What’s your biggest gripe with the top 100

As far as I am aware the answers are no & no. Unless they could change the weighting of collaborator & reviews. It's a popularity contest based on ratings from members. WYSIWYG. 

 

As usual it's the Admins fault - how do they have any control over the Top 100 without changing the way it's calculated? Can they even do that?

 

To be honest, it's a long time since I looked at the Top 100. I do feel it gives a fairly good representation of classic prog albums for any coming to the site for an insight into the wonderful world of prog.

It's faults?  Kind of Blue as others have mentioned and the fact that new releases tend to appear high in the list at first.

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This would resolve itself easily enough if the top 100 was about the bands and THEIR music, instead of albums ... maybe a separate poll ... but in the end, one band having 5 albums, and another band having 4 albums and another band having 4 albums, is completely ridiculous and it just shows that the top 100 poll leans towards the "favoritism" of the whole thing ... and for this, I would say that a "review" should not, necessarily mean 10 points, but I can see how it can help ... most folks, I don't know for sure, will not bother with a review and might add one that is 25 words long (silly ... something like that!) ... just to get the extra votes, like the example above ... so almost 50 years of being known and heard is total caca compared to a band from 2 years ago.

THAT JUST DOESN'T ADD UP ... nothing against that band!

Again, have a poll that means a lot more and make sure you say that the "top" 100 bands does not necessarily mean that one is better than the other or ranks higher ... maybe even go so far as to rank them alphabetically so I don't get tired of seeing YES and GENESIS ... all over the damn place ... and I have their albums. 

I think the issue is ... the Admins here don't agree on much together, and worse ... getting them together is probably impossible with folks everywhere around the world ... one of the things that the top 100 poll conveniently lacks and dislikes!

 

The diversity of opinion is what makes the site interesting

 

I also think that people who bother to write a review should get more credit than those who just give a rating.  Writing reviews needs to be encouraged.

 

What does occasionally get my goat is seeing an album that's just been released, that has half a dozen senior reviewers fawning all over it, suddenly propelled into the top 50 ahead of classic prog albums that have hundreds of reviews.

 

The number of reviews that an album has received ought to be given more weight in the ranking system.

I say pinnacle because ask anyone if they like progressive metal and the first thing they'll say is "Like Dream Theater?". My argument is that's a poor standard to go by lol. They are the definition of dry, safe, sterile metal in all manners for me. I also despise anything with falsetto vocals as = progressive metal. James Labrie is a bad vocalist in all ways that matter IMHO.