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Amazon Prime Video quietly introduced a new 72-hour delay for all user reviews posted to Prime Video, including "A League of Their Own" and "The Lord of the ...

[Lord of the Rings](https://variety.com/t/lord-of-the-rings/): [The Rings of Power](https://variety.com/t/the-rings-of-power/),” Prime Video’s monumentally scaled fantasy series based on the works of J.R.R. The series appears to have been review bombed — when trolls flood intentionally negative reviews for a show or film — on other sites like [Rotten Tomatoes](https://www.rottentomatoes.com/tv/the_lord_of_the_rings_the_rings_of_power), where it has an 84% rating from professional critics, but a 37% from user-submitted reviews. Each critique is then evaluated to determine whether it’s genuine or a forgery created by a bot, troll or other breed of digital goblin.

The audience score later rose to 50 percent. Review bombing is birthed after a group collaborates to upload negative reviews for its “perceived cultural or ...

His stories are about his fictional races doing their best work when they leave the isolation of their own cultures and come together.” Who are these people that feel so threatened or disgusted by the idea that an elf is Black or Latino or Asian?” [The Hollywood Reporter](https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/lord-of-the-rings-the-rings-of-power-amazon-review-bombed-1235211190/) that reviews are being held for 72 hours to weed out trolls — and not of the hulking J.R.R. Review bombing is birthed after a group collaborates to upload negative reviews for its “perceived cultural or political issues rather than its actual quality,” as THR defined the term. (Racists have criticized the series’ diverse casting.) “The Rings of Power” currently has a 34 percent average audience score on Rotten Tomatoes, compared to an 87 percent critics score. The audience score later rose to 50 percent.

Instead, it was aimed at minimizing trolling or offensive review content as well as authenticating the comments are from actual viewers. (The book side of ...

Review bombing occurs when bigots flood a show with bad reviews in order to make it seem less appealing or popular.

"Lord of The Rings: The Rings of Power," which debuted its first two episodes this week on Amazon Prime, has been one of the most highly anticipated ...