Yostivanich

I recently had a friend rec­om­mend an artist (who is some­one that they per­son­ally know). No prob­lem, that’s the whole point of friends, doing stuff and let­ting other peo­ple know about it. How­ever going to the CDBaby site of the artist, and tak­ing a look at the reviews of the music I get this:

Anoy­mous­Com­menters by jtyost2, on Flickr

Even though you have to log in to CDBaby, all the reviews are just ran­dom mean­ing­less words. “A Fan”, “Fan”, even going so far as just flat out “anony­mous”. Grrr really both­ers me see­ing reviews or com­men­tary from peo­ple that won’t sign their own name. The log in value there isn’t even worth it, if you use a mean­ing­less username.

I don’t know if the artist or some­one that she knows did these reviews, but that is what it makes me think. I no longer trust the reviews and the reviews become mean­ing­less to me, because I have no trust for them.

Just sign your name and I will at least trust the review a lit­tle bit more than I cur­rently do, even though I prob­a­bly don’t even know you. At least some­one who I don’t know I trust more than some­one who appears to be bla­tantly spam­ming the reviews.

All that being said the music really wasn’t all that bad, I just hope the artist can find some fans who will attach a name to the review.