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Time Signature ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 7690 |
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Raff, I really love these expressions "the biggest flaw for the less than successful nature of this disc", "he album�s ill-judged mix", "mercifully, the band avoided overstretching themselves", "what is meant as the disc�s highlight", "somewhat uncomfortable listening on account of its amateurish sound", and "it is to be hoped that, for any future efforts, the band will try to get
a better producer, and also tighten up on the compositional aspect"... that's a really classy way of saying "this shit fails" ;-) I wish I had the ability to do bashing with such style and class ;-)
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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Thank you
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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Just found this on the ProgressiveEars forum:
http://www.progressiveears.com/forums/thread.asp?ForumID=1&TopicID=121186&posttime=7%2F14%2F2010+2%3A17%3A42+PM&private= The review in question is now on PA's front page. This is one of the reasons why we should pay a lot of attention to anything that is published here. People have eyes, and will comment on what they find around the web. Edited by Raff - 14 Jul 2010 at 4:27pm |
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rushfan4 ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors and Omissions Team Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 7485 |
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link didn't work for me.
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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It does for me, and I'm not even a member anymore (deleted my membership a few days ago - don't like cliques
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rushfan4 ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors and Omissions Team Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Michigan Status: Offline Points: 7485 |
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The DT punctuation one. I kept looking for that on the MMA front page and couldn't figure out why I couldn't see it, but I see now that you say PA's front page. I suppose it is only a matter of time before it finds the MMA front page.
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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Perhaps the people at PA should be told about that, but I'm not going to do it.
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UMUR ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors & Omissions Team / Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 18180 |
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I�m biased about it really! The very concept of MMA and PA is that everyone are allowed to post reviews and not allowing "certain" people to write reviews seems a bit hostile to me and goes against the spirit of the concept. On the other hand there are some reviews so badly written or auto-translated that no one but the reviewer himself/ herself is able to get anything out of them and those reviews might actually be harmful to the site(s). So are we going to be harder on the reviewers who don�t write understandable English ( the really badly written ones) here on MMA than they are on PA?
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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Unfortunately, PA gained a bad reputation in the prog world because of those unedited reviews. I believe ProgEars adopted the best solution: they have a person who is in charge of editing the reviews submitted by the site members. On a related note, I don't think it's a question of being a native speaker or not, or at least not always. Neither you nor I are (nor is Kim, to name another), and yet we write much better reviews that many native speakers who ignore the rules of punctuation and spelling.
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UMUR ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors & Omissions Team / Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 18180 |
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Maybe a review watchdog or two might be the solution. I�m not against that. As long as enthusiastic members are treated with respect. Guided and not scolded |
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Pekka ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 26 Mar 2010 Location: Helsinki Status: Offline Points: 1357 |
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http://www.metalmusicarchives.com/the-final-frontier--review.aspx?id=219027
I don't believe he has heard the album. I could complain about the writing style as well, could use a bit of editing...
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progshine ![]() Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 23 May 2010 Location: Poland Status: Offline Points: 513 |
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And... the official date is August 16, we should encourage illegal download? Cause is kinda obvious that this is not an official release.
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UMUR ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Errors & Omissions Team / Retired Admin Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 18180 |
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No we do not endorse illigal download, and until the official release date the review should be removed, unless of course, the reviewer have a promo copy.
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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OK guys, I've seen the review, and promptly PM'd Ovidiu, asking him to remove the review and repost it after the album's official release. If he doesn't, I'm going to delete the whole album entry (since here we can). We have to be very careful with high-profile releases like this one, and possibly avoid entering them in the DB before the official release date. Remember what happened on PA every time a well-known band released an album?
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Time Signature ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 7690 |
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What happened?
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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I deleted the entry, since even deleting the review the rating would remain. The album will be added again on August 16 - I have all the data saved in a Word document. Since we don't have access to a 'delete rating/review' facility, this was the only thing to be done.
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Time Signature ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 7690 |
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I figured that out :-) but what was it that used to happen on PA whenever a well-known artist would release a new album?
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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Tons of worthless reviews and either 5- or 1-star ratings (depending on whether we were dealing with worshippers or haters...). The Admins in charge of the reviews part of the site spent a lot of time deleting those unauthorized items, but no one would listen to us when we recommended not allowing the addition of the albums altogether.
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Time Signature ![]() MMA Special Collaborator ![]() ![]() Honorary Collaborator Joined: 04 Apr 2010 Location: Denmark Status: Offline Points: 7690 |
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Oh, so like really rabid fans would 5-star an album that wasn't out yet and that they probably hadn't even heard yet? That's a big problem, to be sure.
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Raff ![]() Forum Senior Member ![]() ![]() Joined: 25 Mar 2010 Status: Offline Points: 1006 |
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It happened all the time with Dream Theater... I remember, when Octavarium was due to come out, things got particularly bad.
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