Inappropriate Ratings

http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=20306

I've had a few with one star..... but no text. And I reckon it's time to ban those reviews without text.

It seems like a battle between fanatics, lovers and haters alike.

Even if the album is a day old, how can it possibly be a masterpiece yet?

I don't agree, that everyone should put text when they rate an album. Not everyone is as good with words as others. I, for example, am not able to write a descent review (if I compare to others who have a great way with words).

Feels like being a kindergartenteacher..

It's almost funny if it wasn't so sad.

Logan wrote: I've worked as a kindergarten teacher, my students were more mature (but I wasn't). ;)

QFT..  be glad it was my reviews/ratings you deleted. *spits beer on monitor* Not that I'd get caught dead listening to a Marillion album.. but damnit man... I'd have kept you up all night as I would have just reentered them as you deleted them.  The only person on this site more stubborn than me was Ivan. Perhaps that is why we have the history we do.  I'd have won that battle with you Greg.  Be thankful Neo fans are by their nature...sissies

I didn't kid.. which is why the Neo team fired me...the same day they invited me to join their team fueled by a bribe and a binge of booze broads and blow.

suckers... only topped in stupidity by myself  for opening my mouth as to why big bad tough guy Mick suddenly had an 'interest' in whimpy ass neo-prog.


well they did axe me before I could delete those groups or move them to PR.

Thank you, I deleted them. At least with Kansas I only had to delete six as opposed to about sixty with Marillion. Not that it matters since such ratings abuse is all too common no matter what the style of music (with bigger and more mainstream acts it's likely to happen more), but most of those raters were also big fans of Neo-Prog based on their ratings (for instance, THIS one ). Both Kansas and Marillion share AOR/ melodic rock qualities as well as symphonic rock qualities.   A fan of Marillion is more likely to appreciate Kansas than say Magma I would posit (I mention Magma specifically because of all the one star reviews in my deleted Kansas rater example), and are more likely to also enjoy, say, Rush, Saga or Spock's Beard than Art Zoyd, Soft Machine or Heldon.

Edited by Logan - September 13 2016 at 07:24

I doubt he's even listened to them.

Someone like that doesn't care if they rate albums that they haven't heard at all. He didn't mind rating the unreleased Kansas with five stars despite not hearing the album and he wouldn't mind rating every single Magma album a one without in good likelihood hearing any of the albums in full.   I suspect he heard a sample or two, then went on a rating spree. In such cases, all ratings are hugely suspect. We've had a lot of people who will give every single album by their favourite five stars (and in the case of those with big discographies I doubt they've heard all of them), and give every single album by another band one star.

One commonality of such people tend to be that they never, or almost never, write reviews to justify their ratings. In every case of the ratings I've deleted for an as yet un-released albums, though many of them have done hundreds of ratings, none of them have done one review here of any of the albums.

By the way, I can't think of any albums I'd rate with one star in my collection, and I have a very big collection, and I don't like to rate albums (not that I do anymore) until I've lived with it for a some time and given it numerous spins. Sometimes an album needs a few months to click. I never try to like anything and haven't forced music on myself except for PA purposes or when friends have wanted me to listen to something, but some music just doesn't appeal at one time, but it might appeal at a later date. It depends what I'm in the mood for any given day, as well as what kind of music I'm into at the time, and also it depends upon my exposure to similar forms of music -- often one type of music leads to another. Often I found music that crossed over from one genre I liked to another that I then became keen on (gateway music).

I don't like Iron Maiden or Metallica either (had friend into Iron Maiden so I was exposed to it), but then I'm not into metal and traditionally I haven't been a fan of hard rock (my first love was classical music, but the first Prog that appealed to me had classical influence, then as I got more into jazz I liked the jazzy Prog the best and so-on). That said, I now do like a lot of "heavy prog" since I found bands that incorporated those elements into music that was more my taste which expanded my horizons.

Maybe we should start rating users. We all vote on who has the most innapriate ratings and the ones who lose, well, off with their heads!

^ I hear ya but i can't imagine that a few idiots who don't listen to the music and only provide a rating without a review will change an album like Magma's K.A. for example that has 549 ratings and 33 reviews. I doubt their rating would have any impact at all.