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Title: Pitchfork Is Beta Testing User Reviews and Comments As It Approaches
30

Link: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/10/22/2030...

As it nears its 30th anniversary, Pitchfork is testing user reviews and
comments in a major shift from its long-standing critic-only model. The site
will now let readers rate albums and leave comments, combining those into an
aggregated "reader score" alongside the official Pitchfork score. The Verge
reports: Pitchfork has historically been a one-sided affair. While it ran the
occasional reader poll, there was no way for readers to directly voice their
opinion on the site. If you thought that Jet's Shine On deserved better than
a 0.0 (first off, you're wrong), there was no way to let the author know
other than shouting into the void of this new thing at the time called
Twitter. Now the site is considering letting users comment directly on
reviews and give albums scores of their own. And then those scores will be
averaged up into a single reader score for each album.

Read more of this story at Slashdot.

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