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lazland
Prog Reviewer Joined: October 28 2008 Location: Wales Status: Offline Points: 13274 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 09:59 | ||
^ whilst I agree with you, Dean, that Max is probably not making shed loads of money from PA, I would not have thought that the running costs are that high.
In any business, the major cost is wages (or personal drawings/salary if you are a one man band). Max doesn't have to suffer that - he has a load of volunteers to do it for him, does he not? The ratings only system is a pain in the arse, simple as, and should be done away with. |
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Enhance your life. Get down to www.lazland.org
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ExittheLemming
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 10:00 | ||
Thanks David, much appreciated (me flying off the handle yet again) |
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Guldbamsen
Special Collaborator Retired Admin Joined: January 22 2009 Location: Magic Theatre Status: Offline Points: 23098 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 10:16 | ||
No problem - to tell you the truth I almost suspended him before I thought it through.
As for the whole ratings discussion, I too am in favour of dropping them altogether.
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 11:42 | ||
It's not completely speculation because during the infamous GoogleAd censorship fiasco M@X did say that the major operating cost is the server and bandwidth. When Andy and I pressed this further in the AZ he was more candid about the numbers involved, we were both surprised by the bandwidth used by the site. Obviously I am not at liberty to disclose any of that here. The running costs are not high, then neither is the income from advertisers. While most of us are happy to pay around $10-$20 per month for a broadband connection, those for are download bandwidth - a server has heavy upload bandwidth usage so the costs are considerably more than that. $300-$400 per month would not be unreasonable for the complete package. Please note that this is a for dedicated server and is not the same as the low-cost Web-hosting services you see advertised. Anyone can get the Alexa projections of what the site is worth in terms of monthly web-traffic off the interweb, all you need to do is search... given that those kinds of sites speculate maximum worth rather than average or net value then it is easy to see that the monthly income is not dissimilar to the possible monthly running costs. So yes Steve, the major cost of a business is wages - if this was a waged site then its costs would be more in-line with a comparable size business.
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timothy leary
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 12:04 | ||
What about members who are not good at writing reviews but are honest with their ratings? To take away their voice because of people who abuse ratings seem a tad extreme. It seems if you look closely most abusive raters have brand new accounts. They signed up to do damage. Why not make a waiting period of 6 months before you can rate an album or a certain time period which will discourage the abusers. I have seen abusers who were on the site for a week rate a thousand albums.
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 12:40 | ||
Simple Tim - one requires constant work for some poor sod and the other doesn't.
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timothy leary
Forum Senior Member Joined: December 29 2005 Location: Lilliwaup, Wa. Status: Offline Points: 5319 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 12:42 | ||
So are you saying a waiting period will not affect ratings manipulators?
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 12:47 | ||
It will have some effect but probably not that much. We've seen spammers set up accounts that lay dormant for months before they are used so I can't see manipulators being any different. Many of these guys are serial abusers anyway so a delay period isn't that much of a hardship if they have a continuous stream of accounts waiting to become active.
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twalsh
Forum Senior Member Joined: August 26 2014 Location: Vancouver, BC Status: Offline Points: 328 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 13:20 | ||
Ratings could probably be limited to Forum Groupies or even Forum Senior members. i bet this would eliminate the most egregious ratings abuses.
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More heavy prog, please!
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ExittheLemming
Forum Senior Member Joined: October 19 2007 Location: Penal Colony Status: Offline Points: 11415 |
Posted: March 28 2015 at 17:04 | ||
A rating only review, sincere or otherwise, contributes precisely nothing to the site. PA is at core, a music review site and archive of Progressive Rock and it's related artists, not a voting booth.
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Svetonio
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 20 2010 Location: Serbia Status: Offline Points: 10213 |
Posted: March 29 2015 at 00:56 | ||
What he said. However, after such limitations, all the comments that may lead towards an "investigation" on the reasons why & how people are rating the albums - that must be banned. I mean, this is assuming that there will always be some comments that decried how "balefully" was rating did by someone else and in the case that only the PA' Senior members (and Collaborators & Admins) are allowed to rate, that kind of the comments ought to be removed from the forum promptly; of course, with a warning to those who post such a comments. Non-English speakers who maybe really want to (only) rate the albums at PA, they can reach that senior member status for example by going to the polls and doing even a copy/paste of the name of some at the poll listed band / album and to post it in the polls threads though they will not be able to vote in the poll 'til they are reached the status of senior members. Indeed, there is no better solution than what twalsh suggested.
