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 Post subject: Why Are The Reviews Being Ignored?
PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:00 am 
Over the past few months the reviews have steadily gotten less and less attention from those that post here? Why is that? In the past month we've covered the following styles:

Dark Ambient Drone
Progressive Metal
Heavy Doom Rock/Thrash
Symphonic Death/Black/Power Metal
Melodic Death Metal
Melodic Rock
Heavy Metal
Pagan Black Metal
Bombastic Heavy Metal
Sludgy Stoner
Thrash Metal
Operatic Progressive Power Metal
Stoner Doom
Melodic Hard Rock
Black Metal
Progressive Death Metal
Old School Metal/Metalcore
Melodic Rock/Metal
Some Kind Of 'Core :lame:
Early Minimalism/Phase Music
Technical Death Metal
Melodic Hard Rock
Instrumental Avant-Garde Rock
Epic Instrumental Rock
Ambient Metal
Death Metal
Hardcore Death Metal
Motorhead Metal
Modern Rock/Metal
Progressive Metal
Metalcore
Melodic Hard Rock/Party Rock
Experimental Vocal/Noisy Ambient
Power Metal
Black Metal
Funeral Doom
Classic Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal
Heavy Metal
Black Metal
Heavy Metal
Speed/Thrash Metal
Avant-Garde Metal

What's not to your liking? Obviously the forum doesn't accurately reflect who reads the reviews, but I find it odd that so many reviews have none, or just a few, replies from those on the forum. Is this forum getting too far away from music discussion?


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 8:15 am 
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I always look through all the reviews, but since I don't own any of them I never really have much to contribute to discussion on them...


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 9:55 am 
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Not any stuff i own or have heard of. Too much shit really. And no one else comments, so no real conversations start in those threads.


What we nee is more bm reviews :dio: JOKE!


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:26 am 
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chillax d00d it seems like the reviews are getting fairly steady traffic to me.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 11:30 am 
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I usually want to hear the album before making any comment. Otherwise all I would say is, "Nice review Ken, I'll be sure to get this," or "Good one Ken, I liked the samples I'm off to find more of what they have to offer."


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metalNESS wrote:
I usually want to hear the album before making any comment. Otherwise all I would say is, "Nice review Ken, I'll be sure to get this," or "Good one Ken, I liked the samples I'm off to find more of what they have to offer."


Basically the same here, I dont get new albums until months after they are out. I realize its not just new albums being reviewed as well, but most of the time its an album or band Ive never listened to before, and I dont really like samples all that much, I really like to be able to take in an album before making serious comments about it.


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metalNESS wrote:
I usually want to hear the album before making any comment. Otherwise all I would say is, "Nice review Ken, I'll be sure to get this," or "Good one Ken, I liked the samples I'm off to find more of what they have to offer."

+1

Maybe more archive reviews would get the chizzle chazzle on the up and up.


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I echo the sentiments of everyone else. I read just about every review that is posted here, time permitting, but I can't pick every album up as soon as it comes out. If I don't own something, or haven't heard it for myself, I can't likely comment on it.

Make no mistake though, I appreciate the work you guys do, and countless things go on my "To Buy" list because of this site.


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:18 pm 
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My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]


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PostPosted: Tue Sep 05, 2006 4:33 pm 
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My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:

Anyway, as long as people are reading them, that's cool. It's not like we need validation from the forumite, you know? I just wondered if this board was becoming less about music and more about, well, all that other silliness that goes down here.


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Eyesore wrote:
afeigel wrote:
My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:


HAHAHA!! No, I don't plan on committing e-suicide. I personally don't mind if my reviews don't get commented on, but when they aren't even viewed, that kinda sucks.


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afeigel wrote:
Eyesore wrote:
afeigel wrote:
My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:


HAHAHA!! No, I don't plan on committing e-suicide. I personally don't mind if my reviews don't get commented on, but when they aren't even viewed, that kinda sucks.


I don't know about everybody else, but I read it. The thing is, I access the reviews from the front page, and not the forum. I don't think the forum counter would keep track of people viewing it from the front page.


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Eternal Idol wrote:
afeigel wrote:
Eyesore wrote:
afeigel wrote:
My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:


HAHAHA!! No, I don't plan on committing e-suicide. I personally don't mind if my reviews don't get commented on, but when they aren't even viewed, that kinda sucks.


I don't know about everybody else, but I read it. The thing is, I access the reviews from the front page, and not the forum. I don't think the forum counter would keep track of people viewing it from the front page.


Ah, a good point there, I hadn't thought of that.

Change that :sad: from a couple of posts ago to a :)


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afeigel wrote:
Eternal Idol wrote:
afeigel wrote:
Eyesore wrote:
afeigel wrote:
My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:


HAHAHA!! No, I don't plan on committing e-suicide. I personally don't mind if my reviews don't get commented on, but when they aren't even viewed, that kinda sucks.


I don't know about everybody else, but I read it. The thing is, I access the reviews from the front page, and not the forum. I don't think the forum counter would keep track of people viewing it from the front page.


Ah, a good point there, I hadn't thought of that.

Change that :sad: from a couple of posts ago to a :)

I do the same as EI, that way you know what the new ones are


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I, for one, don't know how to read.


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afeigel wrote:
Eyesore wrote:
afeigel wrote:
My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:


HAHAHA!! No, I don't plan on committing e-suicide. I personally don't mind if my reviews don't get commented on, but when they aren't even viewed, that kinda sucks.

I've read it!! I'll even check it out. I'm really digging the early sixties' drone classics, so I'm trying to broaden my views there.


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Misha wrote:
afeigel wrote:
Eyesore wrote:
afeigel wrote:
My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:


HAHAHA!! No, I don't plan on committing e-suicide. I personally don't mind if my reviews don't get commented on, but when they aren't even viewed, that kinda sucks.

I've read it!! I'll even check it out. I'm really digging the early sixties' drone classics, so I'm trying to broaden my views there.


Well, I owed you one for broadening mine (65daysofstatic and Venetian Snares are teh neato). Darsombra would definitely broaden your drone views, being that its more sinister sounding than your average drone.


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Eyesore wrote:
afeigel wrote:
My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:

Anyway, as long as people are reading them, that's cool. It's not like we need validation from the forumite, you know? I just wondered if this board was becoming less about music and more about, well, all that other silliness that goes down here.


NO THAT IS NOT HAPPENING


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Zad wrote:
Eyesore wrote:
afeigel wrote:
My poor wittle Darsombra review has barely been viewed... :sad: [/pouting]

See, now Adam is going down the Path of Dee! :sad:

Anyway, as long as people are reading them, that's cool. It's not like we need validation from the forumite, you know? I just wondered if this board was becoming less about music and more about, well, all that other silliness that goes down here.


NO THAT IS NOT HAPPENING


shhhh, dont get yourself banned again :wink:


If i was to say that i hadnt acquired heaps of awesome albums because of the reviews on this site i would be lying.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 06, 2006 6:31 pm 
following the reaper wrote:
shhhh, dont get yourself banned again :wink:

Zad was put on time-out, not banned. And he should have stayed that way with the uber-cool post count of 11111. :P


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