5 star reviews???
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Topic: 5 star reviews???
Posted By: alias10mr
Subject: 5 star reviews???
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 12:29
| I've noticed a great many five star reviews in PA. In the guidelines section we're told to give these sparingly ( And rightfully so ! ). Masterpieces are rare and should be the defining moments of a genre. Don't get me wrong, I'm not trying to be arrogant and criticize people's reviews. I'm just questionning the rating system ( even if this is a subjective thing...). |
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Posted By: Philéas
Date Posted: October 02 2006 at 12:33
| I'm with you. There are way too many five star reviews, and many of them only gives five stars, with little motivation for the rating. I think we ought to make it harder to give five stars to an album. I have no idea how it would be possible, but I feel it's needed. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 02:44
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Many of those 5* ratings come from more ancient times, but some are obviously still coming. Trouble is that mailto:M@X - M@X wants those unreviewed rating to remain.
This is partly why I never look at those PA Top lists >> they have been skewed a long time ago by fanboy. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: MikeEnRegalia
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 02:55
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The database contains thousands of ratings, and people are using various schemes ... enforcing *one* schemes for new ratings will not "repair" the old ratings. I think it's best on any website with any rating scheme to just show people how many steps there are, and leave the rest to them. The only thing that happens when you try to enforce "guidelines" is that people will "pollute" their reviews with instructions on how to interpret their ratings (how they differ from the guidelines). ------------- https://awesomeprog.com/release-polls/pa" rel="nofollow - Release Polls Listened to: 
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Posted By: Australian
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 03:18
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I try to give them out fairly. Of my 74 reveiws 13 are five stars. ------------- 
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 12:52
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I think the problem could be in part solved allowing reviewers to graduate their vote as for example:
*** + 1/2 or 3/4
Pure 5 stars will be easily and immidiately reduced.
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Posted By: Ricochet
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 12:55
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This has been discussed. Unless it is a clear fanboy-ism or a blurr argument, you can't blame someone for their ratings. Regardless of being a five stars or a one star. Simple.
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Posted By: Andrea Cortese
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 12:59
It has been already discussed but not even tested. Simple.
 BTW, as I said, the problem would be IN PART solved. Think it's worth one's while.
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Ricochet wrote:Posted By: OpethGuitarist
Date Posted: October 03 2006 at 13:01
ive always liked this idea many of my reviews would have it, as I usually only give 3 stars and above, which makes it really difficult to differentiate albums ------------- back from the dead, i will begin posting reviews again and musing through the forums |