Wednesday, September 5, 2007

Netflix rolls out the fan-boy nuclear option

Michael over at the netflix community blog updated the masses on the new FLAG A REVIEW OR AVATAR option. I can see this going bad.

Make sure your avatar is something non-offensive:

If a reviewer is flagged as having objectionable nicknames or avatars, their name and image is automatically reset. If this happens to you, and you are CERTAIN there is nothing objectionable going on, go ahead and put the same photo and nickname back. But if it gets flagged AGAIN, you could lose your account and have to deal with customer service to deal with the situation.


And don't piss off the fan-boys with a bad review of the movie they love and have covered their mom's basement with posters of:
And as you may have assumed, getting your reviews flagged in various ways really can reduce your influence score, and thus your rank as a reviewer, if that matters to you.


I think I am just going to play it save and remove all my reviews.

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