Nowdays we can have json APIs in relational databases (at least in Oracle and SQLServer). These APIs allows reading and writing of single value in nested level too. I think at least check-points could have been avoided.
Orkut and Reader. Both from Google.
Orkut was just toy product for Google. But considering the fan base (especially from India) they got I was surprised they did not continue it. It was at the time overshadowed by Myspace and later Facebook.
Google reader was a nice RSS feeder. Many people was disappointed when Google declared that they were shutting it down.
For both these products, I guess main reason from Google was that they were concentrated on other things at the time. But most important I think these were not matching with there advertisement based Revenue model.
So negative reviews has escalated very quickly.
Bot or not, I normally trust IMDB ratings. Any movie with rating 6 and above is at least one time watchable. Any series having rating less than 6.5 is not worth. There could be exceptions off course.
Are there any interesting incidence of purposefully negative reviews on imdb?
One I know of is [1]. The Indian movie Gunday was bomb shelled by Bangladeshi community as some historical reference was not proper.
It depends on the cultural context. India is a society of scarcity, and with an over population problem. So people try to endlessly optimize for themselves, regardless of the consequences. And then hoard for themselves.
In other countries, it could be different. For eg, in the Bay Area, I saw similar behaviour, but it was not as intense or at the same level as I see in India.
Sure bad people, exist everywhere in the world. But the socio-economics context acts like a catalyst in the Indian system.
