ratings system stinks

Ratings without reviews carry very little weight in our rating system. The reviews by collaborators carry the most weight. Reviews by non-collaborators carry more weight than ratings without reviews. Unfortunately, when you allow ratings to be opened to the public, you are going to get people who have nothing better to do with their time than give 1 stars to everything. Obviously, we have no way of knowing if these people really hate your album. However, if it is one troll who has it out for you guy, who has created multiple IDs just for the purpose of giving 1 stars to your albums, than the Admins might take action and remove that person(s) ratings.

I rate this thread -1

My only gripe is that people only rating ruin the first review credit.  I you change the rating system then you are more or less tossing out all the ratings of people who have made carefully considered rating decisions.  I mean I would toss out all the ratings where people give something a .5 and round down when I am king and all you people who do that would be up against the wall.




Edited by Slartibartfast - August 12 2014 at 11:51

^Agreed. Many artists show signs of a swollen ego which is very vulnerable to one or two star ratings, regardless of the average rating. Nevertheless I agree to a certain extent with the OP. Most of the member(s) who gave a one star rating have signed up very recently (a member serial ID in the 52000's) and gave a 3- or even 4-digit number of ratings without a single review. Although these usualy trollic ratings throw in little weight, I think it will be a good riddance if ratings without reviews are no longer practised.

logosprog wrote: This is our last mail to the webmaster of this website. Hi there. we got six one star rating in one day (2 hours to be precise)... two options: your reviewers that gave to our album 4 or 5 stars are totally idiots or your rating system has something wrong... this is what we think and what we are going to publish to our channels next soon. This is not a good feedback to people (us) that use time and money to propose original music. One or more dislike should (!?!) be ok if they come in more than two hours... Viceversa they stink as rotten

Have you ever considered that, perhaps, your album sucks? I haven't heard it, personally, but it seems to be garnering quite a few 1 star ratings.

Logosprog, you don't really need to let a couple of anonymous `1 star' ratings worry you. Just pay attention to the (majority) 4 and 5 star ratings, as well as very positive glowing reviews from the more established reviewers on the Archives.

Pretty much EVERY SINGLE ARTIST on this site will have a mix of good and bad ratings/reviews and you can't take it personally. For everyone that loves this work, there's bound to be others who it does nothing for. That's not to say your work is no good! Just that that particular listener did not respond to it.

In very rare cases you'll also find other musicians/bands being a little annoyed that your work is getting mostly all-around rave reactions, but you know what - f**k them! The proof is all there on your disc, nothing they can do about it but pick up their own game.

With more prog music across every related sub-genre available than ever before, the poorer efforts will not get the attention, so those artists need to work harder to make their own efforts stand out.

So relax and don't stress about it. You've got a generally highly regarded work that has been a firm favourite of 2014 for numerous prog listeners.

Should not be a problem PA is full of silly threads. Fortunately there is some great reviewers here who are very serious about honesty in reviewing. A rating without a review is about as important as......... not much. Keep proggin...

Just to point out that the album generally regarded as the greatest prog album of all time has around 30 1-star ratings.

The trick is to disregard the ratings (if they're not made by people you trust) and go straight to the reviews

I agree Eugene, that is unless we could be rid of them altogether (which isn't going to happen).

Nogbad_The_Bad wrote:   I just had a look at a few of the 1 star reviewers of Ut Gret, most have them have just signed up in the last 2 months, have rated thousands of albums and consistently give the couple of hundred RIO albums they rated 1 or 2 stars. Sorry but this is just nuts. They really all have listened to those albums well enough to rate them? If I hated RIO that much I'd stop listening to them after the first few dozen. Bizarre.

A collaborators review might help a bit to compensate for those losers <hint>