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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 05:52
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

...not strange (really)
Maybe not.Tongue
I suppose I'm saying that if it was my site I would have informed my Admin boys and see if the could sort something out. Or at least so they knew. But  I'm not Max. And if I had been Ivan I would have informed someone in Admin about this situation ages ago. But I'm not Ivan.


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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 05:51
...not strange (really)
What?
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 05:26
^What...Admin were not informed? So how come Max didn't say anything but just deleted them. Also strange...
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Points: 37575 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 05:10
Why didn't you bring this to our attention weeks ago?
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Points: 4287 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 04:50
Ratings only will never be a good system. At first it sounds good, but some people are extreeme and its so easy to use it in ways not intended.
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Points: 32995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 04:37
^Can't disagree there Bob. But this guy seems very thin skinned. Better to be here than not, whatever the ratings I would have thought?

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Points: 15585 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 03:00
Another example of the downside of the "quick ratings" facility.Ouch
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Points: 763 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 02:32
His last album 20 Years After got fantastic reviews here. (I remember!! Many 5 star reviews!) It seems a bit drastic to just leave the site altogether as--good or bad--prog lovers will SEE the albums.

Every album has some 1 star reviews. EVERY. ONE. Even Close To The Edge, and I believe he lost many prog-goers that could've checked out the album from here. I, (and I'm sure many others) only refer to this site to check out the latest albums in prog.

As Triceratopsoil said, if a bunch of people are giving the album 1 star, they obviously don't like the album much. The raters obviously don't take the rating guidelines properly, as it should've been at least 2 stars for fans.

Anyways, it's too bad because he seemed to be quite liked on this site. Maybe he'll come to his senses later.
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Points: 17995 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 10 2012 at 01:26
Is it completely impossible that 20 people legitimately thought the album was rubbish?
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Points: 19535 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 09 2012 at 23:01
Some weeks ago I received a mail from Erik de Beer from Like Line Project.

The guy was really pissed, because apparently a group of guys who supported the band  Battlestation or Trascend  (According to him, not sure which one) and their later release started to give a 1 star rating to the latest albums by Life Line Project.

A relatively unknown band with few reviews and a decent rating , suffers if 20 trolls start to flood them with 1 star ratings.

He wanted to leave ProgArchives, I talked with him and his sister Dorinde, but the ratings without reviews continued.

Today I read a mail from him telling me that he had retired the band from PA, I believe M@X or an ADM deleted the band for him.

Sadly we lost them, being that the band is really good, they mentioned ProgArchives in their last 4 albums, and I consider Erik a friend, even when I don't support his attitude, but this could be the first one of several deletions if we don't stop the manipulators who want their favorite band to be the best  of the year.

Iván



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