@bartleboom; look, I don’t know if it’s like this for everyone, so here’s my answer to your question: "perhaps greater results could be achieved by acting as more 'responsible' users."
Answer: Look, a responsible user, from my perspective, is someone who takes a work they know well, reviews it, submits the review, and then sees it published on the site. That’s how it was happening up until just before Christmas, and then came the revolution of the homepage... With this new homepage, the reviews of non-new releases, if everything goes well, last a maximum of 2 days (two and a half days if we’re lucky)... Now explain to me, why should I write a subpar review on a new release (subpar because, being new, I’ve only just started to delve into it as a work, and don’t come telling me that real reviewers wax poetic after half a listen to the album or during the viewing of a film, because you might actually be right, but there don't seem to be many real reviewers here, and by 'real' I mean those who do it for a living, and thus are paid)?
And especially why should I write a reasoned and in-depth review of a non-new release, if it stays on the home page for less than 3 days and hardly anyone pays attention to it? Much better to publish provocative reviews, parody reviews, or better yet, no reviews like this one (with all due respect to cptgaio) which don’t require much effort, don’t require any deep thinking, and ensure dozens of comments (which benefits those who actually own the site, but hey, there are those who have fun with little after all).
There have been a multitude of users who complained about the new homepage, and the response from the ones running the site was (to put it simply): we do what we want, you adapt. Here the users have evidently adapted, and Debaser has objectively, from any point of view, deteriorated.
Quoting you: "I speak sincerely, without any polemical vein."
