1 star ratings

I agree. There are a lot of orks and trolls like that Carles,Tamtam,Gershvin who constantly try to lower ratings. Average of ratings witout review are always lower than the average of the reviewer's

ratings.

Just to explain once again why ratings without reviews are allowed.

The view is that some people either do not speak English sufficiently well to write a coherent review in English (per the site rules). Others find it very difficult to put into words what they feel about an album, and do not wish to look foolish or as they see it tarnish the site with a poor review. The owners of the site(*) are committed to allowing as many people as possible to actively participate in the site, even if it is just by recording their rating for the albums which are listed here.

There are over 15,000 ratings without reviews. The site owners feel that to remove these, or simply ignore them would be unfair to those who have taken the trouble to record their views. The vast majority of these ratings reflect the submitter's sincere views of the album being rated.

The site owners are however aware of the controversy surrounding ratings without reviews, and are looking at how best to address this. This will take a little time, there are more important things to be dealt with, and everything must take its turn. Rest assured, a solution will be found, but please be patient.

Speaking personally, I have said many times that I do not like ratings without reviews. I feel that if they are to be included, their impact on features such as the chart and the average ratings should be reduced (say 50% of a rating supported by a review), or removed with the rating appearing for information only on the album page.  

(* For those who do not know, the owners of the site are M@X and Proglucky. I am not speaking on their behalf here, simply conveying their thoughts as I understand them)

Removing ratings without a review is not a good idea. Why? Because you (a common man) write a review when you have a good reason: you have listened to a GOOD record ar a BAAD record. When you listen to an average record you have not so much to say. But you might want to express your feeling and just give a 2 star or a 3 star rating. Most of the review I have read are 4 or 5 star (==reviewer really liked the record).

Only way to get the ratings really mean something is to have enough of them so that the nonsincere get lost in the crowd.

You might think of splitting the ratings in two categorys:

1) ratings with review and their average 

2) ratings without review and their average

br Pirkka