| I generally ramify anime into groups accordingly to MAL scores. They translate to: trash 0-7.8 controversial 7.8-8.1 8.1+ good |
dissipatedJan 3, 2015 2:16 AM
| Mostly popularity. And how relatively good something is considered. |
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| Nothing. I don't pay any attention to them. |
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| It's an elitist scale. |
hentai_eucli said: Mostly popularity. And how relatively good something is considered. ^ I don't put a lot of weight into it, but MAL scores do tend to show how much our collective community likes the show. |
| Something I can use to start a shitstorm. |
| Nothing. I don't base my time nor what I watch on what others seem to like. I watch what I want. |
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| Since Inferno Cop isn't no.1 with a 10.00 score they mean shit. |
OkashiJan 3, 2015 2:27 AM
| I pay much more attention to its ranking than the scores. Since one anime could be at 60 , while the other one is at 150, but the score difference is only like 0.20 |
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| As some sort of generalization regarding what the majority of a series' viewership thinks of it, with some external factors taken into account. The 8.00 barrier splits series up somewhat, but it's still very genre-dependent. For example ecchi/harem/moe comedies/hentai always go lower in score in the first place and in that case it doesn't mean much in the end |
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HaXXspetten said: As some sort of generalization regarding what the majority of a series' viewership thinks of it, with some external factors taken into account. The 8.00 barrier splits series up somewhat, but it's still very genre-dependent. For example ecchi/harem/moe comedies/hentai always go lower in score in the first place and in that case it doesn't mean much in the end What's scary are the people who rate an anime down for being a certain genre, ignoring mostly all the content. |
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Kagami_Hiiragi said: HaXXspetten said: As some sort of generalization regarding what the majority of a series' viewership thinks of it, with some external factors taken into account. The 8.00 barrier splits series up somewhat, but it's still very genre-dependent. For example ecchi/harem/moe comedies/hentai always go lower in score in the first place and in that case it doesn't mean much in the end What's scary are the people who rate an anime down for being a certain genre, ignoring mostly all the content. Hey, let's not forget the people who rate for the sake of rating, like"yeah this anime is very good, but it isn't worthy 8.50+ so i'll give it a 6" and vice versa. |
hentai_eucli said: Mostly popularity. And how relatively good something is considered. You got it right. |
| "Let Justice Be Done!" My Theme Fight again, fight again for justice! |
| Nothing at all besides a basic view on whether the show is decent or not. If its great or not is up to me. |
Okashi_sama said: Kagami_Hiiragi said: What's scary are the people who rate an anime down for being a certain genre, ignoring mostly all the content. Hey, let's not forget the people who rate for the sake of rating, like"yeah this anime is very good, but it isn't worthy 8.50+ so i'll give it a 6" and vice versa. I know right? Ratings on MAL are so hard to take seriously when you have people who rate things in bad ways. A show should be rated not on its originality, but by its execution based on its genre. |
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| Nothing |
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| 7.8-8.1 has some of the better stuff |
 All credit goes to Sacred. |
hentai_eucli said: how relatively good something is considered. This. I find it extremely helpful when comparing shows with similar genre. Also, the more the rating drops in general, the less likely for a series you pick to be enjoyable. It somewhat changes when it comes to the bottom 100, in which you can find lots of so fucking bad it's good titles. |
| Usually I use it as recommendations. If an anime score high, there's high chances I'm going to like it too. |
But it's important to remember that a movie review is subjective;it only gives you one person's opinion. http://www.classzone.com/books/lnetwork_gr08/page_build.cfm?content=analyz_media&ch=30 It doesn't matter if you like LoGH,Monster etc.If you are a jobless or college/school dropout living in your mom basement, you are still an unintelligent loser. Taste in anime does not make you a better person.If elitist don't exist, casual pleb and shit taste also don't exist. |
| Nothing, some people here is like: _has harem in it, 1/10 _has ecchi in it, 1/10 _has loli in it, 1/10 _has moe in it, 1/10 _has incest in it, 1/10 _too popular and I dont like it, 1/10 _got too high score and I don't like it, 1/10 |
| I try to be as fair as possible for my ratings ! 4 or less : Below average 5 : Average 6 : Above average 7 : Good 8 : Above good 9 : Masterpiece 10 : Inferno Cop rank |
koinzell-ub said: moonnya said: So basically you hate 90% of the animesNothing, some people here is like: _has harem in it, 1/10 _has ecchi in it, 1/10 _has loli in it, 1/10 _has moe in it, 1/10 _has incest in it, 1/10 _too popular and I dont like it, 1/10 _got too high score and I don't like it, 1/10 Read the top sentence |
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| Nothing, I choose watch to watch based on the description. |
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| Why would you listen to MAL when people are so inconsistent with their ratings? Some people will give everything in 2014, 10/10 for example. Score means nothing. You might miss out on something if you're avoiding Anime because of other people. History has taught us that the majority opinion is often wrong. |
| Feel free to message me to chat. |
| 'Tis just a number. |
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| a guideline to filter out popular series but the deciding factor still lies on highly rated reviews and plot summary |
Stay in yesterday 時を止めて |
