I remember when Netflix switched from ratings to up/down. They had a great spiel about how it was meant to improve recommendations, but I think it was to cover for all the shit they were throwing at the wall the didn't stick
1899, Narcos and Mind Hunter are the big ones for me. I’m still big mad about 1899 and would have canceled my Netflix subscription if my wife would have let me.
For Narcos, a location scout was murdered when researching locations in Mexico. As they got closer to more modern times, a lot of the characters are still active cartel leaders. I don't blame them for calling it quits.
That's also when several side by side comparison videos came out about all the jokes her and her team stole. She's the worst. "MY VAGINA....." jokes only get you so far.
Lots of shows I watch got mercilessly review bombed. Can't say I've cared about reviews or review sites since the Anti-fan trend came to popularity. Boy would I have missed out on some amazing television. Im not surprised sites are getting rid of ratings, nor do I care.
No, it's because of recent review-bombing of gay anime (Senpai is an Otokonoko and Twilight out of Focus). This is their lazy solution, rather than moderating reviews.
You absolutely can shadowban people for that, remove their comment visibility and ignore their ratings when aggregating statistics. And since they're paid accounts, they are tied to a person with an address and probably a phone number if they force you into MFA.
Technology is advanced now a days. For example I can get a free bot to kick/mute anyone who, for example, says the F-word in my discord chat. Sites like git-hub definitely have solutions to this issue already made, Crunchyroll just doesn't want to pay someone to integrate those systems into their site, especially when they know that Netflix and other streaming services have done this already and its been successful.
That might be an outcome, but this is probably from all the homophobes review-bombing that new BL thing. Reactionary porn addicts ruin pretty much every anime-adjacent community.
Hey you're not wrong but this is in direct response to a big LGBT anime this season getting botted with 1 star reviews all saying the same thing about how wrong and alien it is
It's definitely a drastic response, however, and I'm not surprised it's blowing up in their faces
Definitely. Ppl are avoiding hacky anime for good reason and apparently that hurts the platform. Engagement is a huge part of the anime community might be a mistake to censor engagement
That might be a side benefit, but I don't see how removing ratings will make a long term difference in viewership or how it could be more useful than outright lying about numbers given that it is Crunchyroll's platform.
To me it makes more sense that they decided the negatives of user reviews and comments (ie culture war bullshit) had finally tipped over the threshold where the positives (engagement and community) didn't outweigh them. Especially with Crunchyroll being almost the only game in town when it comes to legal anime streaming.
It’s pretty hard for me to take MyAnimeList’s reviews seriously half the time. Some of those reviews are a freaking essay about how an anime personally offended the reviewer and their entire bloodline.
Nice, gonna check out anilist. Used MAL just because so many people used it, including r/anime and r/animedubs. In the same boat as the user you replied to, could only get a general sense of how good an anime was based on the overall MAL rating but there are plenty of shows I really enjoyed that MAL said was only ok.
Oh thank you for recommending anilist. I’ve never heard of it before. I’m so glad that site lets you select English titles. If I recall correctly, MAL is as actively against offering English titles for some reason.
Pretty much, way too morally highhanded reviews suck. Still, there are usually some decent reviews, I just ignore the ones that sound like an entitled manchild complaining that an escapist harem anime is an escapist harem anime and objectifies women or something. Fuck off out of my escapism, please and thank you.
Yes.
I personally never go on myanimelist. I also don't use crunchyroll anymore because free options are much better and I like things localized. If I watch an anine that I like and go to the comments section and see "X anime is as good if not better than this one" I might check out said anime.
Why type another website and search said website when you can just scroll down?
Free options are better if you don’t care for the health of the industry*
Seriously I won’t judge anyone who pirates, but let’s be honest about the impact this has.
Let's not pretend that Japan's licensing structure isn't a large part of that piracy issue. I have multiple paid services. If I can't find a show that I want to watch on them, then it's getting streamed. Don't want me to stream your stuff, make sure it's available to the paid for services.
I've got a sub to HIDIVE, so I was able to watch that one. But I'm not going to subscribe to 50 different streaming services just to watch one show from each that I want. It's silly.
Piracy is almost always an direct response to the availability and quality of a product.
If something is to difficult to access legitimately then piracy happens. If the quality of the product isn't up to snuff, especially compared to cost, then piracy happens.
Crunchyroll barely pays back to the original license holders, and the way Japan licenses out things means that there are huge regions of them world that never get legal options to watch their shit.
Trust me, as a Scandinavian, I had to consistently import DVD's from the UK (which is technically illegal) and own a PS2 that had a region-free DVD reader to just watch things on.
And even now, there's barely anything good for Scandinavians to watch on Crunchyroll. All the good stuff is for US audiences only.
I do like to see the stars to judge whether I should watch something that I wouldn't have otherwise. I am pretty lax about following anime news/reviews and a couple of times I've found a good anime that I would have dismissed due to those stars.
Let’s be real, it’s really easy to combat review bombing. For example Steam has a ready made system that shows a way to handle it.
They could make it impossible to comment/review before the first episode releases.
They could limit reviews to people who have watch 80%+ of the episode.
They could limit reviews to accounts in good standing with a long history (aka only approved accounts get to comment).
They could create filters that automatically hide/block comments or reviews that break the rules or are overwhelmingly negative. It’s 2024, the tech exists.
Basically there are many ways to handle it but they went for the most extreme because it’s the cheapest & laziest option & also because they simply don’t value user-generated content. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got rid of the rating system eventually as well & switched to a system like Netflix where you just get a “match rating.”
The sad fact is that streaming companies don’t want this stuff because they want to have maximum influence on what you watch. They don’t want people warning you that the show they paid a lot of money for is crap. They want you to waste time watching & finding out it’s crap yourself.
Let's be real, this is a panic button reaction. A lot of things can be done - if you have time.
The thing is review bombing hasn't been a big problem on the site before, it suddenly started just in time for a new season launch and it looks like some organized "culture war" action. The company probably got a few angry phone calls from the publishers and they pulled the plug to save face.
If I was making the decision, I would announce that reviews and forums are being suspended and work on new moderation rules in the meantime, but I understand the reasoning behind the decision.
What culture war BS got set off in the Crunchyroll reviews? (Admittedly I mostly watch on my TV and don't usually check reviews, so I must have missed whatever happened.)
The usual things that start that shit up don't really apply to anime. You can't really complain about "politics being added" (i.e. women and LGBT characters existing) when that stuff's always been a part of anime. I genuinely can't think of what came out recently that would have started that shit up.
I guess these are the geniuses who bitched and moaned about other media that always had that kinda stuff in it. But like. Anime??? Revolutionary Girl Utena came out in fuckin' 1997 and people loved it. It's never stopped being a space for the kind of stories these culture war dipshits hate, so what set them off?
> You can't really complain about "politics being added" (i.e. women and LGBT characters existing) when that stuff's always been a part of anime.
