Rating System concern

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I've noticed a user that has over 6,500 ratings below de 15/100 mark. I believed it was kind of annoying at first but when I saw he rated albums which havent even come out yet, I realized he is just fucking with the rating system.

Is there any way to control this kind of behavior. I tend to look at the overall ratings before I decide if I check an album or not, but the newer albums get killed with this ratings. Not inferring you cant be allowed to give 10/100 to an album, but when 80% of your ratings are below this, something is wrong.
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meruizh wrote:
I've noticed a user that has over 6,500 ratings below de 15/100 mark. I believed it was kind of annoying at first but when I saw he rated albums which havent even come out yet, I realized he is just fucking with the rating system.

Is there any way to control this kind of behavior. I tend to look at the overall ratings before I decide if I check an album or not, but the newer albums get killed with this ratings. Not inferring you cant be allowed to give 10/100 to an album, but when 80% of your ratings are below this, something is wrong.


I think ratings ought to be normalized to account both for trolls and for people's differing arbitrary valuation. But that'd be a rather large change to the current system.
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Defago wrote:
I think ratings ought to be normalized to account both for trolls and for people's differing arbitrary valuation. But that'd be a rather large change to the current system.

or we could just ban platus and get it over with
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dividesbyzero wrote:
or we could just ban platus and get it over with


But but mah general statements
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I noticed this and pm'd the person and they said it was a way of keeping track of stuff they intended to listen to (the 10/100, at least). I dunno 4,000 albums is probably a lot to get thru but maybe they weren't trying to game the system? Can a single low rating on an album really effect the overall score all that much?

I probably have a sort of opposite problem, I'm way more loose with my 100s than most people seem to be, and the less I like something the less incentive I have to quantify it or remember it's name so my scores are mostly very high. But it's really coming from a sincere place tho, once I hit a certain threshold of enjoyment, quantifying that enjoyment just feels impossible.
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secretdad wrote:
I noticed this and pm'd the person and they said it was a way of keeping track of stuff they intended to listen to (the 10/100, at least). I dunno 4,000 albums is probably a lot to get thru but maybe they weren't trying to game the system? Can a single low rating on an album really effect the overall score all that much?

I probably have a sort of opposite problem, I'm way more loose with my 100s than most people seem to be, and the less I like something the less incentive I have to quantify it or remember it's name so my scores are mostly very high. But it's really coming from a sincere place tho, once I hit a certain threshold of enjoyment, quantifying that enjoyment just feels impossible.


Shouldn't they use their wishlist instead of rating it absolutely?
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secretdad wrote:
I noticed this and pm'd the person and they said it was a way of keeping track of stuff they intended to listen to (the 10/100, at least). .


I have a custom chart for that purpose, but I guess it depends on rank (and how much you have to listen to). Maybe a mechanism for creating a "To Listen" list would be a good addition, though.

EDIT: Oh, I haven't tried the wish list feature actually. Will do that.
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Nobody should be using the rating system for any other reason than to rate albums. Using the wish list is the recommended/intended way for people to track albums they are interested in, but using a custom chart is not a bad alternative. People have been banned for trying to game the site in the past and their ratings removed as the site has to be kept as clean as possible for the benefit of everybody else.
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albummaster wrote:
Nobody should be using the rating system for any other reason than to rate albums. Using the wish list is the recommended/intended way for people to track albums they are interested in, but using a custom chart is not a bad alternative. People have been banned for trying to game the site in the past and their ratings removed as the site has to be kept as clean as possible for the benefit of everybody else.


So can you just ban platus and LosWochos?
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nachosbob wrote:
So can you just ban platus and LosWochos?


LosWochos is a good guy, no?

I think there's a user called danwright252 who joined a month or two back and rated a few hundred albums 10 or 15 out of 100... wouldn't mind seeing those ratings deleted, tbh.

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