| I think it happens often where the first several reviews are all either ten or nine, maybe eight, but the next one is three somehow. See RoV's e.g... still, it seems the average rating is about 7, so why are extreme reviews mostly liked? |
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| Yes, mal reviews are the embodiment of it. they're largely trash |
| And how's being an extremist a bad thing? Anyways, if you're referring to reviews on MAL. Then most of those are troll reviews. Or reviews which comprise of baseless crap. But there are some that make sense, and there's nothing wrong with them. I can say the same thing about people who give 9s and 10s to a show. But if the review makes sense as to why they are giving such scores, it's alright. Also, it isn't the score of the review that you should focus, rather it's the content. And when you do that most of the reviews are baseless crap. |
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so why are extreme reviews mostly liked? People voting helpful on reviews that shared the same feelings about said show. You'll have people voting helpful on a review that scored the show a 3 because they didn't like it and on the other hand you have people voting helpful on high scores because they enjoyed the show. Honestly take the reviews and scores with a grain (or spoonful) of salt and judge for yourself rather than letting reviews do it for you. |
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| Yep, I specifically only read reviews after finishing series. |
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Reina_Orikasa said: so why are extreme reviews mostly liked? People voting helpful on reviews that shared the same feelings about said show. You'll have people voting helpful on a review that scored the show a 3 because they didn't like it and on the other hand you have people voting helpful on high scores because they enjoyed the show. Honestly take the reviews and scores with a grain (or spoonful) of salt and judge for yourself rather than letting reviews do it for you. Pretty much this. Reviews become some kind of mini isolated echo chambers, and only reviews that go hard and praise a show to high hell, or a criticizes a show with no mercy are the ones that catch people's attention. The best thing to do for an anime you haven't seen is to watch the first two or three episodes yourself. That's more time than just reading some reviews, but reviews are inherently flawed. You don't need to stop reading reviews, but never rely on them. |
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| you know it doesn't hurt you to use the entire rating scale, and extreme reviews aren't liked for being extreme as you imply. there are tons of poorly written negative reviews that never see the light of day. what makes many popular "extreme" reviews well liked is that they contain very snarky, witty writing that's fun to read even if you know nothing about the show/comic that's being reviewed. looks like i interpreted the op as only referring to negative reviews, im guessing that in general popular opinion will favor a review based solely on score, with good writing being the initial push that propels a review to the top spot once they get to the front page. there are many positive reviews and negative reviews but there can only be one top review |
Aure0linDec 10, 2018 8:15 PM
| "I like young-girl sexual creations, Lolicon is just one hobby of my many hobbies," he says. I ask what his wife, standing nearby, thinks of his "hobby". "She probably thinks no problem," he replies. "Because she loves young boys sexually interacting with each other." |
| I mean those who make reviews must feel somewhat passionate Id guess to even make the review so it either has to be because of highly positive or negative emotions or outlook for the show which I think explains the scores somewhat like my friend @KatsutoSaki who did a review for Overlord and gave it a 1 because negative experience https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=290697 |
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| Well I mean usually it's the same people who make it to the top for negative reviews, not a lot of people outside of them really get there, and usually, they have an audience so they can be successful. |
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| im fine with extreme reviews but i certainly am not a fan of them reading throught them sometimes can be entertaining and gainful but the bias and sensation are so transparent |
MAYOIIIDec 10, 2018 9:25 PM
| I'm just wondering when Archaeon'll review animes again. |
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| I think anyone's opinion is as good as anyone else's. Yeah you can expound on why you like or dislike something, but dig deep enough and it's basically like asking someone why they think pizza tastes good. |
| "You can't have everything. Where would you put it?" - Steven Wright |
| Usually people likes to speak about things they hate or they love, if something is average most people would move foward and forget about it. Besides, some shows are very polarazing so that happens naturally. |
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KatsutoSaki said: And how's being an extremist a bad thing? It's bad in every aspect of life, extremes are always bad. But in respect to anime giving a 10 isn't extremist, giving always 10's or 1's it is. |
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| Cuz they're fun to read lol.Readers want something unique you know |
