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Braincoke said: Imo the scale just doesn't really make sense in the lower region. 5 is average and 4 is bad which means I'll very rarely rate an anime below 5 because I rarely consider an anime "bad". 7 is good, so 4 being bad is logical. The problem is more between 6 (fine) and 5 (average), i'd say. Braincoke said: I think that's only natural not not because they are using the scale "wrong". Sure, but if said people feel the need for a larger scale, i believe they do use it wrongly, somehow. And weirdly enough, people complaining about the scale always are those with very high average score, and little to no use of the lower half... so there is definitely a correlation at some point. Polls already were made multiple times in the forums, and MAL users prefer using 7 instead of 5 as an average number for the scores... so, well. |
Alexioos95Mar 2, 1:08 PM
 "Genius lives only one storey above madness." – Arthur Schopenhauer. "Stupidity is a talent for misconception." – Edgar Allan Poe. "I'm tired... and hungry." – Alexioos95. |
| Put it in the Suggestions forum. Sounds like a ok idea to me |
| When I started out watching anime I used a site with a percent system, so you could rate a show anything between 1% and 100%. It eventually got converted into a 5 star system with half stars, which is pretty much the same as what MAL got. Ironically I was fairly happy with the 100% system when I had under 500 anime in my list, but past a thousand or so I prefer having less options. The more anime you have in your list the tougher it becomes to find a spot they fit in relative to everything else. I recommend to make use of the available numbers and not limit yourself to half the options. Then you won't need half steps either. After the first 300 or so anime in my list I did a correction of moving everything down. 100% became 90%, 90% became 80% and so on. I did the same thing a second time. Highly recommended to do after having a better grasp on the landscape. Basically, it's not the available options that are the problem, it's how you make use of them. |
| MyDramaList utilize this score system and I think it works pretty well. I don't like the presumption that 7 is supposedly a mediocre rating here so people settle for an 8 |
| why is this on the AOT forums? |
| How about we accept the fact that 1-10 is a pretty basic and awesome way to score stuff. How about we just ....well....use the system that is presented to us by the website we chose to visit, instead of trying to have it our way? The average MaL user does inform you, on his profile, that he's indeed a very special boy that is using his own (and very unique) ranking system, anyways... That will never change, no matter what kind of system is implimented. So there's no point. |
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| 0.5 ratings aren't necessary if you consider 6 and 7 as positive scores (they are indeed above average) and 5 as something worth watching (4=bad on MAL, so 5 means "not bad"). OP, you have several anime rated 7-8 and very few 1-5. You could spread your 7-8 across 5-8 (something like turning your current 7-7.5-8-8.5 into your new 5-6-7-8) and then scale the rest accordingly. |
| Should be on AD, not here. Personally I kinda already agonize over the difference between a whole number difference, so decimals would make it worse lol. |
| I personally do not mind. However, I doubt MAL itself will implement it considering a good deal of the userbase doesn't utilize the bottom half of the current rating scale. |
| As much as I like the idea I think it would get too complicated. |
| User ratings would be awesome but id be worried about review bombing from people when you dislike their favorite anime. A 20 point system on MAL is excessive 10 point system does good enough. But interesting ideas. |
| You should've added a poll so people can vote yes lol. |
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Reply to riqmoran
Spast1c said:
User ratings would be awesome but id be worried about review bombing from people when you dislike their favorite anime. A 20 point system on MAL is excessive 10 point system does good enough. But interesting ideas.
User ratings would be awesome but id be worried about review bombing from people when you dislike their favorite anime. A 20 point system on MAL is excessive 10 point system does good enough. But interesting ideas.
There is no such thing as reviewbombs. They dont exist. The opposite is what is the true problem, review glazing.
If you look at almost any anime, take the 10s and the 1s, the 10s usually outnumber the 1s by a factor of 50 or more. With that ratio they average out to 9.8 which is just absurd. It gets even more ridiculous if you factor in the 9s which usually outnumber the 2s by an even larger factor.
| @riqmoran Review bombing as in somebody creating multiple accounts or like getting multiple people to review negatively regardless of their opinion on the show |
Spast1c said: id be worried about review bombing If talking about true review bombings (brigading/bots), MAL already has a system blocking that. Nothing can be do to stop usual users just giving bad scores, tho. And as riqmoran said, it has been proven that bots spamming 10s are as many as 1s, more or less cancelling each other. The problem is that the usual users use a lot more 9/10s than 1/2s. |
"Genius lives only one storey above madness." – Arthur Schopenhauer. "Stupidity is a talent for misconception." – Edgar Allan Poe. "I'm tired... and hungry." – Alexioos95. |
| Definitely should be added but won't be because it's a fairly niche thing and most of the userbase only uses 7 through 10 as ratings since few think critically about what they watch. You could of course just leave the 10 point scale as the default then have an option for a 20 point scale but alas, tyranny of the majority. Also to the people suggesting Anilist I am not switch to a service with a horrific UI, tyrannical moderators and a lacking database just so that I can have a larger rating scale, lol. That's like throwing the baby out with the bath water. With that being said, proper rating distribution as a few others have suggested in this thread goes a long ways towards minimizing the problem so that's probably your best bet. |
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| I don't know if I'd want to go over all the anime I want to decide if I should bump them down to a .5 or keep them in a whole |
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| i just do that within the tags. i don't think it really needs to be a feature, but personally i'd welcome it. |
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| You rate things 1-10. It's a simple, universally understood system. If you think that something is inbetween a 6 and a 7, re-evaluate your scoring. |
Reply to riqmoran
Spast1c said:
@riqmoran Review bombing as in somebody creating multiple accounts or like getting multiple people to review negatively regardless of their opinion on the show
@riqmoran Review bombing as in somebody creating multiple accounts or like getting multiple people to review negatively regardless of their opinion on the show
Effectively pointless. As for every person who goes through the trouble of creating an entire separate account just to give a 1 star rating theres literally 100 more who mindlessly hand out a 9 or 10. Basically does not exist and has zero impact. Review bombing is just not a thing even worth mentioning.
| @riqmoran I guess? Idk it seems like something id be worried about. |
Reply to Alexioos95
Spast1c said:
id be worried about review bombing
id be worried about review bombing
If talking about true review bombings (brigading/bots), MAL already has a system blocking that. Nothing can be do to stop usual users just giving bad scores, tho. And as riqmoran said, it has been proven that bots spamming 10s are as many as 1s, more or less cancelling each other. The problem is that the usual users use a lot more 9/10s than 1/2s.
| @Alexioos95 I mean i guess you could say that is true. But in the case of profiles, i don't think many people would have voted on a profile as compared to an anime, so where as a anime might get 1000's of ratings even a popular profile would only get a few hundred at most since MAL is known for the anime list not really the users. So i feel like it would be much eaiser to review bomb a profile than an anime. |
| Just use AniDB. It breaks the scale down to 0.01 which should help you rate however you want. |
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