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Finnforest 
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I wouldn't have used a thank you button though....I would have posted here or sent a PM
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...that moment you realize you like "Mob Rules" better than "Heaven and Hell"
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Andrea Cortese
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Posted: February 06 2011 at 10:49 |
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^^^ yeah, I wouldn't too!
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octopus-4
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Posted: February 15 2011 at 15:29 |
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This is the private message that I've sent him. As for the previous review, I don't see anything "illegal" and I don't care about what's the top rated album. I have made SEBTP loose the top with my three stars review some weeks ago.
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: February 15 2011 at 21:03 |
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Logan
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Posted: February 15 2011 at 21:09 |
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I'd like to move comments to Reviews discussion after supper. I took it that the problem is not that the review itself is problematic, but that it looks like the same person might have written it who wrote the removed TAAB review (multiple account issue then). Edited by Logan - February 15 2011 at 21:10 |
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Henry Plainview
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Posted: February 15 2011 at 21:32 |
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Is that really a problem? If we're assuming it is the same person, maybe he decided to jettison the old account, and as long as the ratings don't overlap I think that's ok. |
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if you own a sodastream i hate you
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Logan
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Posted: February 15 2011 at 21:50 |
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I don't know if there's any problem, but I took it that that was likely to be
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Logan
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AtomicCrimsonRush
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Posted: February 15 2011 at 23:17 |
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It beamed over here. Once again the review itself is not that bad but its a bit misinformed... as to what prog is. Since when was melody important?
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octopus-4
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Posted: February 16 2011 at 00:08 |
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Good choice. Let's continue, if it's the case, on a most appropriate place.
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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octopus-4
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Posted: February 16 2011 at 00:12 |
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Good point. But he's mainly from Symphonic and neo-prog. For him melody is important. My concern was about KC that are not always so "melodic", and this is what I wrote in my message.
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I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution
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frippism
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Posted: March 19 2011 at 13:01 |
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Definitely on the bigger albums, but the smaller (less popular) albums? Albums that are complete masterpieces, yet some jerk rated it 1 star, not knowing anything of the album, and ruins the rating, and nobody would interested in discovering the album, and nobody would be interested in listening to it to review it and attract a wider audience. It's dangerous. I say delete ratings in general. Concerning Silber, which rated all RIO albums 1 star, and the only album he decided to review, is Cardiacs' "Sing To God", and also Ahmetbolanyig, who has rated almost all (all but "Hot Rats") one star, and "Sing To God" is one of his only reviews, have dramatically hurt the general view of the album, and of Cardiacs. And considering the situation, where as I already said, lead singer Tim Smith is 2.5 years now recovering from a stroke, this review hurts album sales, and decreases people's interest, in a time where every album sold goes straight to help Tim Smith's recovery And these 2 reviews have dramatically decreased the album's rating, and less people will be interested in buying it. AND of course, considering the music is so great in the first place, and all they are doing is reviewing a whole sub-genre and labeling crap, without really knowing what they're talking about many times!
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Dean
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Siber and Ahmetbolanyig have been kicked off the site, but not for how they rate or review albums. They were ejected for being the same person and for no other reason.
The rating for "Sing to God" should go up to 4.55 (ish) soon, once the removal of this miscreant has filtered through the cache. Whether an album is rated at 4.31 or 4.55 will not affect its sales.
HOWEVER: People can review an album however they like - it is not for us to decide that someone is not permitted to review just because we don't agree with them. To do that is fundamentally wrong.
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 19 2011 at 16:26 |
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Yes Dean, but I believe there must be a limit. I rated one Tech Extreme Metal album with 2 stars. but:
I don't believe for a second that this guy bought 56 albums of a genre he hates (all are rated with one star) and 100 Prog Metal albums, (All except 2 a re rated with one star)...Each and every album without a support or a reason. Sorry, I don't buy this and I'm 100% sure that if this guy has heard 3 albums out of 156 is too much. Iván. |
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Dean
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Posted: March 19 2011 at 18:12 |
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Epignosis
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Posted: March 19 2011 at 18:16 |
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I object to Ivan giving the Parish guy Spock's Beard's "f**k YOU!" album for the poor kids.