Well, apparently you can. "Senpai is an otokonoko" got the most shit for having a crossdressing character as the MC, "Twilight out of focus" the same for boys love. But even fairly "innocent" series got hammered, like "VTuber Legend" because the MC girl says she finds other female vtubers attractive and watches lesbian porn, or "Nare nare" because there are no guys in the main cast and, I kid you not, "a girl shouldn't be able to jump that high".
Steam only sort of handles it. I have seen games review bombed for things the devs said with no indication from steam that the reviews are unrelated to the game quality.
It only seems to sometimes flag it as anomalous.
I mean, I’ve been subscribed to CR for over 5 years now and have never once gone into the comments or reviews. I never cared to consider what someone else on Netflix thought of a show I just watched so I don’t understand the appeal of it for CR. If I was curious about a show, I just googled it and found info/reviews online. Why do you have to discuss the show in a particular gated community and not just anywhere on the internet?
I think a history of removing/limiting comment sections has shown that especially the toxic users will find a way to air their thoughts to all who wish not to see it. I don't know this platform, but if reviews are the only place left for them to actually write, I can imagine that they would do it there. Moderating would be great, but we all know that nobody invests in that these days.
Is it? Crunchyroll is long since been transitioning from a niche otaku service that only had subs to trying to be _the_ broad-appeal streaming service for anime.
Im not sure how much of its userbase even knew those features existed.
The reviews? Ever show that isn't at episode one gets a few reviews read by me. I want to know why it got rated the way it did.
It's not like their recommendations and sorting is good enough to just trust what they give me and if I can avoid wasting time that'd be great.
How so? I've seen this posted and discussed on many anime related discords and everybody has been either surprised to hear Crunchyroll has comments/forums/reviews or just likes to troll on the forums.
The only people that will stop their subscription over this are people who were trolling on the forums.
I can’t imagine the discussion on those forums was a great loss but I could be wrong. What’s wild to me is people trying to seriously say they took ratings seriously instead of going to more legitimate rating sites. Do people also do the same for Netflix?
Ratings are handy when you want something to watch without researching. I know finding an actual review isn’t exactly effort, but when I want to watch “anime” rather than “specifically *that* anime”, I’m also not in the mood to particularly research shit. Filter by Genre, pick something that’s among the higher rated (or lowest if I fancy a car crash).
Ratings are for the lazy.
>Crunchyroll announces the removal of its comments section across all platforms to *save on moderation costs.*
Let’s be real here, there are multiple things you can do to ‘reduce harmful content’ and Crunchyroll chose the cheapest method.
If it's anything but a cost cutting measure I'll eat my hat.
When's the last time they improved the anime section of their product?
Even finding a decent show that's not from the last year or two is a pain. Their categories are a pain to navigate, their "related" shows are nothing of the sort, their sub/dub selection is a joke, they can't even keep up with adding a description to the shows(which I guess we won't be seeing in the reviews now), their infrastructure is constantly having issues, and I also really enjoy occasionally being kicked out of my login in the middle of a show.
I suppose I really should start looking into a other services
I suppose I really should start looking into a other services
Yup. The comment section is one of the only reasons Ive continued to favour CR up to this point. Now that *that* is no longer a thing, ill just round out a few of the reasons Ive been longing for a better service to step in at some point for a long time
* Their video streaming speeds are awful, and will often bump video quality down to 720p on gigabit internet thatll let me watch 4K content over wifi on, for example, YT.
* Their app, to be very kind, sucks. *Oops I ended up ranting*>!Instead of presenting me my "Continue Watching" anime and my watchlist upon starting the app, I get to see a massive banner ad with more wasted space than an american SUV taking up legitimately about 95% of my tablet screen. *Then* there is the **TOP PICKS FOR YOU** section, which is often comically off the mark with the same anime i have any interest in, over and over again. *Only after* scrolling beyond that shite can I find my "Continue Watching" anime, which is then inexplicably separated from my actual watchlist by a banner of stupid games I have zero interest in and would have to pay more on top of my current subscription to play even if I did for some reason want to play them (which I definitely dont).!<
* The service itself, specifically regarding watching anime, isnt amazing by any means. I have never once gotten a simulcast episode available on my tablet app to watch at the scheduled time, *or even the same time each week for a given series*. Its always just at **some point** in the hour or so following the scheduled airing time.
* The sub translations are sometimes good, but just as often they are either inaccurate (either mildly or quite badly) or poorly formatted, or both.
Amazon has HiDive integrated into their Prime Video app now, on top of the other anime that have been available on prime even excluding HiDive. **AMAZON**, as in the company that has arguably the deepest pockets on the planet with which to throw themselves into the anime streaming industry full-force. If crunchyroll keeps acting like they still have no competition, theyre gonna go belly up before the decade is out. And if this current trend of anti-consumerism and anti-user practices continue, *good fuckin riddance*.
I mean given the state of the Crunchyroll comments it seems like a no-brainer choice. A tiny fraction of the users of the site used those features and the vast majority of those who did use them were trolls.
Depends. Most of the series I watched, I thoroughly enjoyed the comments section. Always filled with neat trivia and context explaining cultural differences and why X or Y is a clever pun that doesn't translate well, or discussions on fan theories and major differences between the anime and manga, etc. It was one of the major issues I have with HiDive; watching anything there always felt so isolated and lonely in comparison.
Or the real homies explaining why something in the anime didn't make sense at all. 9 time sout of 10 it's because information was just completely missing/skipped over. Or even what chapter of magna/LN is roughly the equivalent to get more details out
This.
I never really saw any trolling on most of the shows I watch. It was always either cheering or weird trivia.
Bummer they chose the most isolating route.
Seemed to me like it was increasingly filled with "I'll do such-and-such if I get X amount of likes" and other fishing for attention, but I definitely agree about the isolating feeling of watching with no comments section. It's fun to see what other people thought about an episode, and sometimes you'd have people point out details you might've missed while watching.
It's cyclical. If they moderated the comments better, it would be a better environment that would attract non-troll users. They don't, so it isn't, so they don't want to.
I mean sure, but is having a comments section worth it at all if it costs a lot to maintain?
Crunchyroll clearly does not want to be a social media website. They are an anime streaming website. Why put resources into something you don't want to be, especially when other sites do what you do better, when you could put those resources into something else.
Putting resources in to moderation of comments etc means having less resources in other areas. I can't see taking resources from elsewhere on the site and putting it in to moderating to be a smart choice.
It should also be noted that many streaming sites do not have comment sections.
It was odd that they did have one still and likely a holdover from when they were more of an under the table site back in like 2008.
TBH, comments sections suck on any platform. News Sites, YouTube, what Facebook has become, default Reddits.
It's better to let them go away, provide the content, some recommendations based on viewer's personal ratings and watch history and leave comments and discussion to sites dedicated to discussions.
Noooooo not the Crunchyroll comments, now how will I know who has read the manga? The whole reason I watched JJK was to read the comments about "Just wait until the Shibuya incident hehehehe", "Anime only fans don't know what's coming XD!!!!!!!!".
