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convocation 
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Joined: August 17 2006
Location: NYC
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 Topic: Ratings & shorts reviews listing - inequity
Posted: September 30 2007 at 10:24 |
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It seems too easy for these <short> reviews and <ratings with no review at all> to be used to manipulate the overall rating of a album. You can't stop them, and you can't exclude them - unless the Admin. folks decide to exclude an insufficiently justified rating - but it seems a little unfortunate that so many reviewers try to articulate some reason for their rating, but it holds no more weight than another person who doesn't even share some kind of perspective before just picking a star rating. This is especially damaging to "albums" that have very few reviews to begin with...many of these cases are actually much neglected, I think, undeservedly.
Perhaps these " Ratings & shorts reviews listing" star ratings could be weighted differently than those ratings that are provided outside the Site guidelines.
Yes guidelines are not rules...just thought the ratings might carry even greater credibility if some consideration was given to this.....
Apologies if this is an already existing thread topic. I didn't see it. Maybe I'm searching with the wrong keywords.
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Atkingani
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Joined: October 21 2005
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Posted: September 30 2007 at 12:00 |
 convocation wrote:
It seems too easy for these <short> reviews and <ratings with no review at all> to be used to manipulate the overall rating of a album. You can't stop them, and you can't exclude them - unless the Admin. folks decide to exclude an insufficiently justified rating - but it seems a little unfortunate that so many reviewers try to articulate some reason for their rating, but it holds no more weight than another person who doesn't even share some kind of perspective before just picking a star rating. This is especially damaging to "albums" that have very few reviews to begin with...many of these cases are actually much neglected, I think, undeservedly.
Perhaps these " Ratings & shorts reviews listing" star ratings could be weighted differently than those ratings that are provided outside the Site guidelines.
Yes guidelines are not rules...just thought the ratings might carry even greater credibility if some consideration was given to this.....
Apologies if this is an already existing thread topic. I didn't see it. Maybe I'm searching with the wrong keywords.
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They are, convocation... 
Ratings without reviews & reviews with less than 200 characters have weight 1 while complete reviews have weight 3 or 10 (for the case of being a Collab/Prog Reviewer).
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Easy Livin
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Joined: February 21 2004
Location: Scotland
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Points: 15585
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Posted: September 30 2007 at 12:48 |
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See the FAQ's thread for detials...
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rileydog22
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Joined: August 24 2005
Location: New Jersey
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Posted: September 30 2007 at 14:20 |
Atkingani wrote:
convocation wrote:
It seems too easy for these <short> reviews and <ratings with no review at all> to be used to manipulate the overall rating of a album. You can't stop them, and you can't exclude them - unless the Admin. folks decide to exclude an insufficiently justified rating - but it seems a little unfortunate that so many reviewers try to articulate some reason for their rating, but it holds no more weight than another person who doesn't even share some kind of perspective before just picking a star rating. This is especially damaging to "albums" that have very few reviews to begin with...many of these cases are actually much neglected, I think, undeservedly.
Perhaps these " Ratings & shorts reviews listing" star ratings could be weighted differently than those ratings that are provided outside the Site guidelines.
Yes guidelines are not rules...just thought the ratings might carry even greater credibility if some consideration was given to this.....
Apologies if this is an already existing thread topic. I didn't see it. Maybe I'm searching with the wrong keywords.
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They are, convocation...
Ratings without reviews & reviews with less than 200 characters have weight 1 while complete reviews have weight 3 or 10 (for the case of being a Collab/Prog Reviewer). |
Wait: a prog reviewer's review counts over THREE TIMES as much as anyone else's review? Isn't that a little much? I don't think that a prog reviewer's opinion is worth the opinions of three other people.
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Easy Livin
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Joined: February 21 2004
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Posted: September 30 2007 at 14:59 |
Maybe you'll be persuaded when you become a PR! 
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Dean
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Joined: May 13 2007
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Posted: September 30 2007 at 15:04 |
Do Colab/PR reviews of less than 200 characters carry a 1 weighting too?
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What?
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Easy Livin
Special Collaborator
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Joined: February 21 2004
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Posted: September 30 2007 at 15:52 |
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No, no such distinction for PRs/SCs. It is assumed PR's/SCs will want to write a review anyway.
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