China Wuhan Virus Pandemic

[Terthna]

If that was the case they should have no reason to want reviews at all, traffic to their site is going to consist primarily of people coming to see information on movies and if they get a reputation for that being unreliable, they will lose traffic.

Note also that not all review bombing needs to be political in nature. Suppose one movie company got the bright idea to pay socks to downvote all their competitors movies and boost their own, this is something an honest review company would need to take note of and correct for, because, again, if you're providing review aggregates as a service your user base is going to want to know they're being fed real numbers and not gibberish.

That's not to say the current situation isn't all kinds of suspicious of course, just that in principle, anybody providing a review service will, in fact, have a valid interest in protecting their reviews from bombing attempts.

They already have a reputation for being unreliable; specifically because they crack down on "review bombing". Moreover, they are not providing review aggregates as a service; that's just the bait. Because if you're not paying for it, you're the product.

 

[strunkenwhite]

They already have a reputation for being unreliable; specifically because they crack down on "review bombing". Moreover, they are not providing review aggregates as a service; that's just the bait. Because if you're not paying for it, you're the product.

I appreciate the point of that saying, but really you and the advertisers are both paying in the end, just different prices.

 

[Bear Ribs]

They already have a reputation for being unreliable; specifically because they crack down on "review bombing". Moreover, they are not providing review aggregates as a service; that's just the bait. Because if you're not paying for it, you're the product.

You're conflating two different meanings of "service" there. They aren't providing "service" in the economic sense because money isn't changing hands, but are providing a service to people in the colloquial sense. Similarly, if I help an old lady load her groceries in her car, it's not "service" economically because money is not changing hands, but if you asked most people if I'd provided her a service they'd agree.

Also, I think you have your reasoning backwards. A majority of the criticism of IMDB you'll find isn't about how they crack down on review bombing, it's people complaining they don't crack down enough.

Are the IMDb ratings accurate?

Answer (1 of 83): Try this fun experiment: 1. Go to IMDB. 2. Look up “Jonas Brothers: The 3D concert experience” 3. Click on user reviews 4. Scroll past all the 1-star “gouge my eyes out” reviews until you come to March 6, 2009. 5. Marvel at all of the 10-star reviews in a row, on that day, all ...

www.quora.com

 

[LindyAF]

Also, I think you have your reasoning backwards. A majority of the criticism of IMDB you'll find isn't about how they crack down on review bombing, it's people complaining they don't crack down enough.

I mean, the first complaint here isn't complaining about review bombing, it's complaining abut disney paying people to review their movie well, at least in the first comment, which is a related problem but it's not exactly the same problem.

The reddit guy seems to be failing to understand how distributions work, tbh. <2% of the review on a mostly correctly rated movie being one star is not evidence of incorrect rating (since he thinks the movies are all rated mostly correctly) and these are a small fraction not clearly driven by any one reason, so it's not review bombing. There are plenty of reasons for 2% of reviews to be one star - missclicks by boomers who don't know how to re-rate, people who disliked it intensely for personal or moral reasons, people who just really hate that one actor's face...

 

[Bear Ribs]

I mean, the first complaint here isn't complaining about review bombing, it's complaining abut disney paying people to review their movie well, at least in the first comment, which is a related problem but it's not exactly the same problem.

The reddit guy seems to be failing to understand how distributions work, tbh. <2% of the review on a mostly correctly rated movie being one star is not evidence of incorrect rating (since he thinks the movies are all rated mostly correctly) and these are a small fraction not clearly driven by any one reason, so it's not review bombing. There are plenty of reasons for 2% of reviews to be one star - missclicks by boomers who don't know how to re-rate, people who disliked it intensely for personal or moral reasons, people who just really hate that one actor's face...

That's true, you have to actually click to see those specific comments, but I didn't feel I should take specific comments out of the context of the thread they're in. Reddit can be annoying for how it unfurls a huge section that may not be what you're aiming at, though.

 

[Bacle]

 

[Sobek]

Go on Biden, make the National Guard deliver the mail as well. At this rate thry are gonna have to deploy the actual army to try and get enough people to keep it all going.

 

[Zachowon]

Go on Biden, make the National Guard deliver the mail as well. At this rate thry are gonna have to deploy the actual army to try and get enough people to keep it all going.