Crunchyroll comment section really was the most comment section of all time ;(
And given how toxic comments and reviews can get on their platform, I don’t blame them. As others point out, it’s a feature a minority of users utilize and it saves them money and potential legal headaches.
Why does everyone need every site they interact with to be a platform for them?
Removing comments sections is something I've been seeing at increasing rates all across the Internet. Wonder if the effort of keeping them moderated has finally outpaced the amount of return traffic they generate. Not hard to imagine with the amount of horrible shit people feel free to say online.
i come from the blogging world, so i can only speak from that experience. the bloggersphere across the board pretty much removed the ability to comment when shorter form content picked up. from what i've experienced, it's partially to keep the site moderated but also because it's such an unused feature and most people have alternate avenues of contact like instagram dms or discord. so i think it's a combination of these two things. moderation and lack of use that isn't trolling or hateful.
Use yandex the search engine and google it for yourself. You’ll probably get the a russian site or the Russian extension of one but you can usually change language or the extension easily.
Google literally censors links to pirate sites now so that’s why they’re harder to find these days
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imdb did that a long time ago. honestly it did lose a sense of community with that site and i rarely go there anymore. but i guess they are still around. it does kind of suck a bit
I'm guessing this was just the straw that broke the camels back. The comments on most things were either hateful stuff or trolls looking to provoke reactions.
They had to make a choice between investing heavily into a feature that almost nobody used or to just remove it.
Newer anime fans like myself probably don't know what Otokonoko means and are to lazy/stupid to just look it up. I had no idea before watching it, and it was a funny surprise when the lead MC revealed. Then I looked it up and felt like a idiot lmao.
It's a cute show though so I'll definately keep watching.
crunchyroll is bad across the board with everything they do. Thats why people were so pissed when they bought funimation and closed the site and apps and forced everyone to use their shittier website and apps
It wasn't just one series. Pretty much all series this season with even a hint of BL or GL got the same treatment + a good serving of homfobia in episode comments.
Wait are you telling me one anime about a crossdresser has crashed the entire comment *and* review moderation system of Crunchyroll?
Now i kinda wanna watch it lmao
The actual anime that was getting review bombed with hate speech was Twilight out of Focus. It hit a trending tag in the app, and it got hit with dozens of reviews that ended up being pretty vile
It's not really insane? It happens to pretty much all the comments eventually.
Like where did the Nintendo Nsider Forums go? Nintendo just decided they were done with that project and that was the end of it.
IMDb forums were great back in the day, I miss those so much.
I also miss reviewing movies on Netflix. It was a nice and accessible record of what I did and didn't like about movies and shows. I was hoping their system would get more sophisticated, instead they decided moviepoopshoot.com was the only way we needed to get our media reviews.
Separating the reviews of the average person from the content so you don't inhibit views on your platform makes some sense, but I'm not a fan.
Oh man, I miss the IMDb forums. You could talk about specific movies and shows with other people. They were helpful.
The internet is slowly getting rid of forums it seems. Places like Reddit are some of the last that still have a big userbase.
Yeah, its not like its even prolific. BL has been a part of anime forever (Remember the twins in Ouran High School Host Club?) and is so ingrained references get made everywhere. Even shonen and ecchi and stuff often have references. I remember in Keijo one character had a major character trait of being into BL lol. I think it was the Cerberus chick.
like 99% of the controversial stuff I see people argue about is shota/loli, whether or not x sexual sitaution with x teenage female character was ok or not followed by them ignoring a similar situation happening to a male character, the idea that x character was a trap and then how you're not supposed to say trap or etc when often times people were actually saying they liked and were attracted to that character, etc.
And for the non-controversial stuff it was mainly people complaining about filler or recap episodes, saying they were first, or complaining how x MC was weak and wasn't going all goku or gojo or saitama on people because they just wanna see people be punched and want the MC to always get super strong and just kick everyone's ass.
But people complaining about BL or getting phobic or bigoted? Like nothing. Closest I saw to that was when people got all pissy their anime did not win crunchyroll awards that year Yuri on Ice was super popular.
The comment section was one of the things that I really liked about cr :(. Being able to talk to othersa about new episodes without changing apps was always nice.
I literally logged onto CR on my phone because I couldn't see comments on my PC and assumed it went app only. Definitely gonna miss the hot takes and community-building threads. I started watching some low-tier fantasy anime and the dialogue and characters are sooo bad but it's still rated 4.1/5. Was hoping to find like-minded people in the comments who were happy the little treant that screeched "Chibi!" the whole fucking episode died. Still gonna stick with it and hope it evolves into something interesting like Black Clover, but I still wanna read comments about other people hate-watching a show because you've rewatched Slime, Overlord, etc 3-4 times each and are willing to try something new even if it's bad.
Cool, what happened to like half my favorite shows during the merge? Where the hell is escaflowne, the original FMA, FLCL, and eureka seven? Why is the UI worse on crunchy roll than it was on funimation and that’s the site they decided to keep? Why has the Microsoft store had one piece dubs but the next CR drop is in September, normally there’s a two week gap between the release? Hey Sony why am I paying twice as much money for a worse experience than what I had on Funimation? Are these the comments your trying to remove? Where’s my money going, cus it sure ain’t improving the quality of the site? Where’s my anime?
That's actually a good thing, they will save significant amount of money on not supporting these absolutely redundant features.
As for indecisive idiots who shape their whole life around worthless subjective opinions/ratings of random interwebs nobodies - you still have resources like MyAnimeList or reddit's own /r/anime.
I mean thats stupid.
But if you've ever trusted a Crunchyroll review over a MAL review you'd know that Crunchyroll reviews were garbage anyway.
Crunchyroll always overrated shows, you *need* to go to MAL to get a more realistic review. There are some shows on crunchyroll that have no business having full stars, which makes sense because *no other site* has them rated that high.
I may be in the minority here but I’ve personally never seen any inherently negative comments outside of maybe a spoiler or outright hater. Spoilers get hidden away and haters usually get removed or retaliation from fans. Most of the comments I would see were jokes, memes, or people pointing out small details I may have missed. Such a dumb idea getting rid of it.
But it's a paid service. These are not anonymous posters who can just make new accounts whenever they want. It would take minimal effort to ban certain users from posting in the comment section. This is just Crunchyroll being cheep and not wanting to spend any resources on the issue.
Who would sign up for a new paid subscription with a different payment method just to troll a comment section?
> But it's a paid service. These are not anonymous posters who can just make new accounts whenever they want.
It has paid plans but it also is useable for free. Ad supported, and new simulcasts are delayed and maybe some other content is locked idk, but you definitely could have nonpaying accounts commenting.
I suppost an idea would have been for them to just disable commenting on free accounts.
And they will still get review bombed. They havent disabled the rating function. Written reviews were a great way to find out whether some homophobic idiot just hit 1 star or whether there was some valid criticism. Now that is gone.
