Inappropriate Ratings

omphaloskepsis wrote: progaardvark wrote: Album release date is September 15. Currently has three 5-star ratings... https://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=81266 You can buy the triple album box set now. They've sold over 200-300 sets.  Miami Scot got a download of the entire triple album, did a video review, and gave it 5 stars.   They plan on releasing separate vinyl/CDs -back to back- over a few months in the Autumn.  You can pre-order the first vinyl/CD from Laser. Although it's an unusual way to do it...I think it's legit.

http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=63560

Somebody here really hates Vylet Pony. xD I'm guessing it's another one of those "Grow up! Cartoons are for little kids! Avant Kraut-Zeuhl FTW!" type boomers.

omphaloskepsis wrote: Hrychu wrote: http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=63560 Somebody here really hates Vylet Pony. xD I'm guessing it's another one of those "Grow up! Cartoons are for little kids! Avant Kraut-Zeuhl FTW!" type boomers. I don't think he likes Zeuhl. At least he doesn't like Magma.  All one stars for Magma.  I listened to Monarch of Monsters.  Not my cup of tea.

Hrychu wrote: omphaloskepsis wrote: Hrychu wrote: http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=63560 Somebody here really hates Vylet Pony. xD I'm guessing it's another one of those "Grow up! Cartoons are for little kids! Avant Kraut-Zeuhl FTW!" type boomers. I don't think he likes Zeuhl. At least he doesn't like Magma.  All one stars for Magma.  I listened to Monarch of Monsters.  Not my cup of tea.   Yeah. However, bulk 1-bombing an artist's entire discography like that looks suspicious af and reeks of some sort of arrogance to me. I would probably 'buy' that (or at least play devil's advocate) if it was some well established "love it or hate it" prog rock act, like Dream Theater or Steven Wilson. But Vylet Pony was added to the database very recently.

^ Okay, I will do that for you. TERRY RILEY's A Rainbow In Curved Air got five stars from me, by the way.

^ Yes, you're right. All accounts made in a short time-span, all five are the last that rated the album, all IPs from the Philippines, and all with the same patterns and kinds of one or five star ratings, which actually don't make any sense (red herrings). I batch deleted the ratings for each of those accounts. Thanks for reporting.

Will do, unfortunately I have had to deal with ratings by the same user/bots whatever before today. It can take a long time to delete accounts and batch ratings. Recently I spent hours taking care of that in one go. Incidentally, I wish it was harder to register and rate albums. It can seem that we are almost as lax with allowing ratings as some places are with gun control.

Edited by Logan - April 09 2025 at 13:24

^ It's terrible abuse that I did not get around to finishing earlier when it came to another album (or albums( that was reported (same abuser). I started banning accounts, there are potential issues with deleting accounts, and then I have batch delete the ratings. It can be time consuming dealing with such things. I wish that ratings only were given zero weight, especially for new accounts.

EDIT: Got through spam cleaning lots of accounts, and batch deleting ratings, by the user using a Philippine IP. Ton of abuse, and this user had been active since at least 2016 but got really busy lately with multiple accounts.

Edited by Logan - April 10 2025 at 18:22

^ It should adjust to the state of the current existant ratings.

EDIT: At least I might think so without another rating coming in, but I should not assume it happens automatically.

Edited by Logan - April 10 2025 at 19:43