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  • [–] [S] 3 points 5 months ago (1 child)

    The "audience score" being significantly lower than the critic score is a red flag.

    The "political alignment" (for lack of a better term) of the show needs to be considered, given that the tactic is a right-wing favourite.

    The number of "reviews" that appear in a very short span of time could be telling.

    The tone and quality of the discourse on platforms like Twitter could be informative, as well.

    But yeah, it's one of those things that can't really be proven with the data available to the layperson.

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  • [–] 2 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago)

    That makes sense. I'm generally extremely sceptical of critics, to start with, so I would not generally red flag that discrepancy (Look at the awards shows, they frequently are at odds with what is actually popular, since they are fundamentally coming at things from a different angle). But the other criteria, all taken together, do seem strong indicators, so that makes sense, which is a shame.

    Personally, I was pleasantly surprised, but only because the bar of expectation was extremely low. Over all, I still don't think it's particularly great on the whole (although it had its moments). I just wish we could have more discourse about the things it did well/badly without it constantly falling into the woke/anti-woke nonsense, all the time. (For me, at least, 'too woke'/'not woke enough' has nothing to do with its issues - they're all about storytelling and handling of established lore/canon)

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