Rating Dilemma

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   ^ Yep is it just me Snowie that gets the impression 3 stars has become a sort of 'damning with feint praise' appraisal these days?

Poll Question: What would you do? Plead read explanation first.
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
X: re-rate and change 4-star albums to 5-star	0	[0.00%]
Y: give album a 5-star regardless of X	3	[30.00%]
Y: give album a 4-star	4	[40.00%]
Shoot yourself in your head.	3	[30.00%]
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ExittheLemming Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420	Posted: November 12 2010 at 04:23
	^ Yep is it just me Snowie that gets the impression 3 stars has become a sort of 'damning with feint praise' appraisal these days?

Snow Dog Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995	Posted: November 12 2010 at 04:20
	When I rate something 3 i also consider it good....very good actually, two stars is fair....not bad at all. Sorry this is no help for the OP


ExittheLemming Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11420	Posted: November 12 2010 at 04:12
	Comparing what you deem to be say, ELP's best album with that of say Crimson's best album, should allow for different results. I guess the problem here is akin to 'painting yourself into the corner of the room' when you dish out your first 5 star rating i.e. you compare the relative merits of every subsequent album to the first one. Over time you will come to realise that maybe a band's best album is not a bona fide 5 star 'masterpiece of progressive rock' after all. Just remember you are free to reappraise your ratings at any time and given sufficient numbers of ratings a balance will be established where only those rare and exceptional records garner 5 sparklies. For me, I think I rate really low in an attempt to avoid a surfeit of flawed 'masterpieces' and can't help but feel the 3 star rating has become viewed as 'ordinary' instead of what it should be i.e. GOOD but not essential.

Formentera Lady Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 20 2010 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 1840	Posted: November 12 2010 at 03:33
	I do not know if this is the correct place to post it, because it has a lot to do with music. Imagine the following situation: You feel so excited about the new possibility to rate albums on this page , you start rating all albums of your favourite artist X. You give the masterpieces of X 5-star, the near to perfect albums 4-star, the overall good albums but with weak moments 3-star, the albums not so good 2-star and the albums 'for completionists only' 1-star. So far so good. Then you proceed to your next favourite artist Y. You think: "Wow, this is Y's masterpiece, I'll give it 5-star right away." But then you think: "Wait! Do I really think that this album is better than the 4-star albums of X? No." That is too bad. So what would you do? 1. You re-rate the the 4-star albums of X and change them to 5-star, so you can give Y's masterpiece a 5-star, too (but you feel bad about it, because X has then too many 5-stars and it makes you look like a fanboy/-girl). 2. You give Y's masterpiece a 5-star and don't change X (and you feel bad about it, because you think this is not fair towards the 4-star albums of X.) 3. You give Y's masterpiece a 4-star (and you feel bad about it, because Y has then no 5-star album, but you think, they might deserve it.) This is the dilemma I am into. Can you advise me? Edited by Formentera Lady - November 12 2010 at 12:31