Granted, now all reviews have been removed from movies, shows in streaming platforms, performances and videogames.
FYI, Crunchyroll not only has removed comments, but reviews too.
That's kind of its own service too.
A company that's equipped to provide you with quality television programming isn't necessarily also equipped to provide you with a decent social network.
Having one company to provide you with a programming, and another company to provide you with the venue to discuss it literally results in better service on both counts.
I know, all corporations are rapidly merging into omnicorp anyway, but not every app or website needs to be all things to all people.
Content moderation and all the legal headache isn't really worth it tbh lol
Reddit gets away with it cause of all the power hungry mods that do this shit for free
This isn't a big deal. Crunchy roll comments are just a cess pool filled with assholes deliberately spoiling content. You can't interact with the comments until you finish the show anyhow.
As much as this is anti-consumer as hell, getting rid of user reviews, I’ll be honest, I never trusted y’all’s reviews to begin with. You got one of 3 scenarios with Crunchyroll user reviews. 1. Show is great and the reviews are great because of that. Everybody should watch this/be watching this. 2. Show is mid as hell but reviews are still great. This is because every show has its fans and anime has this inverted community where it’s the dick riders that leave reviews and not the the upset Karens and disgruntled customers a la any other thing that is big in user reviews. And 3. The show is so damn bad there’s not enough dick to ride for the usual suspects so the honest bad reviews actually represent how bad the show is.
I don’t blame them. Was recently reading comments and it was just a bunch of losers talking about what they wanted to do to a drawing of an underage girl. Comments did nothing but reinforce how vile the anime community is.
I'm forever grateful that Shudder still has a 5 skull system. Saves me a lot of time. Anything 3 skulls and below I can generally deduce is...very bad.
Damn, CR comments was the least cringe way to find out how much a studio butchered source material on an episode by episode basis. I guess now I'll have to poke into each related subreddit if I care to find out why some media stinks. Each... sub... Ugh. It's not like I can ask my old-school otaku boss about Beast Warriors Gulkeeva or w/e. Not that CR has licensed anything worth watching in the last five years.
What a shame. Sure, there’s a few bad apples, but I liked reading reviews about anime before I watch and reading comments about what people thought about each episode.
I wonder if Crunchyroll is doing this to divert attention from the poor, rushed translations of the new anime this season. People can’t directly warn other users about the bad translations if there’s no review or comments section to comment on.
Man this blows because the comments is always the first thing I go to after watching an episodes it’s just a good time to see what others thought just after finishing an episode.
On top of this recently near the end of the season of Archdemons Dilema there was someone in the comments who had gone through a breakup and the entire community watching that anime came together to make the guy feel so much better and there was a whole watch party to watch the end of the season, that’s some good stuff and now with no comment section both the good and bad just simply vanish.
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I remember those posts, since I was also watching that anime, too. Good thing people at least managed to comfort him to persevere through finishing the anime before Crunchyroll removed the comments and reviews functions....
Ugh I’m so mad because I REALLY liked commenting and reading comments on crunchyroll :( I loved yapping there where will I rant about bad plot lines to apologize on later episodes for being wrong now.
This freaking sucks. I rarely left comments. But I always glanced at them because there was usually funny or insightful stuff there. I was already frustrated with the site's technical problems. With this, I'm cancelling and moving to piracy only. It's now a better experience doing that way and I'll also sometimes get superior subtitle quality.
Removing comments is one thing, but removing reviews ? Absolutely insane
Its to increase viewing figures on trash animes, anti-consumer tactic
I remember when Netflix switched from ratings to up/down. They had a great spiel about how it was meant to improve recommendations, but I think it was to cover for all the shit they were throwing at the wall the didn't stick
And to cover for all the shit they were throwing at the wall that did stick, but they didn't want to continue...
I’ll never forgive them for killing off Inside Job
It was Santa Clarita Diet for me. 😡
I hear that show is great. But I am not starting a great show that has no ending.
This hit no game no life fans right in the feels
At least in that case we have the source material in English too. A lot of these Netflix shows were original, so people are out of luck.
You seem to be under the impression that I read.
Ah what?! That show was awesome
1899, Narcos and Mind Hunter are the big ones for me. I’m still big mad about 1899 and would have canceled my Netflix subscription if my wife would have let me.
For Narcos, a location scout was murdered when researching locations in Mexico. As they got closer to more modern times, a lot of the characters are still active cartel leaders. I don't blame them for calling it quits.
Dude, Mind Hunter was so fucking good. I can't believe that they just dropped it!
David Fincher got busy and it was expensive apparently. Super bummed.
If I remember right, the hypthesized sole reason for the removal of ratings by stars was an amy shumer special getting absolutely dunked on.
That seems like a story Reddit commenters would love
The Schumer special was basically review bombed *by* reddit. If there's one thing reddit hates, it's Amy Schumer.
Amy Schumer, any AMA where someone gets salty about answering any questions, pictures of a "safe you found" and never open it...
That's also when several side by side comparison videos came out about all the jokes her and her team stole. She's the worst. "MY VAGINA....." jokes only get you so far.
It's true, I do.
> It's true, I do. Guilty as well.
"We did it, Reddit!"
I'm torn, because if you look up reviews for shit like hook, it's a classic, but people today would skip it based on the reviews.
It always comes down to these companies not wanting to deal with review-bombing.
Lots of shows I watch got mercilessly review bombed. Can't say I've cared about reviews or review sites since the Anti-fan trend came to popularity. Boy would I have missed out on some amazing television. Im not surprised sites are getting rid of ratings, nor do I care.
If people online can shit one someone's good time without repercussions, they will.
No, it's because of recent review-bombing of gay anime (Senpai is an Otokonoko and Twilight out of Focus). This is their lazy solution, rather than moderating reviews.
That definitely tracks, punish the class because of the class clown.
But exactly how would you punish the clown in this case tho? You can't revoke a user's account solely for a putting a low rating on a show
You could revoke their ability to comment if they're saying something fucked up or hateful...
You absolutely can shadowban people for that, remove their comment visibility and ignore their ratings when aggregating statistics. And since they're paid accounts, they are tied to a person with an address and probably a phone number if they force you into MFA.
Technology is advanced now a days. For example I can get a free bot to kick/mute anyone who, for example, says the F-word in my discord chat. Sites like git-hub definitely have solutions to this issue already made, Crunchyroll just doesn't want to pay someone to integrate those systems into their site, especially when they know that Netflix and other streaming services have done this already and its been successful.
That might be an outcome, but this is probably from all the homophobes review-bombing that new BL thing. Reactionary porn addicts ruin pretty much every anime-adjacent community.
Hey you're not wrong but this is in direct response to a big LGBT anime this season getting botted with 1 star reviews all saying the same thing about how wrong and alien it is It's definitely a drastic response, however, and I'm not surprised it's blowing up in their faces
Definitely. Ppl are avoiding hacky anime for good reason and apparently that hurts the platform. Engagement is a huge part of the anime community might be a mistake to censor engagement
No I think it's because someone was talking shit on some yaoi anime lol on the comment section
Unlikely. Trash anime still got 8/10s on the site before this change.
anti-consumer is exactly what I've come to expect from sony.
