Reviews: Error?

progismylife wrote:                                 Art Rock         (Studio Album, 1972)         Avg: 3.13/5         from 5 ratings                       FUSIOON — Fusioon     Review by pantacruelgruel     (Claude Robichaud)          Good, competent , but I'm kept searching for words to describe its' averageness without repeating myself until I hit the 50 word mark. To reveal the depths of uninspiration that this album brings to me, here goes PPPelease polease please please please please listen to some one two three samples. mp3s, song snatches, pieces bits, whatever before you buy, this is not bad stuff, just that you can find more worthy music to spend your money on               Posted Tuesday, March 20, 2007, 14:02 EST | Permanent link He is trying to reach the 50 word mark. Not a good thing to do I think. Maybe not deletion but a PM to the reviewer might be good.

Well, after reading his reviews on the undermentioned albums, I think he is trying to reach the 0 word mark.   

1. GG - Free hand
2. GG - The power and the glory
3. GG - Interview
4. GG - Octopus
5. GG - Giant for a day
6. Rush - Rush
7. PF - DSOTM
8. VDGG - Real time
9. and many more ...

What's wrong here? Is this an error or is this abuse?


Edited by Draconean - March 21 2007 at 12:55

I’m sorry if I wasn’t clear enough in my earlier post.

What I meant was this:

In several of the reviews by Pantacruelgruel there is no text present (see my list in my earlier post). But those reviews are classified as a “review”, not as a “rating”, so they should contain at least 50 words.
Well, I don’t like to jump to conclusions by reporting this immediately as an abuse. So I wonder what has happened to the text in the review. My first idea is that it has to do with some kind of error. For instance the text could have been deleted after submission of the review, or the text is still there but not visible on the web page (I know, that is also jumping to conclusions).

That’s why I posted this as a new topic in the “error/omission thread”.

But if there isn’t anything technically wrong with the reviews (and they intentionally contain no words), then it might be abuse and should be reported to the “reviews reporting thread”.

Indeed. Ratings without reviews are still allocated a review number. They are jsut omitted from the lists of reviews on the album pages.