Collaborator status

Kati wrote: Dean wrote: Kati wrote: Many members have been issued a collaborator status due to their contributions i.e. reviews and/or posting actions. This is well deserved.  Besides all this, collaborators on PA should have the best interest when it comes to this site in mind,thus I suggest that there should be a method that all bands added on here to PA should thereafter have at least one review written by a collaborator. All collaborators should be in the running to be selected to write a review at any given time for the sake and benefit of this site.  This is not about egos or divas, it's about the best interest of P.A.  Nope. It's a noble idea but impossible to administer, just as it is impossible to expect that the person who initially suggested the band should also contribute a written review for their nominated artist, (though if there is someone who should, then surely the person who was so desperate for the bands to be added should contribute more than a 5-star rating... but maybe that's just me who has such expectations).  Adding bands by collaborator teams is an impartial endeavour - the teams do not have to like a band or any of their albums to add them, so forcing them to then write a review could be counter-productive and detrimental, so that leaves putting out a general call to all collabs in the vague hope that one of them will be sufficiently motivated... and if no one is, what then? We force someone? That ain't gonna happen either. Dean you are being very snotty right now, the question here was about bands who are added here on PA however don't get reviewed.

I am a nincompoop and I very happy one at it too! I too am one to admit that sometimes ideas do not necessary are as good as I thought they could be. I am always open to discussion and this time I admit my suggestion has to many flaws really  arghhhh.... I changed my mind now. 

Kati wrote: Dean wrote: Kati wrote: Many members have been issued a collaborator status due to their contributions i.e. reviews and/or posting actions. This is well deserved.  Besides all this, collaborators on PA should have the best interest when it comes to this site in mind,thus I suggest that there should be a method that all bands added on here to PA should thereafter have at least one review written by a collaborator. All collaborators should be in the running to be selected to write a review at any given time for the sake and benefit of this site.  This is not about egos or divas, it's about the best interest of P.A.  Nope. It's a noble idea but impossible to administer, just as it is impossible to expect that the person who initially suggested the band should also contribute a written review for their nominated artist, (though if there is someone who should, then surely the person who was so desperate for the bands to be added should contribute more than a 5-star rating... but maybe that's just me who has such expectations).  Adding bands by collaborator teams is an impartial endeavour - the teams do not have to like a band or any of their albums to add them, so forcing them to then write a review could be counter-productive and detrimental, so that leaves putting out a general call to all collabs in the vague hope that one of them will be sufficiently motivated... and if no one is, what then? We force someone? That ain't gonna happen either. Dean you are being very snotty right now, the question here was about bands who are added here on PA however don't get reviewed.

Sonia, writing a good review is very hard work, even if you're writing in your native language. I got burned out several times in the past because of the pace I was keeping. Now I am starting to get back into the business, but in the first few months of this year I sometimes was unable to write a coherent post - let alone a full, 800-word review. Life does have a habit of getting in the way of the things we enjoy, and stress normally does not have a positive effect on inspiration.

I'm with Dean on this one, I don't particularly like writing reviews as I find it hard to translate my feelings into words sometimes. It's easier if I really like or hate an album but not if it's a middle of the road 3 star one.

I still think and believe that Lucas review was mishandled with a lack of consideration in a very insensitive manner tho'.

Edited by Kati - October 02 2015 at 08:10

Dean wrote: Kati wrote: I still think and believe that Lucas review was mishandled with a lack of consideration in a very insensitive manner tho'. You guys are certainly not the most friendliest bunch are you? I am used to this fact but this latest action even shocked me.   Here's some free advice: calm it down or keep it to one thread. Why sour this one with a completely unrelated comment such as this? But since you have and since you persist in running-down the work that people do here: Could it have been handled differently? Yes. Would the outcome have been any different? No. Could Lucas have approached it differently? Yes. Would the outcome have been any different? Yes.

Dean wrote: Kati wrote:  I do not need your advise and do not patronize me.  Advise is the verb, advice is the noun.

I just wrote a review! 

Padraic wrote: I just wrote a review!

And a very nice one too!