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Dean
Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575 |
Posted: March 29 2015 at 01:22 | ||
You can only become a Groupie or Senior Forum Member by posting on the forum. This means that non-English speakers would be excluded from rating-only, thus removing the only justification for having the feature at all.
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driftingsun
Forum Newbie Joined: January 24 2015 Location: Dorset, UK Status: Offline Points: 28 |
Posted: March 29 2015 at 10:46 | ||
What do you see, earlyprog? You sound angry :)
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Kati
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 10 2010 Location: Earth Status: Offline Points: 6253 |
Posted: March 29 2015 at 23:36 | ||
Well signing in for PA (a reputable site) makes it harder for people to make fake ratings, I only recently discovered that one does not need to sign up to rate an album, hahaha this is insane and I feel bad for the admins now really it must be a nightmare for the admins to decipher between real ratings or not any other site one at least needs to sign in via email of social network, no wonder PA has rating problems hehehehe it's your own fault, deal with it
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Kati
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 10 2010 Location: Earth Status: Offline Points: 6253 |
Posted: March 29 2015 at 23:58 | ||
Lazland, hello! You very, VERY, clever smoochie! We both agree here that M@X makes very little revenue on PA and that collabs are eager to help out this site, to develop and carry on, it's all for the love of moozik and this is priceless. One thing we all have to agree is that M@X was a pioneer before (and after to be honest) there was nothing quite like P.A. Beyond the database PA has become a major prestigious site to join or be part of inc. for bands. I salute M@X very much, however I also know that google pays very little thus income is almost none unless we get more traffic through here because being prestigious means nothing, they don't care all they see is numbers, if one cannot get the numbers, we best get sponsors and that is a pop up adverts etc nightmare really.. A massive big hug to you, my sweet hot clever Lazland
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earlyprog
Collaborator Neo / PSIKE / Heavy Teams Joined: March 05 2006 Location: . Status: Offline Points: 2086 |
Posted: March 30 2015 at 03:54 | ||
Errrrr, didn't see that coming. I thought I could just sit back, relax and read the new posts without further interaction. I have long forgotten the contents of past posts. However, I do seem to remember mentioning Drifting Sun, driftingsun I may also have missed if anyone has proposed that eligibility to post an album review should require a minimum of say 25 yearned points on PA in which case you, driftingsun (24 points at the time of posting this), would still not be able to post an advertisement for an album, which probably was the first you did upon arrival at this site. But thanks for contributing beyond that.
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Kati
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 10 2010 Location: Earth Status: Offline Points: 6253 |
Posted: March 30 2015 at 04:15 | ||
I second all you said, Dean, in defense about M@X and PA (besides that M@X looks like Harvey Spector from SUITS, aka hot) all this said he was the pioneer and to date no site is parallel to PA. Hugs
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Kati
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 10 2010 Location: Earth Status: Offline Points: 6253 |
Posted: March 30 2015 at 04:22 | ||
Cooee! No Maxfax is not helping quite the contrary, imagine if you would get a msg saying "review my album, give me your email address, with the audacity not to leave their contact or real name" It's rude obnoxious and spam pure and simple clearly and not related to the band. this band has had so much going against them hahaha sorry for laughing but really lol hugs
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Kati
Forum Senior Member Joined: September 10 2010 Location: Earth Status: Offline Points: 6253 |
Posted: March 30 2015 at 16:05 | ||
errmmm in term of fan boys reviews "girl here" I do not think anyone would disagree that mine are most sincere, also mainly due to my reviews being so long, I doubt anyone would critique it considering that they probably would have fallen asleep halfway reading it anyway hehehe evil grin hihihi
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driftingsun
Forum Newbie Joined: January 24 2015 Location: Dorset, UK Status: Offline Points: 28 |
Posted: April 02 2015 at 11:51 | ||
Hi earlyprog
I didn't post reviews of my albums actually, but hey :) |
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