Reviews reporting thread - Progressive Rock Music Forum

It's interesting that folks suspected which reviewer I was speaking of prior to my posting a link.

I guess there could be abusive posts, and there are poor quality, idiosyncratic, unhelpful, even useless, etc posts. The only area which I can think might approach the abuse level are the reviews which threw water on the reviews of others in various ways, though not by name.

woundedpig wrote:

I thought the review was linked.

I went back and perused several reviews before posting my rant, and sat on it for several days.

Here:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2739368

Poorly written I guess, I also disagree with what he states there.

But abuse?! I wouldn't say so.

His skill in maths is clearly as good as his skill in writing. 😜

Reviewer for The Progressive Aspect

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2777405

This review doesn’t discuss the music at all - just states historical facts?!?!?

eh...this review says next to nothing about the musical content of the release in question: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2786683

It´s more a tirade over the placement of the album on PA, which is just ridiculous to use a review for. This sentence is probably the only valid one if we are to think of the text as a review: "Also, I hate their version of the house of the rising sun.", and even that isn´t exactly an intelligent comment...but to each his own.

Based on this review he can actually write reviews which talk about the actual music: http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=2786517

Edited by UMUR - August 26 2022 at 09:25

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UMUR on RYM

Thanks Umur.

I've deleted at least one review of his before as I recall, and I will delete that one too (this is still preferably to the one I deleted actually).

Quoting so it doesn't disappear into the ether -- mostly in case the reviewer hasn't saved it and wants to seriously improve on it (I'm in the habit of saving those I delete regardless of the quality):

One star

"This is not a prog album. And that is ok. But having said this, we are at a prog site. And I rate the albums based on their potential to enrich a prog collection. Unless the genre attached to the group indicates it's not about prog. Oceans of Slumber are labelled as Extreme Prog Metal.
I just admit I never listened to the previous output of this band. But based on this record, they should be labelled differently. Something prog related.

Having said all of this, I find it a decent record. Nothing to write home about. I gave it multiple spins to form an opinion, but I will probably never return to it again.

I rate this 1 star. Because it's not prog at all. Also, I hate their version of the house of the rising sun."

I know this person has had quite a few problematic reviews, and I will review more of his reviews anon.

Just a fanboy passin' through.

Necrotica wrote:

Logan wrote:

"I rate this 1 star. Because it's not prog at all"

It's like we're back in mid-2000s PA LOL

Do we still have 'members' who insist on giving every Opeth release '5 stars' and every DT release '1 star' (or vice versa?) I think a fair amount of that needed to be weeded out back in 2005!

(also, keep in mind that my original account was from 2006-2007 timeframe, so I've been here for much longer than 2015)

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Hrychu wrote:

http://www.progarchives.com/Review.asp?id=28500

This review is generic, full of blanket statements, doesn't tell you ANYTHING about the album and it's too short.

How did this person even get a Prog Reviewer badge? xD

that's a bad one indeed, it looks unfinished LOL

I've noticed that in the early days of the site there were a good number of reviews that were short like this, even blurb-like, before standards were put in place for reviewers to write longer and better reviews.

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