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 Posted: October 16 2006 at 03:52 |
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Posted edited "Song for America" Review by KANsaS
Edited by Australian - October 16 2006 at 03:52 |
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Easy Livin
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 17:00 |
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This thread is for discussing reviews. There's no rules for this thread, you can talk about good reviews, bad reviews, reviews which have been reported in the Reviews reporting thread etc.
The reviews reporting thread is intended to be a simple thread where people can report a review they feel is "inappropriate". Posts in that thread will be acknowledged by the admin team from time to time, but it is not intended that any discussion will take place there. (In the interest of fair play, the reviewer as the right to post a defence there).
What we (Guigo and I) are trying to do is keep the reviews reporting thread clean and focused. The previous "inappropriate reviews" thread tended to go off on tangents, and sometimes reported reviews got missed among the discussion.
The first post in each of the threads has the details.
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 15:41 |
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Oops! I just noticed that...sorry Pete!
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 15:32 |
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^ See? Tardis seems to have posted in the "wrong" reviews thread too! (He's quoting my post from the other thread. Is this a technical glitch?)
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Atkingani
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 15:30 |
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Peter, this review has much less than 50 words or 200 characters, it did not go to the PA homepage and doesn't appear in the album page. It counts as a rating-without-review.
EDIT: Anyway, this thread split is new. One for the inappropriate reviews and the other to discuss the content (or not) of some reviews. With time, I guess that people will be used to both. Edited by Atkingani - October 15 2006 at 15:39 |
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 15:29 |
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This is a bit confusing Easy: is this the appropriate thread for reporting questionable reviews? Your first post seems to indicate it is not, but it's now being used that way, nonetheless.
(So I'm sorry if I posted/responded in the wrong thread. I have now also posted my prior post in the other reviews thread. Perhaps this thread needs a new title -- something like "Review Writing.")
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 15:22 |
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Agreed. It's lazy and extremely unhelpful. I'm interested in getting the listener's original perspective on an album! |
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 15:08 |
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Actually, I thought that one fell (just) within the bounds of an acceptable review. It describes the music in a vivid (if highly scathing) manner, and Minkovitch's rating is justified by his saying that the album completely lacks "creativity, imagination, songwriting talent and emotional content."Negative reviews can be useful, and are normally among the most concise -- or even humourous. (I have written one or two similar reviews in my time -- see Renaissance "Camera Camera.") I think that even a fan of "alternative" music (and/or Radiohead) can get a feel of what this disk sounds like, from this review.
It's a tough call, but I wouldn't have cut this one. What are his other reviews like? Edited by Peter Rideout - October 15 2006 at 15:14 |
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 11:18 |
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Not so much censored Angelo, I just don't like giving such reviews ongoing publicity once they have been dealt with.
Starve them of oxygen and they'll hopefully go away!
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Posted: October 15 2006 at 07:06 |
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Figured that, I even got censored by Bob when quoting the review...  |
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ISKC Rock Radio
I stopped blogging and reviewing - so won't be handling requests. Promo's for ariplay can be sent to [email protected] |
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Atkingani
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Posted: September 17 2006 at 15:36 |
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Mandy's rival?
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Posted: September 17 2006 at 15:30 |
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Priceless!!! A challenging reading though... Kind of semi-phonetical style...
Seriously, though, why not to check a review before posting? Some misspellings might be avoided...
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Posted: September 17 2006 at 15:18 |
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This one wins the prize for the worst spelling ever (e.g. "Masterpiece! that is a word you culd yuse to describe this 70's classis"
http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=89876 Also an almost total lack of punctuation makes it even harder to read. |
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Posted: September 15 2006 at 14:10 |
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As you'll see from the wording, it says 75 words recommended.
There has been no change to the parameters for checking review length (which is actually 200 characters), and no current proposal to do so.
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Atkingani
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Posted: September 15 2006 at 12:09 |
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Only an idea, buddies... don't need to maul me!
 BTW, in the case, the 75 or 100 words rule is adopted it shall not invalidate reviews done by the old rule. It will be valid for reviews done from the eventual date of adoption.
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Posted: September 15 2006 at 06:01 |
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Yes, we should better be demanding about quality, not quantity. |
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Posted: September 15 2006 at 05:53 |
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Actually I disagree with this change or increase of minimal count of words. This time 75 and next year 100.
  I dio not think it is fair to ask me to go back on all my reviews that have 50 or 55 words, add more text just in order to reach a new amount just so that the reviews stays visible.
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let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
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Posted: September 13 2006 at 14:57 |
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75 words! OMG...I'm like in a difficult situation.
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Posted: September 13 2006 at 12:22 |
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Posted: September 13 2006 at 11:51 |
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I knew I'd seen it somewhere.
Just above the submit review text box it says:
THE MARS VOLTA De-loused in the Comatorium review (your text here, 75+ words suggested)
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What more needs to be added? This is an essential part of the Genesis canon.