Inappropriate Ratings

Most unfortunate. I wanted to write a review of his latest effort (which I also enjoyed very much) but I no longer feel compelled to do so, to say the least.

Payback with the one star? ;)

I had to dismember and remove the ratings of several more fake accounts giving fives to GRECO BASTIÁN that registered after I deleted the earlier ratings.

SEE this post from yesterday! (CLICK)

It rather reeks of desperation.

I'm convinced there's more abuse still. Will have to keep an eye on it.

^ There are also these lonely 5-star ratings, though we can't prove anything :

^ I can't say with absolute certainty The locations were faked for those others and those accounts will be banned/ suspended/ reported as well as removing reviews. He rated his own work 5 stars and he also did the one star rating for COMPASSIONIZER Narrow Is the Road. I have dealt with all of the accounts mentioned and compiled a lot of other info (for future reference too in case others try to rate them) which I will go through at my own leisure later. Big job, thanks for reporting.

Edited by Logan - December 21 2022 at 11:50

^ What it ends up doing is making the artist look bad and suspicious and turns people against the music. Will deal with, and update this post later. All one person from Mexico so far, as expected.

Edited by Logan - December 21 2022 at 10:50

Newcomer (november 7) "ARMY BANNERS" (Ammy Banners) seems to have appeared with the sole intent of denigrating the albums at the top of the current 2022 charts in order to promote band GRECO BASTIÁN:

Edited by BrufordFreak - December 21 2022 at 10:16

COLLAGE - Over and Out shows one five-star rating (Release Date: December 2).

I didn't really see a problem with tempest77's review. He disliked the record and went into detail about the reasons why. He expressed himself forcefully but I think that's legitimate. Nobody complains about hyperbolic praise when someone is giving a five star review - and there are plenty of reviewers of this particular album who view it as the Second Coming in musical form. Quite rightly, they're free to express their enthusiasm. Music generates emotional reactions, and a vehement reaction either positive or negative is something reviewers should have leeway to express.

"Offended" is a rather mischaracterized term for my thoughts on it. I find the lyrics incredibly frustrating because they feed into a lot of common misrepresentations of problems with today's society (e.g. complaining about "starting at a screen" instead of addressing the root problem of the media industry perpetuating the idea of having a "perfect" self image). I wrote an extensive response to the Facebook comment user Second Life Syndrome left on my review that delves into this further; I am also working on incorporating parts of that response into an edited version of the review so as to clarify some parts of it.