Reviews reporting thread

Hrychu wrote: https://www.progarchives.com/review.asp?id=3167475 Non-English review.

Homotopy wrote: Sub Rosa's last album is not an exception, e.g. the second-last has pretty ridiculous rating distribution, with a ton of 5-star ratings from bots: https://www.progarchives.com/album-reviews.asp?id=87973

Yep, huge amount of abuse and the 5 stars across Sub Rosa albums. It a bazillion Brazilian accounts to deal with ratings. Be so much easier if I were to just delete the albums. Dealt with. Will have to continue to keep an eye on the Sub Rosa pages.

Edited by Logan - March 25 2025 at 17:01

Sub Rosa's last album is not an exception, e.g. the second-last has pretty ridiculous rating distribution, with a ton of 5-star ratings from bots:

Already forgotten, seriously, I have memory issues.    And I make mistakes often enough. I'm getting too old to care unless it it is something really important.

Okay, then, I'm all for self-moderation.

That was intended as a joke. We also have rules against swearing. I have alerted you before, even very recently after removing a post of yours.

Edited by Logan - March 07 2025 at 13:05

AlanB wrote: But isn't there a rule that all reviews must be in English?

Yes, it is indeed a rule. I think the reviewer didn't read the rules before posting their review because they couldn't understand them. xd Ironic.

Thanks! I've even liked (or, to be precise, my kids especially liked it) the album itself, and gave it 4 stars.

^ Thanks, unfortunately such rating abuse can be all too common I will investigate more later. Yep, definitely lots of abuse with at least one rater creating lots of accounts to rate with 5's. Will deal with.

EDIT: That took a long time to confirm and delete as I wanted to be sure, so many ratings to go through and deal with. As it turns out, every 5 star rating other than uber-rater dannyb came from the same user. Some people go very, very hard on promotion and it often can end up reflecting badly on the band.

Edited by Logan - March 06 2025 at 03:49

Logan wrote: ^ That's a plus. Appreciate it if you mean that you will try to contact the reviewer. I find being direct and comprehensible a challenge currently. Thanks, Ken. Well, actually it kind of always is a challenge. I'm not very comfortable being direct commonly and as for being comprehensible, I've been told that I barely say a word that can be understood (I think the words themselves are fine usually, it's more how I string them together). I got hit with multiple COVIDs and flus (missed my boosters due to getting sick) and it has majorly affected my respiratory system. That is getting better slowly, but I feel like I'm in a fog all the time. And now I am barely sleeping. Not at all compos mentos and thus my depression has got worse. I am planning to go to California soon (my wife travels there now twice a month) and I think that should do me good.