| Taste is subjective, so a lot of people can hate a show that is otherwise well liked. |
| It's the content that matters not the score. And score will be always subjective so if you want to do get a recommendation read the reviews not see the score. Also do comparison between reviewers. Or if you're too lazy, just skip the anime or skim the shit out of it. |
| the average human is unintelligent all sort of democratic votes like these are made by average humans you can have an anime connoisseur (me) vote on a review and then have 299 plebs vote on it and my vote will still count as only one and if there are 190 negative to 110 positive reviews you see how my voice is just lost in the crowd you can't expect a popularity vote between all normal/underqualified people to ever make reasonable sense because the average human can't reason since they are monkeys |
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Seyfert said: so why are extreme reviews mostly liked? Because people have shit taste not only for anime but for reviews too. |
Deknijff said: I mean those who make reviews must feel somewhat passionate Id guess to even make the review so it either has to be because of highly positive or negative emotions or outlook for the show which I think explains the scores somewhat like my friend @KatsutoSaki who did a review for Overlord and gave it a 1 because negative experience https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=290697 Not really true. Sure it is for my case, but it doesn't mean for most. People neglecting other reviews and only taking those on the top 4 into account doesn't mean there aren't/are very less reviews of scores 4, 5, 6 or 7. But since you already mentioned "somewhat", typing more about this would be kinda useless. Also, OP saying there're often anime pages with reviews having a score of 8-10 on the top (three) might not even be correct, since it's a mere "observation"... Also not sure, but I think you typed this response by only reading the title of the thread, not the OP. Just saying, don't mind it. Also OP is calling only reviews with a score of 3 or less as "extreme". DaCraziGuy said: KatsutoSaki said: And how's being an extremist a bad thing? It's bad in every aspect of life, extremes are always bad. Oh. I didn't know being extremely honest, extremely truthful, extremely polite, etc. is considered a bad thing now. |
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| Reviews which dabble around with anime meta gets upvoted a lot eg. - Goblin Slayer. Average tends to get left out because they are the kind of anime that you will find being discussed in every other forum, image board, social networking site etc. Actually, you shouldn't even bother with reviews. Toradora has 8.38 but I can't even give it more than 2.0. Then apart from reviewers, there is this militant fanbase which takes every review so seriously that they will visit the reviewer's profile just to shit on him. |
KatsutoSaki said: Oh. I didn't know being extremely honest, extremely truthful, extremely polite, etc. is considered a bad thing now. It is, extremely honest can be really bad for you if you have a job or if you did something that you shouldn't. Also you can hurt someone feelings for no reason. If you have an ugly friend would you tell him every day how ugly he/she is? Would you like to hear that if you were that friend? I don't now if truthful has a middle ground nor if one person can be truthful. Not sure exactly what you mean, I might be wrong. And being extremely polite can creat some missunderstandings, it seems like you are not close to some people or force to others to act in certain way just in case. Less politeness usually means you are more open to someone... sometimes is just being rude tho, lol. Even water can be bad to an extreme. Extremes are always bad. |
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| It feels like a lot of ecchi series run into the opposite scenario, with a lot of low scores with reasoning that rarely feels like much more than this and then a positive review that rarely has anything to say past some vapid praises, and feels like it's put up there more in retaliation because it was the least bad. It just depends on various factors, I guess. Critical reception and audience dissonance primarily - I don't feel like it's uncommon for reviews that don't say more than a couple of sentences per point to get put in the top 4 because the other 3 were negative or positive in extremities - thrown together with it being easier to attract attention with "Why did he give this series a 1/10" as opposed to "why did he give this series a 6/10." They just are going to net more people, because the number at the top right is louder and demands more attention. It can be a dogshit review with no positives, and the 6/10 review can be geniunely well-structured and say something that actually feels insightful and meaningful, but if it explains *just* enough to be taken more seriously than someone caps-locking, I'm going to bet my money on the higher/lower score getting more noticed than the middling/balanced one. Maybe people force stronger reactions when they write reviews because of this due to being aware of as much. Maybe they only view things in black and white extremities to where it's either the greatest thing since the kama sutra, or the worst thing since the Holocaust. Maybe they only review series they feel strongly about in some way because they find themselves having more to say there. Who knows. |
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