www.rateyourmusic.com C/D?

I barely interact with the main userbase, the improvements the site has made over the last 5 years or so has meant that I can just rely on following artists/labels and users I have some commonality with, which is brilliant because I don't have to work so hard to keep up with everything I'm interested in.

This is exactly how I approach it and why RYM is totally classic.

Not a big fan of recent design change. Search engine doesn't seem to work as well and dropped filters etc in the process. So now instead of having to/being able to select all releases or whatever it now seems to just search everything from what you've entered and then list them in categories. Not sure if it lists as much.
Seems like a bit of a backward step. Is it an improvement at all?

You can still filter, just click on the empty search bar and there's a downwards arrow next where it says everything with your categories

Not being careful with film spoiler tags can get you banned, according to rules! Some sites would benefit from a heavy hand but this is a bit weird.

Okay, this review of the new Hold Steady record was great, even as someone who generally likes THS:

Sounds like a boomer doing slam poetry in an elevator. Kinda cringe but instrumentation is ok for elevator rock I guess. Think I will forget about this album in a week.

Did someone say there is a penalty for writing too many 5 star reviews because I've been meaning to get back on but I mostly want to review my favorite stuff which will be mostly 5 stars

aiui— not a penalty penalty, but they stop factoring your scores into the overall average. works the same way for 1 star ratings, iirc.

another reason rym is stupid.

and i tried this past summer. fuck me, did i try. but i just don't have the patience for it.

*too many 1 star ratings

but what's "too many" — no idea.

it could also just be an internet folklore thing that has no truth behind it and every one of those kanye west things i rated one half star actually matters.

how the algorithm works is not exactly known, which I think is intentional because for some reason people really love to try to game it. I've been wondering about this myself since 90% of my ratings are 3.0+. I don't really spend much time with albums I don't like and I don't find a whole lot of albums irredeemable. But I think the "deweighting" applies more to the people who slap .5's on like 10,000 different albums. I haven't seen your profile (are YOU on the ILXors on RYM list?) but I suspect you probably don't have anything to worry about.

how the algorithm works is not exactly known, which I think is intentional because for some reason people really love to try to game it.

the modern world in a nutshell.

(goes to vote all pixies releases one half star)

are YOU on the ILXors on RYM list?

― frogbs, Wednesday, January 12, 2022 10:17 PM (one hour ago)

I didn't know there was one, so probably not. I've barely been active there in several years

well, what's your account

https://rateyourmusic.com/~iamragmar

thanks. I think the plan was to do a custom chart amongst those users and maybe poll the top 25 or something. ILX's favorite albums and what not. but I think I need a few more users.

though I suspect your profile may not affect much :)

you can include me on the list too, username is BradNelson

oh you do have a lot of 5 stars

i pretty much only rate albums i would give five stars to

i assume rym does not factor in any of my ratings lol

Getting all kinds of security warnings and pop-ups I haven't seen until today, this is worrying because this seems like an escalation from all the other pop-ups you need to click away, is this just going to get worse?