Your opinion of the "new" reviews layout

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Henry Plainview wrote: floydispink wrote: So, I vote for positive. As I think although having some cons the active system works pretty fine and safe from trolls and nonsense reviews. Previously, the collab reviews were all at the top, so that covers your sifting thing, and we have a pretty good system for getting rid of trolls and incoherent idiots.

stonebeard wrote: rpe9p wrote: stonebeard wrote: If you are not a Collaborator, there is no reason in the current system to put effort into a review of an album if not for your own satisfaction. Your opinion otherwise is nearly worthless. Not true at all, I'll give you three 1.  because its fun 2.  to become a collaborator 3.  If you review albums that arent well known, then people will read your review   1. Is covered by "for your own satisfaction." 2. Being a prog reviewer doesn't carry much with it alone. You get recognized for your achivement, which makes you feel good ("for your own satisfaction.") Otherwise, it would make you a collab and have your review more visible, but that only matters now because of the hightened visibility of collab reviews. This problem could be null. 3. Not necessarily true, and even if so, that does not mean they won't think a little bit less of your review because it's not by a collab.   For the record, I was a collab for awhile when we first had genre specialists, but because of the questionable legal nature of streaming MP3s and videos (among other forum business) I decided to resign.

When I look at an album that has only 5 reviews and 4 are non-collaborators, you can bet I am going to read them.  People may think less of your review because you arent a collab, but often with good reason and you can convince them otherwise by writing something good.  I think the admins are just trying to make people's lives easier when searching for good reviews, just like members are trying to make people's lives easier by giving people a good review of the album.  I dont know what the old layout was like, but the current one is fine for me because I would want to look at the collab reviews first anyway

harmonium.ro wrote: I do look at members' reviews if I'm not satisfied with Collab reviews. They come second though (or they don't come at all in the case of albums extensively reviewed by Collabs). Should this be a negative or a positive vote?

I tend to agree with Alex here though I find I don't pay too much attention on the members reviews so much anymore, so the vote would be slightly negative from me...

ExittheLemming wrote: I have no knowledge of how data can be organised for manipulation on a website  but given that we can sort our own reviews into various formats from our member pages, could a facility exist where a visitor to the album pages might design their own preferred view i.e. to see all collab reviews or all member reviews by way of a drop down thingy ?

I am sure that one could store that preference with a cookie so that it applies to all pages you view, and I think that would be a good solution as well, although a little more labor intensive than just changing it for everybody.

Henry Plainview wrote: ExittheLemming wrote: I have no knowledge of how data can be organised for manipulation on a website  but given that we can sort our own reviews into various formats from our member pages, could a facility exist where a visitor to the album pages might design their own preferred view i.e. to see all collab reviews or all member reviews by way of a drop down thingy ? I am sure that one could store that preference with a cookie so that it applies to all pages you view, and I think that would be a good solution as well, although a little more labor intensive than just changing it for everybody.

Where's the difference? Never noticed. I'l lwrite one now and see if there's a difference.