Are people who review things but don’t allow comments amongst the biggest hypocrites?

[jerzey devil]

I was checking to see if Netflix was going to make another season of the cooking competition “The Final Table” and one of the first articles that popped up was this..,

https://qz.com/quartzy/1464756/final-table-netflixs-food-competition-show-is-a-mess/

Some highlights...

Worst of all, Final Table comes across as completely tone deaf, as if no one participating in the show has been following any of the conversations going on around cultural appropriation, sexual harassment, and representation—in the food and restaurant worlds especially. Despite calling itself a global cooking competition, Final Table only scratches the surface of non-European and American food cultures. And it’s rife with cringe-worthy moments.

“The United States, an enduring symbol of freedom for over 200 years. Its diversity is what makes America different and delicious,” says Knowlton, introducing the the USA episode. Three white, male judges then preside over a challenge that tasks the contestants with preparing their take on Thanksgiving dinner. Another white man presides over the second round. Mayonnaise-crusted turkey breast and a deep-friend Thanksgiving sandwich are lauded. A team that constrains itself to using indigenous ingredients is among the losers. Diversity, it turns out, is not delicious.


Then there’s the recent infamous Sticks and Stones stand up by Dave Chappelle. I think we all know the controversy at this point. Here’s an article by Vice that just rips Dave apart...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vi...ppelles-new-netflix-special-sticks-and-stones



My point here is these people write these reviews about other peoples art but they don’t leave themselves open to review. I believe this the some of the most hypocritical and cowardly behavior around. I don’t mind that they have their own opinions about things but if you are reviewing someone else you have no right to block people from reviewing your review.

 

[Herwald]

I got completely burnt out on reviews a few months ago. The concept of it all. After the TOP 100 lists started coming out of best movies from the past decade (which flew by so quick, by the way) and there were, like, 3 good movies... It just kind of hit me how nobody's making anything. And it's everywhere. Video games, comics, music, movies - past decade, there's fuck all genuinely good shit to scratch together. Meanwhile reviewers are all over the place. Everyone has an opinion on how to make something, but nobody's making anything. Definitely not anything good.

So I'm out. Enough with all of it. Even legends like RedLetterMedia - I still dig them as people - but it's like a broken record at this point. And it's not like it helped people improve their game. To stick with the RLM, for example, they did these funny ass prequel reviews that went viral - all the way to the big wigs - and what was the result? Did anyone learn something? Nah. Disney made even worse movies.

And with all the breakthroughs in technology - everyone having more film making tools in their iPhone than Orson Wells had with all of the Hollywood studio money - where's the big revolution? Where are all the new talents and iconic stories and characters? Same with music. Everyone's got the tools, everyone's bitching about a lack of exposure. Does anyone make good music?

Nobody has anything to say. And reviews & reviewers ain't shit. So they can feel free to block comments cause I'm blocking them all from my attention anyway.

 

[jerzey devil]

Matt Stone, one of the creators of South Park, made a good point in this recent interview...

"They may have laughed like hell at that, and then they went home and they know what they have to write to keep their job," Stone told the Hollywood Reporter this week.

"So when I read TV reviews or cultural reviews, I think of someone in prison, writing. I think about somebody writing a hostage note. This is not what they think. This is what they have to do to keep their job in a social media world," he explained. "So I don't hold it against them."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...appelles-comedy-special-that-people-loved/amp

So these reviewers aren’t even being honest anyway.

 

[Pittie Petey]

White people even slather mayonnaise all over their Thanksgiving turkeys? <Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo>

 

[Only Here for Attachments]

Professional reviewers make me hate the internet. Fuck them, I don't listen to what any of them say about anything

 

[Bacco]

They are hypocrite

At same time internet teached me like huge% of people should not have the right of a comment section

So whatever

 

[jerzey devil]

White people even slather mayonnaise all over their Thanksgiving turkeys? <Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo>

I’m pretty sure that dish won the thanksgiving challenge too.

 

[I'm Shawn Spencer]

Internet people write stupid, inflammatory things just so people will spread them around. They want you to post their url on as many sites as you can. They get paid by clicks on their pages....not by comments on their pages. So when somebody writes something that makes you want to tell a friend and say "can you believe this garbage?!" that's what they want. They want you to send it to your friends. They want you to post it on your favorite forums. That's more money in their pockets. And that keeps the trend going. Break the chain, my friend. When you see something obviously wrong or stupid....keep it to yourself and tell no one.

 

[IamStryker]

The only reviews that matter are USER reviews. A lot of user reviews to see if a movie is enjoyable, or a comedy special is funny. If a lot of consumers do not agree that something is entertaining/funny then that is actually important information. These extremely biased professional reviewers don't contribute shit. They just have an agenda to push.

