Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

You know that empirical claims aren't provable, right?

Anyway, it's just a message board. Why would anyone need to "prove" to you that they listened to something? If you're not going to believe something so simple and normally casual like someone listening to an album, so that you need to challenge people to demonstrate to you somehow that they did, why would anyone bother interacting with you in a casual setting?

Originally Posted by grindy

It's not so much about proof, it just makes the thread more fun and engaging. It also doesn't have to be a whole review, just a few lines and thoughts and hopefully amusing quips about the album.

Originally Posted by Terrapin_Station

Is it fun for people who don't like to write reviews, especially if they're required to, though?

What if we just let people write reviews if they like writing reviews, and not worry about it otherwise?

Originally Posted by J.R.R. Tolkien

There is only one bright spot and that is the growing habit of disgruntled men of dynamiting factories and power-stations; I hope that, encouraged now as ‘patriotism’, may remain a habit! But it won’t do any good, if it is not universal.