Rating abuse in several artists albums

Then again, I think you are right. And I would like this not to be happening too, but again we have to face the eternal struggle between rules/guidelines and right to more or less free speech.

It's not right, yeah, but how do we prove it ?

sagichim wrote: It's me trying to knock it down.

sagichim wrote: Damn!!

Edited by Snow Dog - April 21 2012 at 12:50

Easy Livin wrote: sagichim wrote: sagichim wrote: No problem at all... http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=37464 Admins, are you doing anything regarding this person and his ratings? just wanted to know.   Thought you'd already decided that we're doing nothing.   sagichim wrote: We have all reported some rating fraud before, and i never saw an admin saying he's going to do something about it.

I PM'd a few of his alters and not one response. i guess its just a robot. How boring.

sagichim wrote: No problem at all... http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=37464

That list does look fishy, but it could be that he has a sibling, roommate, or friend with many of those albums, so that's why he heard lots of them.  I heard all of Rush's albums due to a friend who I shared a house with for six months -- and boy did I get really, really sick of them. It can be pretty difficult to avoid music in such cases.  And he offered me plenty of cash to trash my Bauhaus CD; instead, I yan and yang lumber punched him (go taste a tart and then eat my lunch).

I agree with a lot of his not Residents ratings, but damn, he should be shot (joking of course with the term) for these:

JEAN-CLAUDE VANNIER L'enfant assassin des mouches(rating only)
VANGELIS The Dragon(rating only)
VANGELIS Hypothesis(rating only) (amongst others)
TORTOISE Millions Now Living Will Never Die (rating only)
PIERROT LUNAIRE Pierrot Lunaire(rating only)
NEU! Neu! 2(rating only)
MAGMA Mëkanïk Kömmandöh(rating only)
KULTIVATOR Barndomens Stigar(rating only)
BJORN J:SON LINDH Cous Cous(rating only)
BJORN J:SON LINDH Från Storstad Till Grodspad(rating only)
BJORN J:SON LINDH Ramadan(rating only)
BJORN J:SON LINDH Sissel(rating only)
IL BERLIONE Il Berlione(rating only)
EMMANUEL BOOZ Le Jour où les Vaches... (rating only)
DAVID AXELROD Earth Rot(rating only)
JEAN-PIERRE ALARCEN Jean-Pierre Alarcen(rating only)
JEAN-PIERRE ALARCEN Tableau No. 2(rating only)


I don't buy that he's listened to  a lot of the ones he has rated, maybe briefly sampled them, and others he probably has never properly listened to.  And with Le Orme I noted that he rated lots with ones, but the ones he rated higher I agree with, and I would rate the same (best is Contrappunti for me as well as him).

His ratings of a particular bands' albums commonly do vary,.  And it did seem to me like he may going after a lot of little rated ones to bring sown the average.  Is he trying to manipulate lists? I don't know.

At least he likes UZ

But yeah, that looks pretty manipulative to me.  People don't understand that finding something not to your tastes doesn't mean it's sh*t.

Scratch the 'if you would like' next time, simply post the link and save us all some time (or send a PM to an admin with the link if you don't feel like putting it on the public forums). Awaiting the link now...

Blackbeard wrote: I have another idea for admins. I think he is a little bit kiddy, and likes to destroy and see the results. Maybe we can slow down his possiblities. A newly registererd user should only rate one album a day for a certain time. Or every user must be doing at least one review before he can rate (other) albums. Hopefully he gets bored by slow progression of his work of destruction.

It's not up to admins, it's a technical issue and up to a webmaster.

I don't think this idea of "at least one review" will be implemented ever - ratings without reviews are primarily here because of non-English-speaking people.

As for the "one rating a day" at the beginning, for what is worth, I like the idea, but I don't think the site owner do.