It's pretty easy to tell. Just look at the thumbnail and name.
That might be a side benefit, but I don't see how removing ratings will make a long term difference in viewership or how it could be more useful than outright lying about numbers given that it is Crunchyroll's platform. To me it makes more sense that they decided the negatives of user reviews and comments (ie culture war bullshit) had finally tipped over the threshold where the positives (engagement and community) didn't outweigh them. Especially with Crunchyroll being almost the only game in town when it comes to legal anime streaming.
Do people actually look at its reviews instead of looking at dedicated review sites like myanimelist?
It’s pretty hard for me to take MyAnimeList’s reviews seriously half the time. Some of those reviews are a freaking essay about how an anime personally offended the reviewer and their entire bloodline.
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Nice, gonna check out anilist. Used MAL just because so many people used it, including r/anime and r/animedubs. In the same boat as the user you replied to, could only get a general sense of how good an anime was based on the overall MAL rating but there are plenty of shows I really enjoyed that MAL said was only ok.
Oh thank you for recommending anilist. I’ve never heard of it before. I’m so glad that site lets you select English titles. If I recall correctly, MAL is as actively against offering English titles for some reason.
Pretty much, way too morally highhanded reviews suck. Still, there are usually some decent reviews, I just ignore the ones that sound like an entitled manchild complaining that an escapist harem anime is an escapist harem anime and objectifies women or something. Fuck off out of my escapism, please and thank you.
Yes. I personally never go on myanimelist. I also don't use crunchyroll anymore because free options are much better and I like things localized. If I watch an anine that I like and go to the comments section and see "X anime is as good if not better than this one" I might check out said anime. Why type another website and search said website when you can just scroll down?
Free options are better if you don’t care for the health of the industry* Seriously I won’t judge anyone who pirates, but let’s be honest about the impact this has.
Let's not pretend that Japan's licensing structure isn't a large part of that piracy issue. I have multiple paid services. If I can't find a show that I want to watch on them, then it's getting streamed. Don't want me to stream your stuff, make sure it's available to the paid for services.
Ugh true, like I’ll probably never legitimately watch Eminence in Shadow
I've got a sub to HIDIVE, so I was able to watch that one. But I'm not going to subscribe to 50 different streaming services just to watch one show from each that I want. It's silly.
Piracy is almost always an direct response to the availability and quality of a product. If something is to difficult to access legitimately then piracy happens. If the quality of the product isn't up to snuff, especially compared to cost, then piracy happens.
Crunchyroll barely pays back to the original license holders, and the way Japan licenses out things means that there are huge regions of them world that never get legal options to watch their shit. Trust me, as a Scandinavian, I had to consistently import DVD's from the UK (which is technically illegal) and own a PS2 that had a region-free DVD reader to just watch things on. And even now, there's barely anything good for Scandinavians to watch on Crunchyroll. All the good stuff is for US audiences only.
I miss those fan-subs days
I do like to see the stars to judge whether I should watch something that I wouldn't have otherwise. I am pretty lax about following anime news/reviews and a couple of times I've found a good anime that I would have dismissed due to those stars.
They're not removing the numerical scores. The problem was some idiots started review bombing animes, often even before the release.
Let’s be real, it’s really easy to combat review bombing. For example Steam has a ready made system that shows a way to handle it. They could make it impossible to comment/review before the first episode releases. They could limit reviews to people who have watch 80%+ of the episode. They could limit reviews to accounts in good standing with a long history (aka only approved accounts get to comment). They could create filters that automatically hide/block comments or reviews that break the rules or are overwhelmingly negative. It’s 2024, the tech exists. Basically there are many ways to handle it but they went for the most extreme because it’s the cheapest & laziest option & also because they simply don’t value user-generated content. I wouldn’t be surprised if they got rid of the rating system eventually as well & switched to a system like Netflix where you just get a “match rating.” The sad fact is that streaming companies don’t want this stuff because they want to have maximum influence on what you watch. They don’t want people warning you that the show they paid a lot of money for is crap. They want you to waste time watching & finding out it’s crap yourself.
Let's be real, this is a panic button reaction. A lot of things can be done - if you have time. The thing is review bombing hasn't been a big problem on the site before, it suddenly started just in time for a new season launch and it looks like some organized "culture war" action. The company probably got a few angry phone calls from the publishers and they pulled the plug to save face. If I was making the decision, I would announce that reviews and forums are being suspended and work on new moderation rules in the meantime, but I understand the reasoning behind the decision.
Let's be real, the future sucks.
What culture war BS got set off in the Crunchyroll reviews? (Admittedly I mostly watch on my TV and don't usually check reviews, so I must have missed whatever happened.) The usual things that start that shit up don't really apply to anime. You can't really complain about "politics being added" (i.e. women and LGBT characters existing) when that stuff's always been a part of anime. I genuinely can't think of what came out recently that would have started that shit up. I guess these are the geniuses who bitched and moaned about other media that always had that kinda stuff in it. But like. Anime??? Revolutionary Girl Utena came out in fuckin' 1997 and people loved it. It's never stopped being a space for the kind of stories these culture war dipshits hate, so what set them off?
> You can't really complain about "politics being added" (i.e. women and LGBT characters existing) when that stuff's always been a part of anime. Well, apparently you can. "Senpai is an otokonoko" got the most shit for having a crossdressing character as the MC, "Twilight out of focus" the same for boys love. But even fairly "innocent" series got hammered, like "VTuber Legend" because the MC girl says she finds other female vtubers attractive and watches lesbian porn, or "Nare nare" because there are no guys in the main cast and, I kid you not, "a girl shouldn't be able to jump that high".
Which one of those options is cheaper than the one they went with
Steam only sort of handles it. I have seen games review bombed for things the devs said with no indication from steam that the reviews are unrelated to the game quality. It only seems to sometimes flag it as anomalous.
All of those options require some amount of work to implement and they probably can’t justify the cost.
So instead of banning them everyone has to lose?
Just like with the dislike button on YouTube. Removing it makes it harder to know whether a piece of content is worth watching or is a scam.
I mean, I’ve been subscribed to CR for over 5 years now and have never once gone into the comments or reviews. I never cared to consider what someone else on Netflix thought of a show I just watched so I don’t understand the appeal of it for CR. If I was curious about a show, I just googled it and found info/reviews online. Why do you have to discuss the show in a particular gated community and not just anywhere on the internet?
I think a history of removing/limiting comment sections has shown that especially the toxic users will find a way to air their thoughts to all who wish not to see it. I don't know this platform, but if reviews are the only place left for them to actually write, I can imagine that they would do it there. Moderating would be great, but we all know that nobody invests in that these days.
They even removed user reviews. That’s wild.
And the forums.
It's backfiring big time.
