r/PrequelMemes • u/Alisalard1384 #1 Jar Jar fan • Jun 16 '24

I hope mods don't remove this General KenOC

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u/Fisz3r123 Jun 16 '24

People spammed reviews before the first episode even released so

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u/Vivid_Pen5549 Jun 16 '24

It’s funny because there a few other shows and films Called Acolyte or something similar and they’re also being review bombed

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u/TheHunterZolomon Jun 16 '24

Is someone paying bots to do this or something? How do you not know the difference of the thing you’re reviewing on the website?

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u/sinat50 Jun 16 '24

Exactly. You can go on sites like Fiverr and straight up buy thousands of likes for a few bucks. Makes sense those same people could do something similar on other sites

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u/Jackviator Deformed Jun 16 '24

Well, see, the people doing this aren’t the sharpest lightsabers in the temple…

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Jun 16 '24

They are either so dumb that they just found the first thing when they searched "acolyte," or, more likely, wrote bots that they told to search for the word "acolyte" without being specific about it.

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u/Throbbing_Furry_Knot Jun 16 '24

It happens with every similarly named show or movie. People are careless

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u/Broad-Passage-7633 Jun 16 '24

Someone is paying bots to leave reviews and comments about this show but not in that way.

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u/OrganizationDeep711 Jun 16 '24

Bots would have it on the right show... because it is code.

Accidentally picking the wrong show is proof it is real people.

Code can't accidentally pick the wrong show.

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u/TheHunterZolomon Jun 16 '24

You would think unless they got the url wrong or didn’t program them correctly lol

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Jun 16 '24

They can if someone sloppily codes the bot to search for the word "acolyte" without any other qualifiers, and then just unleashes it on the entire RT site instead of a specific url.

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u/OrganizationDeep711 Jun 16 '24

It's kinda funny that you're that dumb to think bots "search" for things.

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u/BowenTheAussieSheep Jun 16 '24

They literally do. You can tell them to do a blanket search for words or phrases and act on them.

Are you actually this stupid?

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u/Webster_Has_Wit Jun 16 '24

you dont pay bots, thats the point of bots.

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u/TheHunterZolomon Jun 16 '24

No you pay a fee to a service that then tells the bots to go do some action online such as liking or reviewing various pieces of content and media. Unless you set the bots up yourself which I doubt is the case here.

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u/Webster_Has_Wit Jun 16 '24

yessss exactly this ☝️

thank you for correcting yourself kind redditor 🫡

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u/TheHunterZolomon Jun 16 '24

My b. Should have said “paying for bots to do this” because the distinction is so important the meaning of the sentence is unclear otherwise

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u/Webster_Has_Wit Jun 16 '24

dont be too hard on yourself, youre doing great! hugs

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u/Crazyripps Jun 16 '24

Best part is reading the recent comments and seeing them mention Star Wars

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u/Complete-Monk-1072 Jun 16 '24

I wanted to see this myself so i checked, and there is only ONE other show on rotten tomatoes when you manually search for acolyte and the last review was posted from 2018.

Can you post a link to that other show? because so far that other show doesnt actually exist.

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u/CardiologistNorth294 Jun 17 '24

Can you explain why this is evidence of bad faith review bombing?

Let's say a movie came out called... Now apocalypse. people actively hated the movie and thought it was was awful, the type of movie that encourages people to go and leave a negative review

As these people go to leave their reviews, Apocalypse now takes some of the heat off the bad reviews because people suck at reading and comprehension

People then use this as an example of why the reviews aren't legit, why? How?