My Review of Gentle Giant's Octopus
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Topic: My Review of Gentle Giant's Octopus
Posted By: Tubes
Subject: My Review of Gentle Giant's Octopus
Date Posted: April 07 2013 at 02:44
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Could an administrator please delete my review for Gentle Giant's Octopus to be found here: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=940413 I failed to format it by paragraph properly. Help would be greatly appreciated. As it is, it's a poor reflection on the website, and myself.
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Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: April 07 2013 at 03:37
^ Just send a PM to one of those splendid admin fellows listed on the collaborators page
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Posted By: Easy Livin
Date Posted: April 07 2013 at 10:32
Gone!
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Posted By: Dayvenkirq
Date Posted: April 07 2013 at 11:42
| For the future reference, you can always edit your reviews. Just find the tab "Collaborators/Members Zone". |
Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: April 07 2013 at 11:44
You always have the possibility of re-editing your reviews without deleting anyhting. Honesty I don't like what's happening: I don't like how the link to this thread has been posted. I don't like the smiles and I don't like also Tubes who has the right to review Octopus and rate it with one star, but having done it now sounds provoking. I think nobody is showing politeness.  ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Tubes wrote:Posted By: someone_else
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 03:09
And even more, I think you can modify the ratings as well, in case you might think about improving them with some more refinement  .------------- 
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: April 09 2013 at 04:26
Your latest attempt is a blatant attempt at rating manipulation and this is unacceptable. In that review you have made the claim that you intend to do this on other albums. This will not be tolerated:
Not big, not funny, not clever. Fix this now. Also, the Admins will no longer delete your reviews so you can repost an edit and get back on the PA front page - learn to edit your own reviews, any reviews we delete from now on will stay deleted, including this one if you fail to correct it. ------------- What? |
Posted By: Second Life Syndrome
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 00:19
The hammer hath fallen. Hard! Oh, and, he hasn't fixed his review yet, Dean. So, what now?
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 03:41
Well, the options open to me are three-fold;
All of which are distasteful to me personally because even I find that level of heavy-handed authoritarian action to be excessive and the short path to acusations of indiscriminate nazism. The concept of Moderation around here is based upon people doing the decent thing when asked and not being selfish and/or ignorant - pouty defiance is not being heroic, it's being a spoilt t**t.
So the bottom-line is little sh*ts like Colton Beatty of Cedar Rapids Iowa, can piss all over the PA, the spirit of the PA and the good nature of the PA to full content of their bloated, fat-arsed egos because there is f**k-all we can do to stop them.
Yet, ironically, leaving the review untouched merely shows the reviewer for what he really is, childish. ------------- What? |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 06:57
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With no apparent contrition for such blatant disregard for both the letter and the spirit of the guidelines: Why can't you just delete the crude little runt? -------------
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Posted By: octopus-4
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 07:00
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Who so much attention to that thing? He has clearly tried to be provoking, I can't be even sure that it's really his opinion about the album. I agree with Dean, let it be forgotten it doesn't deserve a thread. ------------- I stand with Roger Waters, I stand with Joan Baez, I stand with Victor Jara, I stand with Woody Guthrie. Music is revolution |
Posted By: Second Life Syndrome
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 07:09
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Cool. No one will read it anyways because it's as long as a college paper! ------------- theprogmind.com |
Posted By: ExittheLemming
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 07:30
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I do acknowledge your rationale here if the reviewer is but a sad sack troll who merely craves attention, then ignoring him will result in their either leaving the site or ceasing to review albums.(No loss there I agree) We don't want potentially contributing members to stop reviewing albums or leave the site. If we ignore such disingenuous reviews in the hope that the practice will simply 'go away' when starved of the oxygen of publicity, ain't we setting ourselves up to be perceived as piss weak administration territory? It would be unreasonable to expect the Admins to read every review but given that there is a very active thread dedicated to such monitoring, I can't see the worst offenders escaping detection and a warning PM does not feed any troll's thirst for notoriety. -------------
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Posted By: Tom Ozric
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 07:46
| Octopus - 1 lousy star. Should be banned for life !!! |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 07:46
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Where is it? I want read it. I'm inclined from time to time to write uncalled for pieces of crap but I always have an open mind towards the work of an expert. ------------- |
Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 09:00
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Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 09:24
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So Gentle Giant are a punk band. After all these years. I can't believe it. gentle Giant. Punk. I have a question. If Gentle Giant are pink then why are the here. Are they crossover punk? ------------- |
Posted By: Rivertree
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 09:59
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punk - pink - ponk - pank ... so what. it doesn't matter ... not crossover in any case ...
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Posted By: Dean
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 10:37
You're the one who wanted to know where the review was - so where on this site would you expect to find a review of Gentle Giant's Octopus album? ------------- What? |
Posted By: Second Life Syndrome
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 10:56
 Mean, but hilarious.------------- theprogmind.com |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 11:11
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It's not on the punk site that's for sure I searched and searched. Here"s a better review of the classic punk album by Gentle Giant. http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3736" rel="nofollow - http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=3736 ------------- |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 11:24
I don't think you should do this, especially the first one. It'll make this cite into a monarchy or dictatorship. Their must be another way, but I am not smart enough at the moment to think of one. I guess I am hoping for TUBES good conscience to come into play, but I don't think now this is gonna happen. Let me say that I think we have all fallen under another cheap, attention grabbing ploy done once again by TUBES. TUBES knows how to edit reviews, comments or ratings. He is not that stupid and he is just using this forum, once again, to show off his lambasting for an otherwise popular album on PA. Let's you and I Dean, not fall under this trap. We are far too good for this cite manipulation. ;) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 11:29
He is trying to be provoking right now!! Don't let this get to you. :) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 11:32
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I think you should just send it to the punk site where it will be appreciated. ------------- |
Posted By: progbethyname
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 11:33
Because then this cite will get a reputation for being non democratic. Some might say a dictatorship possibly. Anyway I think we can deploy other means of fine strategy like have members who have 3 stars or higher to be allowed to review albums. I don't think this is an elitest approach cause if a member has 3 stars it at least shows he has some dedication and respect to the website. Just a thought. ;) ------------- Gimmie my headphones now!!! 🎧🤣 |
Posted By: HolyMoly
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 12:49
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Tubes actually did go away, as far as I know. The only reason we're talking about it now is because this thread got bumped by someone else. Nothing new has happened. No real reason for any renewed furor over his actions. ------------- My other avatar is a Porsche It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle if it is lightly greased. -Kehlog Albran |
Posted By: Vibrationbaby
Date Posted: June 09 2013 at 13:17
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I've brought the issue of reviews up many times over the years. Even Charles Manson could write a review here if he had internet. ------------- |