Inappropriate Ratings

aapatsos wrote: ^^^ it actually looks pretty suspicious but it could be "friends" of the band, the promoter or whoever else... not sure if this can be considered abuse but the Admins could check IPs...

The case with t's Psychoanorexia is a peculiar little issue, just in case someone finds all of those reviews dubious. Thing is that in a German 'zine a reviewer wrote a negative review where the outcome could be read more as a personal attack on the artist than the music itself. Questioning the artists motivation and stuff like that. And when some readers commented negatively on that, the reviewer was less than humble about it. Which caused a massive and heated sh*tstorm of the kind Progarchives have never seen the likes of ever.

I kind of suspect that one of the indirect results of that, besides more people buying the album to find out what the fuss was all about, was that some fans old and new alike also wanted to voice their support and opinions by writing a review here. In other words, there's nothing here instigated by the artist or promoter, but most likely a result of the aforementioned volcanic heat sh*tstorm that occurred in Germany.

^ There's no brain police here. And take it easy, big fella.

Edited by Dayvenkirq - July 09 2013 at 15:51

Occasionally people can have legit advance copies in their possession.  This happened with S. Wilson's album too.

Dean wrote: If Roadrunner are sending out advance copies so people can rate them without a review then they should send copies to all of us.   In the meantime the album and rating has been deleted and the silly tit who rated it has won themselves a free no expense spent vacation from the PA.     w00t!

^ Sorry to hear that ... that definitely will annoy Admins. 

http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=47838

brobin wrote: http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=47838

Dean wrote: As you seem to be such an expert, perhaps you could give your expert opinion on these accounts and their ratings: algos, blacksmith77, giles.on, grey.l, hamelprog, ivan.prektovic, lunasol, marrakesh, nahoum, origin of symmetry, pimko, powell86, ragingbull, seaoflight, sonicS, telen76 and titus1984 ...

Abuse.

Dean wrote: No it isn't. It's someone rating the albums they like.

Fantastic. Thanks a lot.