 

[Rhood]

Professional reviewers = Electoral College voters
They are the minority voters/film critics, but determines whether something wins or fails.

Audience reviewers/Voters are the majority, yet they have no impact on the final score.

Welcome to America
Your vote doesn't count.

 

[zapataxiv]

Professional reviewers = Electoral College voters
They are the minority voters/film critics, but determines whether something wins or fails.

Audience reviewers/Voters are the majority, yet they have no impact on the final score.

Welcome to America
Your vote doesn't count.

I didn’t understand your whole post but I agree with the message!
Fuck minority electricians they are ruining our cuntrhee

 

[VulcanNervPinch]

I was checking to see if Netflix was going to make another season of the cooking competition “The Final Table” and one of the first articles that popped up was this..,

https://qz.com/quartzy/1464756/final-table-netflixs-food-competition-show-is-a-mess/

Some highlights...

Worst of all, Final Table comes across as completely tone deaf, as if no one participating in the show has been following any of the conversations going on around cultural appropriation, sexual harassment, and representation—in the food and restaurant worlds especially. Despite calling itself a global cooking competition, Final Table only scratches the surface of non-European and American food cultures. And it’s rife with cringe-worthy moments.

“The United States, an enduring symbol of freedom for over 200 years. Its diversity is what makes America different and delicious,” says Knowlton, introducing the the USA episode. Three white, male judges then preside over a challenge that tasks the contestants with preparing their take on Thanksgiving dinner. Another white man presides over the second round. Mayonnaise-crusted turkey breast and a deep-friend Thanksgiving sandwich are lauded. A team that constrains itself to using indigenous ingredients is among the losers. Diversity, it turns out, is not delicious.


Then there’s the recent infamous Sticks and Stones stand up by Dave Chappelle. I think we all know the controversy at this point. Here’s an article by Vice that just rips Dave apart...

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.vi...ppelles-new-netflix-special-sticks-and-stones



My point here is these people write these reviews about other peoples art but they don’t leave themselves open to review. I believe this the some of the most hypocritical and cowardly behavior around. I don’t mind that they have their own opinions about things but if you are reviewing someone else you have no right to block people from reviewing your review.

You can review those reviewers anywhere you want.

In fact, you just did.

I assume you're complaining about them blocking comments. There is some negative to the practice, but at the same time, I have a lot of sympathy towards that, too. The Internet is loaded with profane, retarded, abusive assholes. Who wants them talking on your page of something?

And why do those people feel free to be profane, retarded, abusive assholes? Because they are usually anonymous and untraceable and face no real consequences for their behavior. If you want to knock someone for being a coward, why not start there?

 

[cooks1]

So you don't like people who don't allow reviews of their reviews?

Hmm....... Interesting.

I would love someone to create a website and an app to review reviews. And I want them to unearth and make public the authors of the most heinous anonymous on line comments. And I want it to become the biggest thing since facebook. Yes, that would be the perfect period on the sentence that has been the last 20 years.

 

[AGGAMEMNON66]

White people even slather mayonnaise all over their Thanksgiving turkeys? <Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo><Lmaoo>

Maybe Canadians do. Because let’s face it, The US is so great, other countries celebrate our holidays..

 

[mjmj]

The comment sections of, well, just about any site, are the bottom of the cesspool that the internet is becoming. It has become just a place to be an asshole. People having nothing better going on in their lives than to troll comment sections pretending everyone finds their comments as funny as they do.

 

[moreorless87]

Matt Stone, one of the creators of South Park, made a good point in this recent interview...

"They may have laughed like hell at that, and then they went home and they know what they have to write to keep their job," Stone told the Hollywood Reporter this week.

"So when I read TV reviews or cultural reviews, I think of someone in prison, writing. I think about somebody writing a hostage note. This is not what they think. This is what they have to do to keep their job in a social media world," he explained. "So I don't hold it against them."

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.th...appelles-comedy-special-that-people-loved/amp

So these reviewers aren’t even being honest anyway.

I think that's very true with comment on the entertainment industry generally and a lot of the reason for lazier "SJW" style reporting Sherdog hates so much. Media people who'se career tends to depend on the ability to produce a lot of content and hits rather than quality of writing. That's why they latch ontop so many questionable "political" points, its very often an easy and fast way to generate content and traffic. So you end up with a herd like mentality building up a lot of these issues rather than any kind of well reasoned argument.

You could also I spose make the argument its why criticism tends to flow easier than praise generally, its easier to come up with and generate interest from. For praise to really generate interest in generally needs to be very well written and insightful.