The only ways they can deploy Active duty to do such things is VERY hard to do, and would make it even harder for congress to approve such use

 

[Cherico]

Go on Biden, make the National Guard deliver the mail as well. At this rate thry are gonna have to deploy the actual army to try and get enough people to keep it all going.

The national guard cant do it all, their a relativly small organization and their recruitment got guttted by the sandbox.

 

[Sobek]

I know that, the Founding Fathers were smart enough to know and made it purposefully hard to deploy the real army on the nation which is why the USA has the National Guard. But the National Guard isn't as numerous and they are quickly tapping into those manpower reserves.

But they are so out of touch, so sure of their hubris I wouldn't put it past them to unironically go and try to deploy the actual army to do it. It would be incredibly stupid and wasteful, unlikely to get through even the basic checks and balances in place even with the current endemic corruption, but these people are high on their own self importance.

 

[Bacle]

So the fucktards in Wuhan may be working on an even more lethal virus in ongoing 'gain of function' research, that has apparently not gotten any attention from the Biden Admin. This one with a possible 80% lethality via brain swelling, not the 1% of the current Wu Flu.

New Virus Poses ‘An Existential Threat To Life As We Know It On This Planet’ - Citizens Journal

By Art Moore WND News Center Lab worker at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (Video screenshot) The Biden administration's apparent unwillingness to conduct a serious official investigation of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that holds China accountable for its actions and lack of cooperation...

www.citizensjournal.us

Maybe the Wu Flu was a test run for something more potent, just to see how the public and society would react.

 

[The Whispering Monk]

At this point...I'd be OK if the Wuhan facility suffered a catastrophic napalm event.

 

[Zachowon]

So the fucktards in Wuhan may be working on an even more lethal virus in ongoing 'gain of function' research, that has apparently not gotten any attention from the Biden Admin. This one with a possible 80% lethality via brain swelling, not the 1% of the current Wu Flu.

New Virus Poses ‘An Existential Threat To Life As We Know It On This Planet’ - Citizens Journal

By Art Moore WND News Center Lab worker at the Wuhan Institute of Virology in China (Video screenshot) The Biden administration's apparent unwillingness to conduct a serious official investigation of the origin of SARS-CoV-2 that holds China accountable for its actions and lack of cooperation...

www.citizensjournal.us

Maybe the Wu Flu was a test run for something more potent, just to see how the public and society would react.

And unleashing such a thing is why part of the US response is to nuke should we have that used against us.

Also, highly lethal dieses are not always easy to transfer

 

[Doomsought]

And unleashing such a thing is why part of the US response is to nuke should we have that used against us.

Right now that threat is a bluff. The only response would be more lock downs and sino-apologism.

 

[Zachowon]

Right now that threat is a bluff. The only response would be more lock downs and sino-apologism.

No, because they know COVID isn't that deadly and isn't a threat to them

 

[Bear Ribs]

So has anybody seen the hot new "Sexy Vaccine" costume getting ready for Halloween?



I have a feeling my vaccine was wrong, it wasn't blood red and they injected it into my arm, not directly into my brain. This new vaccine gives more credence to the mind control theories...

 

[Sobek]

The push isn't even funny anymore, just sad.

 

[Cherico]

The push isn't even funny anymore, just sad.

the dems sacerficed everything for a poisoned chalice election so you know zero pity.

 

[LindyAF]

I know that, the Founding Fathers were smart enough to know and made it purposefully hard to deploy the real army on the nation which is why the USA has the National Guard. But the National Guard isn't as numerous and they are quickly tapping into those manpower reserves.

How and when? As far as I can tell there are no restrictions on the deployment of US troops in the constitution except reserving the power to declare war for congress, which doesn't make a distinction between deployment inside and outside the US. Deployments with US territory seem much more common in the early US, with the Whiskey Rebellion, the US civil war, and of course deployments against the Indians in our various wars with them both before and after the US civil war.

And the National Guard not being considered a "real army" seems like a legal nicety more than anything else - it isn't the same as the US army, obviously, but I'm not sure what criteria of "army" it would fail to meet removed from the US.

 

[LindyAF]

Ah, okay, Posse Comitatus and Insurrection act. Doesn't seem like those are actual restrictions, given how the army has been used on US soil. That's basically just there to make sure that the army can't actually guard the border or stop invasions or anything. /s