Review Reporting Thread

Strictly speaking yes, since the music should be the foremost consideration (I personally enjoy Burzum on occasion yet have utter contempt for its creator). This really doesn't bother me though.

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Certif1ed wrote:

The Angry Scotsman wrote:

Up to them, but apparently there has been admittance of downvoting albums just to drive it down? Is this true or just an assumption?
Regardless. it is outright abuse, and for albums with few reviews a very low/high one can move it a bit.

Sadly it's true.

I PM'd another guy who wrote in his reviews that this was exactly what he was doing - he actually seemed to think it was a fair and reasonable thing to do.

I educated him, politely at first, then applied increasingly heavier lumps of concrete to my baseball bat until he gave in.

This may not be site policy, so I won't make a habit of it, but I'm very keen to send out strong messages to would-be abusers...

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I'm ok with it, I assume you didn't threaten the guy or anything and really, it shouldn't be tolerated since he admitted it.
Fair and reasonable? Erm Ermm

Edited by The Angry Scotsman - 26 Jan 2011 at 2:47pm

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The Angry Scotsman wrote:

Up to them, but apparently there has been admittance of downvoting albums just to drive it down? Is this true or just an assumption?
Regardless. it is outright abuse, and for albums with few reviews a very low/high one can move it a bit.

Sadly it's true.

I PM'd another guy who wrote in his reviews that this was exactly what he was doing - he actually seemed to think it was a fair and reasonable thing to do.

I educated him, politely at first, then applied increasingly heavier lumps of concrete to my baseball bat until he gave in.

This may not be site policy, so I won't make a habit of it, but I'm very keen to send out strong messages to would-be abusers...

The Angry Scotsman wrote:

When it comes to reviews I almost never point fingers, since we have diverse tastes and usually abuse is not really so, but I have noticed a good amount of .5 stars on popular albums. (EDIT: Never mind, you said the user has been PM'd)

Up to them, but apparently there has been admittance of downvoting albums just to drive it down? Is this true or just an assumption?
Regardless. it is outright abuse, and for albums with few reviews a very low/high one can move it a bit.

For now I think the weighting system is good. All our collabs have been fair, so while this site is young I'm ok with collab overkill to prevent abuse.

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Can you expand?

http://www.last.fm/user/colt2112

LOL, collab weight is totally Overkill. Pun intended.

OK so to prevent rating abuse Phil has now changed the rating weigthing to this:

20x rating for Collaborators/Admins
10x rating for 100+ words reviews (non collab)
1x rating for rating only (non collab)

There�s also been sent a PM to emersonbg where we voice our concern about his ratings.

When that is said, he hasn�t as such done anything illegal. He hasn�t stated anywhere that he rates low for the sake of it and he is entitled to rate any album in the database with exactly the rating he would like to. Just like you and I. That doesn�t mean we shouldn�t voice our concern when we find something suspicious, so please continue to report issues. Thanks.

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Time Signature wrote:

Downvoting for the sake of downvoting is, of course, unacceptable.

When someone explicitly states that this is what they are doing, then it's an abuse of the system to my mind, and the user should be banned (after reminders, warnings, etc) and all ratings/reviews deleted.

It's one thing to vote something low because you don't like it, which is fair enough, and another to deliberately try to frig the ratings system. Even if the votes don't count for much, the principle sucks.

Downvoting for the sake of downvoting is, of course, unacceptable.

So Master Of Puppets deserve 0,5 stars because it's overrated?!? I can agree but how can he explain that minutes after review he ranks something with 0,5 without even knowing what this album is. When I don't like any band I just don't vote for it, it's easy. I understand that every single user is important, but guys like this one should be banned immediately.