Is it? Crunchyroll is long since been transitioning from a niche otaku service that only had subs to trying to be _the_ broad-appeal streaming service for anime. Im not sure how much of its userbase even knew those features existed.
The reviews? Ever show that isn't at episode one gets a few reviews read by me. I want to know why it got rated the way it did. It's not like their recommendations and sorting is good enough to just trust what they give me and if I can avoid wasting time that'd be great.
I only use MAL. Crunchy reviews are trash and they usually love everything
Chrunchyroll is weird in that every show, even really junk ones that don't even reach the bar of "so bad it's funny" somehow get at least 4 stars
How so? I've seen this posted and discussed on many anime related discords and everybody has been either surprised to hear Crunchyroll has comments/forums/reviews or just likes to troll on the forums. The only people that will stop their subscription over this are people who were trolling on the forums.
I’m one of those. First I heard that they have forums and reviews is this article right here!
I can’t imagine the discussion on those forums was a great loss but I could be wrong. What’s wild to me is people trying to seriously say they took ratings seriously instead of going to more legitimate rating sites. Do people also do the same for Netflix?
Ratings are handy when you want something to watch without researching. I know finding an actual review isn’t exactly effort, but when I want to watch “anime” rather than “specifically *that* anime”, I’m also not in the mood to particularly research shit. Filter by Genre, pick something that’s among the higher rated (or lowest if I fancy a car crash). Ratings are for the lazy.
Literally everything on crunchy is 4 stars or higher. They’re useless
People say this for all kind of decisions, but I’ve rarely found it’s true. Big example is YouTube removing the dislike counter.
oh no the 3 people that used crunchyroll forums whatever will they do.
LOL no it’s not. This will have zero negative impact on Crunchyroll when this news blows over.
Honestly, I didn't know they had forums or reviews.
I've only watched Crunchyroll by casting from the app for a decade and didn't know those features were still around either.
>Crunchyroll announces the removal of its comments section across all platforms to *save on moderation costs.* Let’s be real here, there are multiple things you can do to ‘reduce harmful content’ and Crunchyroll chose the cheapest method.
Cheapest as in zero cost, yeah.
It probably saved them a good chunk of cash
If it's anything but a cost cutting measure I'll eat my hat. When's the last time they improved the anime section of their product? Even finding a decent show that's not from the last year or two is a pain. Their categories are a pain to navigate, their "related" shows are nothing of the sort, their sub/dub selection is a joke, they can't even keep up with adding a description to the shows(which I guess we won't be seeing in the reviews now), their infrastructure is constantly having issues, and I also really enjoy occasionally being kicked out of my login in the middle of a show. I suppose I really should start looking into a other services
I suppose I really should start looking into a other services Yup. The comment section is one of the only reasons Ive continued to favour CR up to this point. Now that *that* is no longer a thing, ill just round out a few of the reasons Ive been longing for a better service to step in at some point for a long time * Their video streaming speeds are awful, and will often bump video quality down to 720p on gigabit internet thatll let me watch 4K content over wifi on, for example, YT. * Their app, to be very kind, sucks. *Oops I ended up ranting*>!Instead of presenting me my "Continue Watching" anime and my watchlist upon starting the app, I get to see a massive banner ad with more wasted space than an american SUV taking up legitimately about 95% of my tablet screen. *Then* there is the **TOP PICKS FOR YOU** section, which is often comically off the mark with the same anime i have any interest in, over and over again. *Only after* scrolling beyond that shite can I find my "Continue Watching" anime, which is then inexplicably separated from my actual watchlist by a banner of stupid games I have zero interest in and would have to pay more on top of my current subscription to play even if I did for some reason want to play them (which I definitely dont).!< * The service itself, specifically regarding watching anime, isnt amazing by any means. I have never once gotten a simulcast episode available on my tablet app to watch at the scheduled time, *or even the same time each week for a given series*. Its always just at **some point** in the hour or so following the scheduled airing time. * The sub translations are sometimes good, but just as often they are either inaccurate (either mildly or quite badly) or poorly formatted, or both. Amazon has HiDive integrated into their Prime Video app now, on top of the other anime that have been available on prime even excluding HiDive. **AMAZON**, as in the company that has arguably the deepest pockets on the planet with which to throw themselves into the anime streaming industry full-force. If crunchyroll keeps acting like they still have no competition, theyre gonna go belly up before the decade is out. And if this current trend of anti-consumerism and anti-user practices continue, *good fuckin riddance*.
I mean given the state of the Crunchyroll comments it seems like a no-brainer choice. A tiny fraction of the users of the site used those features and the vast majority of those who did use them were trolls.
Depends. Most of the series I watched, I thoroughly enjoyed the comments section. Always filled with neat trivia and context explaining cultural differences and why X or Y is a clever pun that doesn't translate well, or discussions on fan theories and major differences between the anime and manga, etc. It was one of the major issues I have with HiDive; watching anything there always felt so isolated and lonely in comparison.
Or the real homies explaining why something in the anime didn't make sense at all. 9 time sout of 10 it's because information was just completely missing/skipped over. Or even what chapter of magna/LN is roughly the equivalent to get more details out
This. I never really saw any trolling on most of the shows I watch. It was always either cheering or weird trivia. Bummer they chose the most isolating route.
Same. Never actually saw any trolling comments ever on the shows I watched.
Seemed to me like it was increasingly filled with "I'll do such-and-such if I get X amount of likes" and other fishing for attention, but I definitely agree about the isolating feeling of watching with no comments section. It's fun to see what other people thought about an episode, and sometimes you'd have people point out details you might've missed while watching.
Shout out to Oberle in One Piece!
It's cyclical. If they moderated the comments better, it would be a better environment that would attract non-troll users. They don't, so it isn't, so they don't want to.
I mean sure, but is having a comments section worth it at all if it costs a lot to maintain? Crunchyroll clearly does not want to be a social media website. They are an anime streaming website. Why put resources into something you don't want to be, especially when other sites do what you do better, when you could put those resources into something else. Putting resources in to moderation of comments etc means having less resources in other areas. I can't see taking resources from elsewhere on the site and putting it in to moderating to be a smart choice.
It should also be noted that many streaming sites do not have comment sections. It was odd that they did have one still and likely a holdover from when they were more of an under the table site back in like 2008.
TBH, comments sections suck on any platform. News Sites, YouTube, what Facebook has become, default Reddits. It's better to let them go away, provide the content, some recommendations based on viewer's personal ratings and watch history and leave comments and discussion to sites dedicated to discussions.
What, you don't love reading everyone's racist relatives commenting under every news story all day like they're paid for doing it?