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frippism
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Look, of course that drawing a line is a difficult if not impossible thing to do. But you can see that this guy is off to screw up an entire sub-genre for no particular reason. If you gave me eight one-star reviews of all Genesis albums, and elaborated on why you dislike the albums so much and what are the reasons these albums shouldn't listened to, than fine! Even excellent! If anyone would review an album like "Sing To God", which I put in my top 2 albums, and give it a one-star, but justify why he gives this album one star and explains the faults of the album, what am I to do against it? It's when an album gets unfairly reviewed when I have a problem. I don't think people should review sub-genres here that they have some sort of grudge against (not that I'm the one to stop them from doing it). For example, I disagree so very strongly with Neo-Prog and the music many of these groups wrote and the elements used in the album that I would give all their albums no higher than 2-stars. But I'll never do it because Neo-Prog is a sub-genre I have not learned to understand or appreciate, and it's not fair for people looking for the very things that I don't like to listen to, as my reviews and rating would spoil the band's rating average (or whatever you call it), and band's who made great (great not for me but still great) music won't be as popular or as widespread because one jerk, or many jerks, have just an annoying hatred for Neo-Prog or any other sub-genre. When someone like Silber comes just to rate albums 1-star, because he dislikes genres as a whole, that ticks me off I won't lie. Is he entitled to his opinion? Of course. But when he hasn't listened to any of these albums (I'm assuming he at least didn't listen to most of them), it's... trolling. There's really no word to describe it. And when it's this obvious this guy isn't really legitimate he deserves to banned, because he's giving his official critique to something he hasn't really put much time and thought in.
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Dean
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Posted: March 19 2011 at 19:23 |
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Similarly we cannot dictate which subgenres and albums a member is not allowed to review, to do that would be wrong - any member can review or rate any number of albums in any subgenre - to impose any rule to the contrary would be wrong - that would be the worse kind of censorship and something that I cannot and will not support.
Nor should we ban them for writing reviews for a subgenre they clearly do not like - to do that would also be wrong. It is impossibe to screw-up a genre by 1-star rating - the mathematics proves that - one member one vote/album - the voting of one member isn't going to affect the consensus vote enough to make a difference. Also, how can you assume that 8 1-star ratings for Genesis would not be unfair but one 1-star review for The Cardiacs is unfair - that does not make sense, if I said that all those 1-star reviews were for Collins era Genesis then some kind of grudge could be construed from that, but that still wouldn't be proof. And even it it was true and could be proven that still isn't breaking any rules or a reason for banning them.
Mr Bolanyig got banned for having two accounts (proven by two separate methods which I will not elaborate on), not for what he reviewed or how many 1-star ratings he gave. He broke a rule that earns an instant banning - "no multiple accounts are permitted".
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 19 2011 at 23:33 |
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My opinion hasn't changed, I believe ratings without reviews are negative and say nothing, but if a person rates ALL THE ALBUMS OF ONE GENRE or even 90%, this person is not really interested in collaborating with the site, but misleading people. Iván BTW: I'm not the only one who has that opinion, there's a 1 star review saying "Please, members of Opeth, if you are reading this: STOP the growls. Make another album like Damnation. Please. Stop wasting your talents."...So there's people who agree with my opinion. And even if not...At least they have something to agree or disagree with
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: March 19 2011 at 23:38 |
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Hey,. I'm giving them all the albums my sister left in the houwe before marrying, like Grease, Ricky Martin or Donna Summer, that will hurt the poor kids more than the anodyne and toothless Spock's Beard. ,The problem is that the church will more likely sell Grease or Ricky Martin than Spock's Beard  Iván
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