| Basically for older and unpopular shows shows I often add +1 to the score because of how immensely biased the mainstream casuals are. In general it's like: 0-3 don't exist 3-5.5 Bottom 100 stuff, often fun because of how bad it is 5.5-6.5 Very risky but for old OVAs/Movies it's often an okay score 6.5-7.5 Decent stuff (bad for new series) but still risky 7.5-8.5 Good/great stuff, but still risky 8.5+ Amazing stuff, but still risky The risk of getting something crappy never really disappears. hentai_eucli said: Mostly popularity. Ewwww |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| They could be quite useful, as long as you interpret them as they are: inverted. |
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Cakedog said: Nothing Seriously, they don't, E7 had a good rating and to my surprise i found it was shit (and i'm being generous here) , so i stopped paying any attention to MAL ratings and just decided to wing it when it comes to watching new anime. :3 |
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| I take the mean score with a grain of salt. |
WAD1992 said: Cakedog said: Nothing Seriously, they don't, E7 had a good rating and to my surprise i found it was shit (and i'm being generous here) , so i stopped paying any attention to MAL ratings and just decided to wing it when it comes to watching new anime. :3 Sometimes I think people don't know how popularity rating systems work. They provide you with statistically increased chances of finding something enjoyable, not with any kind of guarantee, and failing once or twice or even more often doesn't really mean shit to the overall helpfulness of the system. I mean you're free to do whatever you want, but saying the system is useless because it failed in one case is just bullshit. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| I find that most scores are over inflated. It feels like no matter how bad a show is, the average score never drops below 6. It's as though the scale is 6-10 not 0-10. As far as using the scores goes, I generally consider anything about a 7 worth a look to determine for myself. |
| Not a damn thing *Puts shades on* |
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Higashi_no_Kaze said: WAD1992 said: Seriously, they don't, E7 had a good rating and to my surprise i found it was shit (and i'm being generous here) , so i stopped paying any attention to MAL ratings and just decided to wing it when it comes to watching new anime. :3 Sometimes I think people don't know how popularity rating systems work. They provide you with statistically increased chances of finding something enjoyable, not with any kind of guarantee, and failing once or twice or even more often doesn't really mean shit to the overall helpfulness of the system. I mean you're free to do whatever you want, but saying the system is useless because it failed in one case is just bullshit. Thank you for explaining the obvious :) I simply provided an opinion + a method to ACTUALLY enjoy/try new anime without falling for peer pressure and to finally at the end be able to gauge the value of the anime basing solely on your own taste .... leading you to deciding what type of anime you actually like and using THAT as a reference for future anime. Keep in mind: most of the users on MAL are (without any doubt) young kids who have a "certain" taste in anime that the older users DO NOT share, so the scores are hardly reliable if your 18+something. |
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WAD1992 said: Higashi_no_Kaze said: Sometimes I think people don't know how popularity rating systems work. They provide you with statistically increased chances of finding something enjoyable, not with any kind of guarantee, and failing once or twice or even more often doesn't really mean shit to the overall helpfulness of the system. I mean you're free to do whatever you want, but saying the system is useless because it failed in one case is just bullshit. Thank you for explaining the obvious :) I simply provided an opinion + a method to ACTUALLY enjoy/try new anime without falling for peer pressure and to finally at the end be able to gauge the value of the anime basing solely on your own taste .... leading you to deciding what type of anime you actually like and using THAT as a reference for future anime. Keep in mind: most of the users on MAL are (without any doubt) young kids who have a "certain" taste in anime that the older users DO NOT share, so the scores are hardly reliable if your 18+something. It's just not a valid argument. You're free to do what I want as you said, but when you irrationally pass it off as some logical conclusion or a better method I feel inclined to point out that it isn't. You make it seem like it's absurd to find enjoyable anime based on rating because of one negative experience. No matter how you look at it that argument is not gonna get better even if you randomly bring up the alleged average age on MAL (so all those young kiddies vote LOGH, Mushishi, Bebop, Natsume or Monster in the top 50? They seem to have good taste then). It's not like looking at the rating implies completely disregarding the synopsis and other aspects either, I'm assuming people already vaguely know what kind of story they want to watch. Rating is just another, legit factor to consider, you just need to apply some brains to it (taking into consideration genre, popularity and age) and not blindly follow nothing but the score (who does that anyway?). |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
Cakedog said: Nothing This. Although it's nice to see people's scores anyways, but they don't affect my thinking |
| MAL scores are my everything. It is my mission in life to become one. |
Ckan said: To become a score? Nice!MAL scores are my everything. It is my mission in life to become one. |
| Probably how many people I'll be able to discuss it with. The more highly rated something is the more likely others are to pick it up, it's nice knowing that even if I didn't enjoy it I can still discuss it with people that did. I can watch something that's not really well rated and have nobody to discuss it with or it would be difficult to reference :P |
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