Rating abuse??

omphaloskepsis wrote: Cristi wrote: Hrychu wrote: Bruno S is legit, even if some of his "remastered" concert uploads on YT are a little overcooked sound-wise imho. To be fair, hating on Dream Theater and Steven Wilson is a popular take over here. As for the Pink Floyd one bombing, I assume it's a way of protesting against Roger Waters' political antics. I'm playing Devil's Advocate perhaps, but not all people can easily separate the creator from the creation. Rating entire discographies 1 star is abuse, even trolling. The opposite (rating entire discographies 5 stars) is abuse, too. I'm amazed he continues to listen to bands he dislikes.

I can guarantee he hasn't listened to every album sufficiently to give them a 1 rating. I'd be surprised if he's listened to more than 1/3 at all.

Cristi wrote: Hrychu wrote: Bruno S is legit, even if some of his "remastered" concert uploads on YT are a little overcooked sound-wise imho. To be fair, hating on Dream Theater and Steven Wilson is a popular take over here. As for the Pink Floyd one bombing, I assume it's a way of protesting against Roger Waters' political antics. I'm playing Devil's Advocate perhaps, but not all people can easily separate the creator from the creation. Rating entire discographies 1 star is abuse, even trolling. The opposite (rating entire discographies 5 stars) is abuse, too.

I'm amazed he continues to listen to bands he dislikes.


Edited by omphaloskepsis - June 29 2025 at 03:27

At this point I'm not yet sure. Sometimes you can have a personal prejudice against certain bands and see their entire repertoire as consistently shіtty and worthy of not more than a 1 star. Not every PA user is an elaborate connoisseur wannabe critic. Some of us are not engaged enough to write reviews at all and others are just lazy slobs ready to just bulk onebomb the bands we can't stand. But that's not really abuse. You can't prove that those onebombs weren't connected to Bruno's genuine anti-Pink Floyd sentiment.

I think the only "okay-ish" way to fix such lazy ratings and possible abuse is to make the rating-only votes carry even less weight compared to the reviews or add additional rating-only weight privileges to the people who have written X number of reviews on Progarchives. But of course that's not doable. :v

Bruno S is legit, even if some of his "remastered" concert uploads on YT are a little overcooked sound-wise imho.

To be fair, hating on Dream Theater and Steven Wilson is a popular take over here. As for the Pink Floyd one bombing, I assume it's a way of protesting against Roger Waters' political antics. I'm playing Devil's Advocate perhaps, but not all people can easily separate the creator from the creation.

According to this user everything by Dream Theater, Porcupine Tree, Steve Wilson, and Pink Floyd is only worth a one-star rating.

https://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=15571

^ It's ok to just rate one's favorite releases and not bother with mediocre albums, but I really doubt that one could listen to tens of thousands of releases to end up with that many favorites 

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Edited by siLLy puPPy - April 12 2024 at 00:10

^ and ^^

He joined this site on 9/30/2021 and his last visit was on the same day so he just joined, quickly rated those, then left. I will delete them.

This user gives entire discographies either 1 star or 5 five stars. Weird... 

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