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Tony R 
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 Posted: September 29 2009 at 16:26 |
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I thought that was what you normally did....  |
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Marty McFly
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Posted: September 29 2009 at 15:24 |
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It takes quite a lot of work to delete review, think about it, talk about it, gather evidence etc, than to write 100 words :-)
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There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless,"
-Andyman1125 on Lulu  Even my |
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Vibrationbaby
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Posted: September 29 2009 at 13:17 |
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I`m going to write a review of an album that I`ve never heard.
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Negoba
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Posted: September 29 2009 at 12:39 |
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I happen to think the review was an attempt at a bad joke on us as a site. Delete and move on.
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You are quite a fine person, and I am very fond of you. But you are only quite a little fellow, in a wide world, after all.
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LiquidEternity
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Posted: September 29 2009 at 11:39 |
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She's a witch! Burn her! ... Him!
And what also burns? More witches! Dang. I wish I lived in Salem during the witch hunting periods. Sounds like it would have been fun.  That said, the guy hasn't written me back and probably hasn't edited his review. I put my vote in in favor of deletion or moderator action. Even though I'd love to see Number Seven climb the charts a bit more, I'd really like to see it happen based on merit rather than fanboyism. I think it's just weird to see a review written like that out of the context of Dream Theater... |
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ExittheLemming
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Posted: September 29 2009 at 10:51 |
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I knew it ! Phideaux is the Great Beast, 666, the wickedest man in the world - Aleister Crowley
The game's up laddie, I mean Phideaux is just an anagram of: Up Hex Aid Chad is short for Charles which can also be Charlie (the cunning trickster !) an anagram of :Arch Lie That's as good as a confession in my book - Prepare the kindling.... |
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: September 29 2009 at 10:10 |
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Tks Epignosis, the fun thing is that if we take all the irrelevant comments about what he thinks of Phideaux in general and wide terms and how he thinks Prog Archives should value Phideaux (totally absurd because Prog Archives doesn't have an opinion about any artist, the reviewers do), the only relevant comment about the album in whis whole review is:
God, that review is a waste of valuable bandwith.
BTW: My god friend T, I disagree with editing reviews, I rather see a review deleted than touched (unless is absolutely necessary because a blatant gramatic mistake), because even a good edition, may change the general spirit of a review.
In this case, Mr Crowley's review is not worth the effort of edition.
Iván Edited by Ivan_Melgar_M - September 29 2009 at 10:11 |
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The T
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 21:57 |
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that's why the best way to proceed is to ignore any previous back history about this case and just do what has to be done in every similar situation.... Delete the review. Maybe PM the reviewer saying "Dear reviewer: your review was not so atrocious until the point when it sucked due to the insults and your blatant display of immaturity and minor stupidity. Please from this day one abstain of posting any more reviews like this unless you decide to eliminate the insulting parts and try to boost the few reasonable arguments your mindless self is attempting to generate. In a few words: review, and be e-published; insult, and be told to f**k off"....
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LiquidEternity
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 21:47 |
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Reviews like these are annoying. However, even more annoying, no offense, is the paint the guy as a stoolie for Phideaux. Any other album or artist, and chances are we've just got an idiot on our hands. With Phideaux, it's automatically a conspiracy? Just saying. Perhaps it is a conspiracy. Those are fun.
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Atavachron
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 20:57 |
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or Awake
yeah politics bites |
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The T
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 20:55 |
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Images and Words???!!
OK we're at war again...
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Epignosis
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 20:22 |
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Do we?!? Okay I do. Just not Images and Words or Train of Thought.  |
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The T
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 20:21 |
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Yes... Politics divide people after all... We both like DT!
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Epignosis
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 18:56 |
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And... I agree. You know, for a conservative and liberal, we agree an awful lot. |
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The T
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 18:52 |
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I agree with him, and I agree with you, which in the end also means I agree with me.. |
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Epignosis
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 18:46 |
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I completely agree Teo, but I think Ivan was merely pointing out that the review is basically crap. |
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The T
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 18:36 |
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No... editing the review is not a good idea... The review is insulting to other people.... It has to be deleted so that people who post reviews know they either write a decent review from the start or we will not be doing their job and making their reviews look more reasonable... delete the whole thing.... One thing is to edit reviews when there are errors in grammar or typing errors, that's understandable... but editing reviews when they were clearly written in an offensive way is giving these kind of people green light to post any kind of insulting review they want, after all, someone will be editing and making it look good in the end...
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Ivan_Melgar_M
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 17:27 |
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Lets follow Rico's instructions: Number Seven Phideaux  Crossover ProgReview by chdcrwl  It's about time Progarchives features one of the brightest and most promising young progressive artists of today. Althought previous featured artists were decent at best, they were not quite the leading light that Phideaux is without a doubt. Phideaux represents all of what is great about music in my mind. There are innovative melodic structures and *deceptively* simple musical structures, which make this music of Number Seven the best music of 2009, bar none. Obviously not everyone agrees as, amazingly, . Although I have only heard some of their samples, I guess that proves that there are many people who are not intelligetn enough to appreceate the music of Phideaux. Either that or they are just jealous of how talented and inovative Phideaux is. --Chad CrowleyDone 2.- plus the one to people's intelligence and power to comprehend Phideaux's album Number Seven Phideaux Crossover ProgReview by chdcrwl It's about time Progarchives features one of the brightest and most promising young progressive artists of today.. Phideaux represents all of what is great about music in my mind. There are innovative melodic structures and *deceptively* simple musical structures, which make this music of Number Seven the best music of 2009, Chad CrowleyThis is what we get...In other words...pure fanboyist crap, Iván
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Ricochet
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 13:21 |
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I'm with Rob. Cut out the references to Riverside, motw, Beardfish and everything else, which are totally unnecessary, plus the one to people's intelligence and power to comprehend Phideaux's album. Both do bring out rule #4 in some way. The first case practically opts to say "band x or its recent albums suck(s)" just to make a point that "the album in question is glorious".
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Logan
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Posted: September 28 2009 at 13:10 |
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I happen to think that that review, while not a good one, is acceptable.
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