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Crunchyroll Announces the Removal of Its Comment Section Across All Platforms To 'Reduce Harmful Content' - IGN (www.ign.com)
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[–] [email protected] 14 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Comments dont make money, moderation costs money. So pull it and make the site more like the other streaming services out there, make some PR word salad to justify it. Not surprising really. Of course maybe it really was a Salty Spitoon in the comments section. Either way, not exactly the burning of the Library of Alexandria.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

QA doesn't make money. They're paying me anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 4 months ago (1 children)

QA prevents them from losing money. Same with IT.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Comments sections prevent them from losing users who like that. Users are money.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Cost of moderation likely higher then lost profits from users who were only being kept on by comment section.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 4 months ago (1 children)

That's the bet they're making.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

It's a fairly good bet considering the overwhelming majority of streaming services.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You mean the ones that are all failing right now for being fractured and having no appeal beyond whatever the latest binge is?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

Yes I do mean the ones that make far more money and have 10x or more the subscribers that Crunchyroll does. That is correct.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 4 months ago (1 children)

You must be imagining that since the only profitable streaming service I've heard of is Disney and that's not for their streaming service. They're all tanking on investor money.