Noooooo not the Crunchyroll comments, now how will I know who has read the manga? The whole reason I watched JJK was to read the comments about "Just wait until the Shibuya incident hehehehe", "Anime only fans don't know what's coming XD!!!!!!!!". Crunchyroll comment section really was the most comment section of all time ;(
And given how toxic comments and reviews can get on their platform, I don’t blame them. As others point out, it’s a feature a minority of users utilize and it saves them money and potential legal headaches. Why does everyone need every site they interact with to be a platform for them?
seems like it's not just comments either, but also reviews
Removing comments sections is something I've been seeing at increasing rates all across the Internet. Wonder if the effort of keeping them moderated has finally outpaced the amount of return traffic they generate. Not hard to imagine with the amount of horrible shit people feel free to say online.
i come from the blogging world, so i can only speak from that experience. the bloggersphere across the board pretty much removed the ability to comment when shorter form content picked up. from what i've experienced, it's partially to keep the site moderated but also because it's such an unused feature and most people have alternate avenues of contact like instagram dms or discord. so i think it's a combination of these two things. moderation and lack of use that isn't trolling or hateful.
Can’t say it’s the same for Crunchyroll, but I’m sure it also has to do with the increase in botting
Every comment section or chat I see is just full of overt racism constantly. Doesn’t matter what we’re looking at. Tv show, game, sport, recipe, news
First was the death of forums, and now is the death of comments sections. Thanks to some bad apples, you won’t have a way to talk to corporations.
These just all moved to social media, where this kind of engagement can be monetized.
Reddit is the end evolution of forums, its forums all the way down
Sometimes I go on ~redacted~ anime streaming site just because of the comment feature
I'm gonna miss the comments. Some Animes had extremely funny ones, like JJBA or Gintama.
You've piqued my curiosity. I'm lame and so have no idea to what you're referring, but I'm interested. Please elaborate either here or via dm.
Use yandex the search engine and google it for yourself. You’ll probably get the a russian site or the Russian extension of one but you can usually change language or the extension easily. Google literally censors links to pirate sites now so that’s why they’re harder to find these days
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Same. The comments section still made CR feel just like when it did back in its pirate days. They’re slowly going corporate.
Slowly going corporate? They're owned by Sony.
Well that certainly sounds a tad corporate
imdb did that a long time ago. honestly it did lose a sense of community with that site and i rarely go there anymore. but i guess they are still around. it does kind of suck a bit
When I used to watch crunchy role the comment section was my favorite part, made me wish Netflix had it too
Dumping 12 years worth of comments is insane, such a crazy overreaction too considering all the hate was on one series.
What series?
Senpai is a otokonoko, it has a cross dressing MC or something, the comments under it were insane I’m not gonna lie
Yikes. And I feel like that isn't even a new topic in anime?
Not at all, the comments were mainly a bunch of people crying about how they felt baited
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I'm guessing this was just the straw that broke the camels back. The comments on most things were either hateful stuff or trolls looking to provoke reactions. They had to make a choice between investing heavily into a feature that almost nobody used or to just remove it.
Did they even read the title of the series? Says right there that Senpai is an Otokonoko (femboy).
Newer anime fans like myself probably don't know what Otokonoko means and are to lazy/stupid to just look it up. I had no idea before watching it, and it was a funny surprise when the lead MC revealed. Then I looked it up and felt like a idiot lmao. It's a cute show though so I'll definately keep watching.
Well, you could blame Crunchyroll for not properly localizing the title but by now we all know how bad CR is when it comes to translations.
crunchyroll is bad across the board with everything they do. Thats why people were so pissed when they bought funimation and closed the site and apps and forced everyone to use their shittier website and apps
One piece has a whole island of them lol
Aka Queer Island
Anime fans and getting up in arms over stupid shit. Name a more iconic duo.
Oh boy.. I can already hear the alt-right crybabies whining about woke anime lmao
Here I was agitated at the MC's name... Ryuji Taiga... Toradora much?
It wasn't just one series. Pretty much all series this season with even a hint of BL or GL got the same treatment + a good serving of homfobia in episode comments.
Wait are you telling me one anime about a crossdresser has crashed the entire comment *and* review moderation system of Crunchyroll? Now i kinda wanna watch it lmao
Which one? I'm out of the loop
Senpai is a otokonoko
The actual anime that was getting review bombed with hate speech was Twilight out of Focus. It hit a trending tag in the app, and it got hit with dozens of reviews that ended up being pretty vile
It's not really insane? It happens to pretty much all the comments eventually. Like where did the Nintendo Nsider Forums go? Nintendo just decided they were done with that project and that was the end of it.
IMDb forums were great back in the day, I miss those so much. I also miss reviewing movies on Netflix. It was a nice and accessible record of what I did and didn't like about movies and shows. I was hoping their system would get more sophisticated, instead they decided moviepoopshoot.com was the only way we needed to get our media reviews. Separating the reviews of the average person from the content so you don't inhibit views on your platform makes some sense, but I'm not a fan.
Oh man, I miss the IMDb forums. You could talk about specific movies and shows with other people. They were helpful. The internet is slowly getting rid of forums it seems. Places like Reddit are some of the last that still have a big userbase.
Yeah I liked seeing comments from ten years ago lol
Yeah, its not like its even prolific. BL has been a part of anime forever (Remember the twins in Ouran High School Host Club?) and is so ingrained references get made everywhere. Even shonen and ecchi and stuff often have references. I remember in Keijo one character had a major character trait of being into BL lol. I think it was the Cerberus chick. like 99% of the controversial stuff I see people argue about is shota/loli, whether or not x sexual sitaution with x teenage female character was ok or not followed by them ignoring a similar situation happening to a male character, the idea that x character was a trap and then how you're not supposed to say trap or etc when often times people were actually saying they liked and were attracted to that character, etc. And for the non-controversial stuff it was mainly people complaining about filler or recap episodes, saying they were first, or complaining how x MC was weak and wasn't going all goku or gojo or saitama on people because they just wanna see people be punched and want the MC to always get super strong and just kick everyone's ass. But people complaining about BL or getting phobic or bigoted? Like nothing. Closest I saw to that was when people got all pissy their anime did not win crunchyroll awards that year Yuri on Ice was super popular.
The comment section was one of the things that I really liked about cr :(. Being able to talk to othersa about new episodes without changing apps was always nice.
I literally logged onto CR on my phone because I couldn't see comments on my PC and assumed it went app only. Definitely gonna miss the hot takes and community-building threads. I started watching some low-tier fantasy anime and the dialogue and characters are sooo bad but it's still rated 4.1/5. Was hoping to find like-minded people in the comments who were happy the little treant that screeched "Chibi!" the whole fucking episode died. Still gonna stick with it and hope it evolves into something interesting like Black Clover, but I still wanna read comments about other people hate-watching a show because you've rewatched Slime, Overlord, etc 3-4 times each and are willing to try something new even if it's bad.
They’ve finally acknowledged [Gabe’s greater internet fuckwad theory?](https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2004/03/19/green-blackboards-and-other-anomalies#)
We just passed the 20th anniversary of the best explanation of internet trolls ever. And it's still relevent today.
That comic is older than most of the people complaining they can't go UOHHHHHH CORRECTION 💢💢💢💢 in the comments section on CR now.
