Amazon’s putting a three-day pause on reviews for The Rings of Power

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The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power will be delayed for three days, according to a report. According to reports from Variety and Deadline, the delay is supposed to help stave off review bombing, or the act of flooding a particular show, movie, game, or book with negative comments.

The policy was put in place to give the service time to evaluate whether a user review comes from an actual viewer, not a bot or troll. The policy was introduced earlier this summer and began with the new A League of Their Own.

The Rings of Power is dealing with a similar amount of negative reviews with some users targeting its inclusion of actors from underrepresented background. The series is set during Middle-earth's Second Age and takes a different approach to The Lord of the Rings. It was the biggest debut for Amazon Prime Video to date, with 25 million viewers on the day it aired.

The Rings of Power still gets bad reviews on other websites despite the efforts of Amazon to keep bad reviews off its platform. The series has a general audience rating of 34 percent on the website, while 24.7% of reviewers gave it a one-star rating.

Users were able to show proof that they purchased tickets to the film they were reviewing with the use of verified reviews on the website. Users were not allowed to post reviews about movies that haven't been released yet. When it comes to TV reviews, this doesn't help much, but it did come in response to people who bombarded Star Wars: The Last Jedi with bad reviews.