Can somebody change of opinion?

A few days ago I listened to an album (Symphony X - The Damnation Game), and I realize that it´s not so good as a I remember, then I went to vote it. In the past I gave the album 3 stars, but now I want to give 2, but, surprise!, I can´t correct my vote because of my e-mail (obviously is the same that before). I think is ilogical. People's taste have an evolution. Today maybe we belive one thing and tomorrow another, the experiencie make us learn. The same thing happened with others albums, I can´t change my mind and I think is unfair. What can I do?

(Sorry for my poor english, I hope yo understand what I try to explain).

You have a good point there (and your English is perfectly understandable, you should hear my Spanish!!!).

In defence of the system, if people changed their votes all the time, the reviews and the charting system might become no good as reference to other people who might not know the artist at all (or at least not that well). That might make it more difficult to judge if the music was worth buying/downloading/performing.

 I guess the best way to deal with this is to bear in mind that your review is 'for ever' and to think hard about how you rate it.

The secret of all good reviews I hope!

sigod wrote: <!--[if !vml]--><!--[endif]-->You have a good point there (and your English is perfectly understandable, you should hear my Spanish!!!). In defence of the system, if people changed their votes all the time, the reviews and the charting system might become no good as reference to other people who might not know the artist at all (or at least not that well). That might make it more difficult to judge if the music was worth buying/downloading/performing.  I guess the best way to deal with this is to bear in mind that your review is 'for ever' and to think hard about how you rate it. The secret of all good reviews I hope!

Maybe you are right, but I don´t think that people will be changing their reviews all the time, I don´t do it. Anyway, althought your point of view is reasonable I'm still thinking the best, especially for people to know what is worth buying/downloable, is the possibility of change.In this way the reviews became more honestly and trustworthy.

Astaroth wrote: I think that people change their minds and should be able to change their ratings but ... It's easy to said it, but kind of difficult to implement (more work for the people on the site) or maybe they just didn't think about that.

I suposse that they have a mathematic form to do it, without more work.

It's a matter of fact that people can change opinions. In fact, in this kind of music which can evolve and grew up in us in a "special way"... it makes us to have an opinion in a specific period of time, and then it changes cuz my perception, thoughts, etc, have changed (according to the music)... you know...

So, i think the best way (if a system which we cannot change our ratings is not available) in rating music... is to be conscious of what we are doing, which means not to rate one album after listening to it the first time or even... within one month, you know.... the music has to grow on us... and then we can feel prepared to give a objective opinion about it... which i know is difficult, but we cannot be THAT subjective and give 5 stars to an album we love and we are conscious that it has has its failures. As the warning that appears when we wanna rate an album either with 1 or 5 stars... we have to be aware of an album we love can have some falures and the other way... when we rate an album with 1 star, we have to be aware that maybe it could have something good...

Well... If the "changing rates" is developt , i think it has to have a limit... for instance: We are able to change our rate for an album just one time.

Bye