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Since, you know, rating stuff is SRS BSNS, a few notes about that:
First: The average anime is not an 8. That's bullshit. The average anime is a 5, or maybe a 5.5, depending on how you count. This is absolute. On a ten point scale, the average cannot be an 8.
Second: A rating system does not simply walk from 5 (average) to 4 (bad). There are steps between these, like a gradient, and MAL has failed at that.
Third: I try to rate by how good I feel an anime is, not by how much I enjoyed it. These generally go hand in hand, but anime which rely on cheap laughs and gags, regardless of how much I might enjoy them, will likely not score high from me. "So bad it's good" gets rated by the bad, not the good.
Fourth: I only rate (and/or review) things after I'm done with them. This means either after I've finished it or after I've dropped it. I think this is fair. If an anime is bad enough that I don't feel like watching it anymore, it deserves to be rated as such. That said, things have a tendency to sit on my watching list for months. (I see you there, Mekakucity Actors.)
Fifth: I don't really read manga anymore. Nothing against it. Just not my thing.
Last: Look at the first point. Reread it. Understand it. Internalize it. Realize that 25% of all anime are not masterpieces. You will be better for it.
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I could almost hear your voice as I read this.