Inappropriate Ratings

^ That sounds a little drastic and seems like it would weaken the database. What about this proposal.......Nobody can rate an album of the current year. They must review it. That way these people who give one album 5 stars and 20 other albums 1 star would have to justify in a review why they did such nonsense. After all, it is about the current years top album chart. In the second year it would be okay to commence the rating.

aapatsos wrote: User http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=43347seems to have buried all 2012 top releases - doubt if he ever listened to any of these

Yeah...agreed...

You asked how I know how many ratings we have. This morning a whole load disappeared and the whole chart changed. I looked to see what had happened. It is there to see how many we have. I was pleased. Very.  

Why?

Why are you so concerned? It's  a caching issue - the average is not calculated "live", on 38,000 albums and over 700,000 ratings that would be too much of an overhead on the server to keep recalculating the averages of every album continuously. After deleting 1000s of ratings (again) the numbers get screwy for a few days, it will sort itself out eventually.

Glad that you reacted like this.

Colin, before you report me here , let me say that my review of Corvus was really honest. I appreciate your quality as instrumentalists (especially Pasi and Yourself) but good music takes more than good playing. No hard feelings please.

I guess that if I came to give a great rating for a band that I'd been waiting for the new release from, I wouldn't think to give so many ratings to countless others at the same time. I would listen to , buy, consider albums and then review or rate one here and one there. That isn't what they are doing.
Don't worry. I only posted this as I thought it was the right thing to do.
I agree about the actual band of course.

Dean
What I see is that every single day they add 1 or 2 more 5s and 4s. they also add many to others. When I say many, I mean, one of those had added another 10 or 20 by the time I had posted here. Almost nobody is getting new ratings but for some reason, that one band never ever stop gettimng them. The numbers on all 3 albums are way way more than anyone else. If they have more fans than BBT and The Flower Kings, fine. The problem is the random but well planned ratings they drop on others. I'm not protecting our band at all. They have only dropped 2 or 3 on us but I thought it seemed wrong. It looks professional but still very obvious.
It was possible that it isn't getting picked up here. It isn't that Italian weird prob like the others. This is planned and won't stop till BBT are below them.
I doubt if it is the band because they are incredible. It is most certainly a plan of someones tho. record company? That would be my guess.

Oh well
Two more just got added to Anglagard. Ho hum. the first also found time to rate countless others.
http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=43718
http://www.progarchives.com/Collaborators.asp?id=43523
just thought I'd say.