Cool, what happened to like half my favorite shows during the merge? Where the hell is escaflowne, the original FMA, FLCL, and eureka seven? Why is the UI worse on crunchy roll than it was on funimation and that’s the site they decided to keep? Why has the Microsoft store had one piece dubs but the next CR drop is in September, normally there’s a two week gap between the release? Hey Sony why am I paying twice as much money for a worse experience than what I had on Funimation? Are these the comments your trying to remove? Where’s my money going, cus it sure ain’t improving the quality of the site? Where’s my anime?
*Ahem* Welcome aboard...
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That's actually a good thing, they will save significant amount of money on not supporting these absolutely redundant features. As for indecisive idiots who shape their whole life around worthless subjective opinions/ratings of random interwebs nobodies - you still have resources like MyAnimeList or reddit's own /r/anime.
People like sharing opinions, just as you're doing here? Getting rid of comments was an awful decision
I mean thats stupid. But if you've ever trusted a Crunchyroll review over a MAL review you'd know that Crunchyroll reviews were garbage anyway. Crunchyroll always overrated shows, you *need* to go to MAL to get a more realistic review. There are some shows on crunchyroll that have no business having full stars, which makes sense because *no other site* has them rated that high.
I may be in the minority here but I’ve personally never seen any inherently negative comments outside of maybe a spoiler or outright hater. Spoilers get hidden away and haters usually get removed or retaliation from fans. Most of the comments I would see were jokes, memes, or people pointing out small details I may have missed. Such a dumb idea getting rid of it.
A lot of people here don't understand that shows with gay/lesbian relationships got review bombed, this is a response to that.
But it's a paid service. These are not anonymous posters who can just make new accounts whenever they want. It would take minimal effort to ban certain users from posting in the comment section. This is just Crunchyroll being cheep and not wanting to spend any resources on the issue. Who would sign up for a new paid subscription with a different payment method just to troll a comment section?
> But it's a paid service. These are not anonymous posters who can just make new accounts whenever they want. It has paid plans but it also is useable for free. Ad supported, and new simulcasts are delayed and maybe some other content is locked idk, but you definitely could have nonpaying accounts commenting. I suppost an idea would have been for them to just disable commenting on free accounts.
Reviews ratings are still there. Just no text/essay reviews.
And they will still get review bombed. They havent disabled the rating function. Written reviews were a great way to find out whether some homophobic idiot just hit 1 star or whether there was some valid criticism. Now that is gone.
TiL CR had comments
Website only. But yeah, they’ve had them ever since CR was an anime piracy site.
It's on the app
Sounds fine. Not everything has to be a social network.
Granted, now all reviews have been removed from movies, shows in streaming platforms, performances and videogames. FYI, Crunchyroll not only has removed comments, but reviews too.
That's kind of its own service too. A company that's equipped to provide you with quality television programming isn't necessarily also equipped to provide you with a decent social network. Having one company to provide you with a programming, and another company to provide you with the venue to discuss it literally results in better service on both counts. I know, all corporations are rapidly merging into omnicorp anyway, but not every app or website needs to be all things to all people.
Content moderation and all the legal headache isn't really worth it tbh lol Reddit gets away with it cause of all the power hungry mods that do this shit for free
The more connected we become, the less we can communicate.
much easier to shut something off than to fix the real issue..
Aka **too cheap to hire mods**. Lame.
Totally understandable. I have seen the abyss after Sometimes reading the comment section of pirated movie streams.
The comments section on nearly any platform is pure cancer at this point.
This isn't a big deal. Crunchy roll comments are just a cess pool filled with assholes deliberately spoiling content. You can't interact with the comments until you finish the show anyhow.
As much as this is anti-consumer as hell, getting rid of user reviews, I’ll be honest, I never trusted y’all’s reviews to begin with. You got one of 3 scenarios with Crunchyroll user reviews. 1. Show is great and the reviews are great because of that. Everybody should watch this/be watching this. 2. Show is mid as hell but reviews are still great. This is because every show has its fans and anime has this inverted community where it’s the dick riders that leave reviews and not the the upset Karens and disgruntled customers a la any other thing that is big in user reviews. And 3. The show is so damn bad there’s not enough dick to ride for the usual suspects so the honest bad reviews actually represent how bad the show is.
I don’t blame them. Was recently reading comments and it was just a bunch of losers talking about what they wanted to do to a drawing of an underage girl. Comments did nothing but reinforce how vile the anime community is.
I'm forever grateful that Shudder still has a 5 skull system. Saves me a lot of time. Anything 3 skulls and below I can generally deduce is...very bad.
I had no idea anime fans could be so toxic
Damn, CR comments was the least cringe way to find out how much a studio butchered source material on an episode by episode basis. I guess now I'll have to poke into each related subreddit if I care to find out why some media stinks. Each... sub... Ugh. It's not like I can ask my old-school otaku boss about Beast Warriors Gulkeeva or w/e. Not that CR has licensed anything worth watching in the last five years.
Bigots ruined it for everybody.
People are so afraid of hate they can’t fuckin deal with reality of people
What a shame. Sure, there’s a few bad apples, but I liked reading reviews about anime before I watch and reading comments about what people thought about each episode. I wonder if Crunchyroll is doing this to divert attention from the poor, rushed translations of the new anime this season. People can’t directly warn other users about the bad translations if there’s no review or comments section to comment on.
Cowards lmao. Censorship 🙌🏻 FTW /s
Man this blows because the comments is always the first thing I go to after watching an episodes it’s just a good time to see what others thought just after finishing an episode. On top of this recently near the end of the season of Archdemons Dilema there was someone in the comments who had gone through a breakup and the entire community watching that anime came together to make the guy feel so much better and there was a whole watch party to watch the end of the season, that’s some good stuff and now with no comment section both the good and bad just simply vanish. Edit:Spelling
I remember those posts, since I was also watching that anime, too. Good thing people at least managed to comfort him to persevere through finishing the anime before Crunchyroll removed the comments and reviews functions....
I read crunchyroll comments for the humor, much like yahoo news comments. Nothing useful to be gained, but plenty of comedy.
Ugh I’m so mad because I REALLY liked commenting and reading comments on crunchyroll :( I loved yapping there where will I rant about bad plot lines to apologize on later episodes for being wrong now.
Next step: remove reddit's comment section.
to be fair most comments were just bots and rage baiting 80% of the time but removing reviews is very dumb don't know why they would do that
SON OF A B***H!!!!!!!
This freaking sucks. I rarely left comments. But I always glanced at them because there was usually funny or insightful stuff there. I was already frustrated with the site's technical problems. With this, I'm cancelling and moving to piracy only. It's now a better experience doing that way and I'll also sometimes get superior subtitle quality.
I LIVE IN THE COMMENT SECTION AND AM SO UPSET ABOUT THIS! :(
I thought the comments were so charming. I got to see what other people thought of the show or episode and any jokes people have about it.
Crunchyroll is no longer confident enough in their products to host their own criticism.