Reviews discussion

She has a Queen-inspired username.  Some of you have conversed with her.  

I respect the appreciation this reviewer shows for an under-appreciated album, but it would be nice if the review actually contained information about the music instead of just rebuttals to the claims of other reviewers.




Edited by Ambient Hurricanes - August 19 2012 at 22:41

My bad, it's now 22 reviews

EDIT: 25 which means half the extended front-page.

31..... Allright I'm gonna stop now, but this is perhaps a tad excessive.

Edited by Guldbamsen - August 23 2012 at 02:45

Guldbamsen wrote: What are our policy regarding reprints of reviews from other sites? I am on my phone now so sadly no links, but disregarding the quality of them, I counted 16 reviews from the reviewer named kluseba - all of them posted within a small timeframe. I used quite a bit of my time writing one for Haxan by Art Zoyd yesterday, and it is kind of irritating to have it kicked off the front-page by a tidal wave of prepared writings that originated from another site. Hell I could do the same thing, just not on a metal site, because I happen to prefer PA for all the groupies and free dope, and nowadays metal is something I obtain from food.

I'm pretty sure PA doesn't have a policy about reprinting reviews, as long as they're the author's own work.  Maybe a PM asking him to spread his reviews out in order to make room for others' would be helpful, but as far as I can see he's not breaking any rules.

No-one is ever gonna complain about a flood of  informative, considered and sincere reviews dominating the front page are they? As long as the reviews are the author's own work we don't have any issues with reviews from other sites appearing on PA and vice versa. By way of contrast, reviews that tell you nothing about the music, assume prior knowledge of Prog, contain no historical context about the prevalent musical climate and merely serve to propel the author up some risible league table of prolificness are a different matter entirely and have been debated ad nauseam on this site previously. You will never annoy people with a surfeit of quality work.

Conor Fynes wrote: Could anyone give some feedback on my reviews? Looking to improve, becoming a little strained with what I consider to be my fairly dry writing style- just not sure how to inject any personality into it.

Use adjectives like "corpulent" and "miasmatic" and "lugubrious" and nouns like "ululation" and "euphony." That should do the trick.

Conor, you write great reviews.....better than mine.  If you think they're too dry, write after partying

I discovered lots of new things from this LE ORME's "Felona e Sorona" review: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=854027.

Yeah, I read that one too, and my guess is that Caio, at times, enjoys being a tad excessive to generate a bit of controversy. Provocative is perhaps a better word for it Anyway, it's his opinion, and while I definitely don't share it, I think he's allowed to have it.

What else could he do:

Edited by tamijo - November 10 2012 at 16:12