List manipulation?

If it is Motorpsycho fans, this matter should not be reported to the Pa Admins. It should rather be reported to the local mental hospitals and the Gandalff's should be taken care off by them.

Get their addresses and send out ambulances. 

Half-joking..........

DisgruntledPorcupine wrote: Epignosis wrote: harmonium.ro wrote: Three Gandalf-related  accounts are now active trying to push up this album: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=27414 Here are the suspicious accounts: Gandalfs Mother Gandalfino Gandalff Can their IPs be checked? If that's one person manipulating ratings, he's doing a piss-poor job.  Plus, these three accounts have join dates in three different years. They aren't manipulating. They're different people.

Yes, we established that nearly 5 months ago.

Uros Krunic wrote: namorthac, tluchies, guisbert, flapmobiel87. These guys have just registered only to give 5 stars to album Excavation Of The Mind by Sky Architect. flapmobiel87  is even giving low ratings to albums that are competition to Excavation Of The Mind.

I've deleted flapmobiel87 & flopmobiel87 as they are obviously the same person - cant really say whether namorthac, tluches or guisbert have done anything wrong.

I saw that, indeed, but I think it's worth a short check up. 

Three Gandalf-related  accounts are now active trying to push up this album: http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=27414

Here are the suspicious accounts:
Gandalfs Mother
Gandalfino
Gandalff

Can their IPs be checked?

Zitro wrote: And what Logan is saying continues and Magma keeps falling down.

  I though Magma just flows down and burns anything that gets in its way.


Edited by Slartibartfast - April 02 2010 at 09:51

^ Martin,

We can rate as we want to, as long as it makes sense. Having average of 2.5 just from 1 & 5 stars isn't right and certainly breaks the rule about "not everything you like is masterpiece and there's something good on album you want to drown with 1 stars".

So if it looks "normal", there's nothing bad with that. What's normal ? Well, here, admins must use common sense. But I'm glad that mostly, admins investigate it, evaluate results and there are no forced acts, nobody is insisting on deleting them. Mostly. Just in the most "fishy" cases.

Does someone come to PA only to give just one album from a corner of the world a * rating? Really? Maybe it has to do with the fact that the particular album is "too high" in the genre top albums list...

http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=13267&listreviews=&showall=true#reviews

These guys do manipulation or at least they're not really following the guidelines:

http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=23134&listreviews=&showall=true#reviews
http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=11600&listreviews=&showall=true#reviews
http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=4843&listreviews=&showall=true#reviews

In this case I don't believe that it was because of a belief that an album was being too highly rated as purely an attempt to get an album into top position by raising its ratings while knocking down the competition.  I question if E-Re was even listened to.  While at least one five star review was removed, I believe, of Down and Out, that person also rated without reviewing multiple times the same album and then gave multiple lower ratings to E-Re (that one star ratings were being avoided to make it less obvious and because one stars were being deleted before shows some cunning).  Perhaps if said person. or people, had listened to E-Re, then they would have reviewed it to have more of an effect (though I wouldn't put it past such people to plagiarise other people's reviews or BS one's way through a review even if they haven't heard it).

Edited by Logan - December 17 2009 at 18:37