Rating abuse??

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.

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

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 - 9 hours 25 minutes ago at 03:27

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.