I'm not sure if it's not super obvious to most since we're on HN, but it's the tone of the writing. The article is written in a similar writing style to other sensationalized news sources.
> Moviegoers, critics, and the average internet user have all used the aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes at one point or another. The website categorizes films and shows from “fresh” to “rotten,” with rotten being those with lower ratings. Now it looks like the site’s scores have been manipulated for more than five years.
This reads like dialogue a local newscaster would use to bait an audience into paying attention using hyperbole. Using extreme language to make actions appear more serious than they are.
yamazakiwi|2 years ago
> Moviegoers, critics, and the average internet user have all used the aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes at one point or another. The website categorizes films and shows from “fresh” to “rotten,” with rotten being those with lower ratings. Now it looks like the site’s scores have been manipulated for more than five years.
This reads like dialogue a local newscaster would use to bait an audience into paying attention using hyperbole. Using extreme language to make actions appear more serious than they are.
Loughla|2 years ago
everybodyknows|2 years ago
3 out of 4 seemingly outbound links in fact point elsewhere within the same website.