User:Tsavage/TuckedAway

RfC RT audience score in movie articles
Proposal to include the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score as acceptable content in the Critical Response/Audience Reception section of film articles.

, used in conjuction with the Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer critics score
 * appropriate use of In-text attribution to make clear what the content is, e.g. "On film review site Rotten Tomatoes, garmered only 44% positive score (on 112,323 member ratings) according to their Audience Score, campared to a Tomatometer "Fresh" rating from a critics' aggregate score of 75% favorable (on 212 reviews)."

Sample usage: "According to Rotten Tomatoes' Tomatometer aggregate critics score, 75% of reviews were favorable, based on 212 reviews, while the Rotten Tomatoes Audience Score scored it only 44%, based on 119,895 member votes."

Reasons to support:


 * The RT Audience Score is highly notable, appearing to some 10 million visitors a month with the alongside the Tomatometer critic score, with equal visual weight, on the RT individual film pages (example 1) and the film overview pages (example 2).


 * There is already precedent on Film Project pages specifically naming acceptable sources: CinemaScore audience polling scores are mentioned by name in the guidelines.


 * The RT Audience Score would used in the manner of an attributed quote; this would not make Rotten Tomatoes a reliable source for a generic audience reaction.


 * The Audience Score, particularly when compared with the Tomatometer score, has been recognized ... NYT. illustrates how this intended usage works.


 * Without a consistent and accessible way to represent audience reaction, film reception coverage is biased in favor of box office figures and critic's reviw.


 * Things can be eaisly revisited if the situation with RTAS changes.


 * RT Audience Score is based on significant samples, usually with 10's of thousands of votes or more, from registered users who require a verified email address (i.e. not anonymous, no registration voting).


 * RT Audience Score has for several years proven to be a useful indicator, with cases where the AS is significantly less than and greater than the critics, while in the majority of cases, similary with a 10-20% score difference either way. (Killing Them Softly, Dracula Untold)


 * Like the standard practice of quoting excerpts from critics' reviews to provide a richer context that just their rating, supply the Audience Score provides a more accurate picture contextual picture.


 * There is no claim of statistical accuracy, implicit or explicit. All it requires is a minimum of user awareness of the online world and how user polls work.