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CNet:
Review site Rotten Tomatoes is instituting some changes, leading many to believe it's responding to the recent controversy over the site's Captain Marvel page. But Paul Yanover, president of Fandango, which owns the site, told CNET that's not the whole story.
In case you were snapped away by Thanos in Avengers: Infinity War, and thus missed the recent controversy, here's a recap. Captain Marvel doesn't come out until March 8, but users were already leaving negative comments about the film on Rotten Tomatoes, a process dubbed "review bombing." Many recent comments seemed to come from those who are angry at star Brie Larson.
The movie review site has removed users' ability to leave reviews or to indicate they are not interested in seeing a film [EDIT: before it comes out].
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday February 28 2019, @06:45PM
You're right. The people memeing on the Want To See score expected to see RT at least disable it for Captain Marvel. Removing it altogether from all upcoming films and removing user comments was a nice touch.
RT also posted a blog post [rottentomatoes.com] explaining the changes that was nearly impossible to find from the front page. It also had a Disqus comment section with 0 comments for almost a day after it was posted, despite the post saying "Please leave feedback in the comment section below". Now it seems to be working and most of the feedback is negative, which is to be expected.
A review site should be roasted for removing functionality and rejecting feedback in order to appease corporate overlords. After it is burnt to a crisp, people can move on to some other site.