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    Posted: March 15 2009 at 05:16
I have a suggestion. Maybe itīs been suggested before, but I couldnīt find anything about it.
 
In addition to having the 100 most prolific reviewers list on the frontpage, I think it would be helpful with a most prolific reviewers list per genre ( maybe the 10 most prolific???). Not necessarely on the frontpage but maybe on the genre pages. There are many genres ( more than 20) on PA and if I want recommendations I would like them from someone I know has listened to a lot of albums in a certain genre. Now Iīve been here about a year now and Iīm still learning who to ask. As a newbie on the site it was very difficult and looking in the 100 most prolific reviewers list for answers isnīt necessarely the best place to start. One guy might be very experienced in the symphonic prog genre but not in the progressive electronic genre and so on. I see lots of people asking for recommendations in the forum and thatīs a great place to be inspired but some people donīt use the forum and this might be a help to them. I know I would have used the feature before I started visiting the forum and itīll still have value for me today ( when someday I want to break into that progressive electronic genreBig smile).
 
What are your opinions about this? Good or bad idea? 
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Points: 22989 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2009 at 05:20
Excellent one! You have a cookie from me Smile

Edited by Swan Song - March 15 2009 at 05:21
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For what reason should this be a bad idea? Big smile

That's great and helpful indeed - similar to the collab page where your reviews can be seperated by genre ...


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Yeah I love that new feature. Thatīs what gave me the idea.
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Points: 12625 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2009 at 09:22
Interesting idea (and a good one I think) !

But does having experience in a genre mean that you will have similar taste with this prolific reviewer? I find at times that people with few reviews (or even ratings only) have similar tastes to mine, while folks with many reviews - well we differ on many albums. So they do not serve as my "guideline" as to what to get - maybe they could be used as a guide to what not to get?
I read other reviews in other websites, and from people who review many albums, and many times we differ in taste, so equating "prolific review writing" with "good advice to follow" isn't necessarily true.

So, it's not that the idea isn't good, it's just the assumption in its core doesn't necessarily hold up in all cases.
But again, it is a good idea cause it can serve many people looking for advice.


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A perfect idea for the more (semi-)'obscure' genres, where Team Specialists have devoted time to review many, different artists and works. And since we're going for a top 10, we'll have a mixture of Collab reviewers who delved into the goods of that particular genre and fans with a good affinity for the topic as well. I guess a lesser impact will have Symphonic and the Art Rock genre, perhaps the Metal genres too, because these are the most popular genres.


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Points: 3011 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 15 2009 at 09:37

I agree that equating "prolific review writing" with "good advice to follow" isn't necessarily true. But I know I used the prolific review writing list as inspiration when I first started coming here and it really helped me to find the some really interesting albums in genres I didnīt know much about. I didnīt ( and donīt) necessarily agree with the reviewers ( and have in some cases written reviews that stated the exact opposite of  what was said in the original review) but as a source for inspiration I think itīs a good idea.
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I'm thinking that I'm probably the guy that has reviewed the most RPQ albums. Would that count ? 
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Points: 46301 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2009 at 07:37
Originally posted by debrewguy debrewguy wrote:

I'm thinking that I'm probably the guy that has reviewed the most RPQ albums. Would that count ? 


Even stashing Hughes's reviews in a big basement, you'd still be second. LOLWink
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I had an idea that while you were down in the pie area of the graph, the hyper link in the table would not direct you to the genre definitions, but instead direct you to the list of reviews the writer wrote in that specific genre.
 
 
   >>> frigging pie graph that doesn't get printedAngryWink 
 
 
 
 
 
  Sub-genre Nb of reviews Avg rating
1 Jazz Rock/Fusion 418 3.44
2 Symphonic Prog 308 2.88
3 Prog Folk 307 3.33
4 Eclectic Prog 206 3.24
5 RIO/Avant-Prog 196 3.29
6 Prog Related 193 2.58
7 Crossover Prog 155 2.81
8 Canterbury Scene 141 3.34
9 Heavy Prog 137 2.99
10 Krautrock 104 3.26
11 Psychedelic/Space Rock 90 3.33
12 Proto-Prog 83 3.24
13 Rock Progressivo Italiano 74 2.91
14 Neo-Progressive 52 2.21
15 Progressive Electronic 50 3.34
16 Post Rock/Math rock 45 3.07
17 Zeuhl 33 3.58
18 Indo-Prog/Raga Rock 18 3.17
19 Various Genres 8 3.88
20 Progressive Metal 7 2.43
21 Tech/Extreme Prog Metal 4 3.00
22 Experimental/Post Metal 4 3.25
 
 
 
Hence either the pie graph's individual portion leads you to the genre's reviews the writer has done (so if you click the yellow portion 14 in my graph , you'll get a list of the pityful reviews I wrote in eo=prog.
 
OR
 
Going to the table next to it, you can get the hyperlink trhat leads to genre definition to give you the list of the reviwes
 
 
 


Edited by Sean Trane - March 16 2009 at 08:31
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Points: 7971 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 16 2009 at 19:13
Nice idea, but how about the people who have, literally, hundreds of reviews, like yourself and Sean Trane? Will those people stack such titles? Prog reviewer, specialist, prolific reviewer of X genre, moderator/admin . . . Soon there will be not enough room for an avatar, lol.TongueLOL
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Points: 4028 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 17 2009 at 01:18
I like the initial idea of  showing also the TOP REVIEWER in the sub-genre page !

I'll take notice of that !

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