Reviews discussion

tuxon wrote: [  I don't see any reason why ratings without reviews should be deleted.   I pretty much favor it above reviews actually. Certainly for a birdseye view of what an individual likes I have enough on 40 ratings of bands and albums that I know.   unfortunatly most people prefer to wright 40 reviews and leave the other 500 albums they know outside because they don't have the time or the need to write that review.   that's 460 albums that could have some meaningfull information added if only we were more openminded towards rating without reviewing.   of course a review is better, but for the site it would be better if we don't have all that many members with one or 10 reviews, that's not enough information to judge whether or not the reviewer is a trustworthy source of information and comparable to ones taste.   but i'm preaching to myself here, so why bother.

1. They give fanboys or hateboys an easie chance to alter the charts, it's easier to take al Yes, Genesis or Tull albums and give them 5 stars, while if a person is forced to write a review it's harder to justify the low rating.

100000 million aspects have not been taken into account, if you can't think of eleven you shouldn't even partake in the discussion (honestly it took me more than 30 seconds to find 10, so I might be on a limb here, though while witing this I have come to 32 reasons why this objection is ridiculous) ( totally honest i can't think of any reason, but that's because I totally think there should be no such arguments, and I can give arguments like assuming peopple intend wrong, but that's already 20 arguments when you twist the words a little around the possible perceptions)

1. We don't know if the person has in fact heard the album or just likes the band.

 do I even have to explain where this agument fails to even hit space..

1. Help visitors in nothing, a person who wabts to know something about Close to the Edge, gains nothing knowing I rated the album with 5 stars, it only means that I like it, but reading a review helps much more because the visitor knows why the reviewer gave the rating.

should I really give excamples of what it means when I give an album a 5 star rating, or when somebody else gives the same album a 1 star rating, how much imagination does one need to distinguish my taste from the taste of Oliverstoned (sorry Oliver choose you for most people will think our tastes are far apart (doesn't reflect on your taste which is impeccable))

1. Stars are a visual aid, the really important information is in the review.

truth there, a good review will provide at least info which helps explain the rating and with any luck it will say something meaningfull about the album.

I agree leave them because there are some honest persons that rate an album in an objective way, but we have to encourage the effort of the people who also make a review to support a rating.