How can I become a special reviewer?

Just start writing reviews. If they're good, they'll attract notice. And keep writing them over time. A lot of people get bored after 20 or so, you'll need to show you're going to continue. Frankly, most of the people who regularly review get promoted unless there's a problem, usually in the 50-100 review range.

Reviewing the mountain of free, still unreviewed albums in PA will most definate get you noted as an angel and a possible new promotion. Go for it !  

Negoba wrote: Is there any way to make the search to find unreviewed, free albums?

You can begin by asking yourself, if there really is need for more Yes or Genesis reviews - and maybe start out with something a bit different. If you´ve only just started listening to "prog" and you haven´t got any further than the usual suspects, then stick to what you know, but make it sincere and personal.

As things are now, and the living costs for everyone here triple (even for the millionaires here), we should maybe look into the possibilities to make a top 50 list of free albums. 

But back to topic: Reviewing unreviewed free albums is a sure way to get noticed here by the powers that is. 

If anyone here wants to compile and maintain a top 50 free albums list and by then keeping the interest for PA up for those of you, make that us, who has problems spending money on albums when all the bills is slowly making that luxury impossible, please get in touch with one of the collaborators and I am sure we can arrange something.  

I mean there are some obvious ones, such as Part the Second, Fortunes Haze (by Look to Windward), and Cloudkicker's stuff.

*cough* Hey, maybe Anthony should be a Prog Reviewer! *cough* *cough*

Triceratopsoil wrote: Sleeping with the admins usually helps.  Ask Andy.

Keep at it.

But anway; what is this special thing about promotions anyway ? Your partner will just think you are a sad, sad loser and leave you for a 35 stones heavy coast-to-coast trucker. Let's keep the promotion aspirations to the army (which has several vacancies in Afghanistan..... sign up !) and our paid work careers. The grades in ProgArchives is just here to organise the substantial, very substantial workload here. Unless you are willing to put in at least 20 hours a week into ProgArchives (reviews and serious work. Not hanging out in the forums), don't even think about getting promoted. ProgArchives is a monster and it eats you alive.  

Don't fantasise about befriending a lion. Instead of having a dinner with it, you will become it's dinner. 

 

Edited by toroddfuglesteg - July 29 2011 at 01:12