| I rate purely on enjoyment and nothing else. |
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| My mean score is 5.5, which is smack down on "average" on a 1-10 scale. 4-6 are the most common numbers I use because most anime are about average, and it takes a lot to convince me something isn't average (whether it'd be for better or for worse). I don't pay attention to MAL's active user rating (which negates the silent majority who just come and score 7+ on popular shows and leave), so I can't say whether I'm harsher compared to these users here. |
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Edocchi said: With that system it's a given, I used something like that for a while and had a 1.45 avarage.karkki_ said: Sir, you got my respect for having a lower mean score than mineThere's no reason not to score "harshly." Quit permeating garbage or shit that's not worth it. Instead, forward what you think is actually good as much as possible. A 2/10 to me is prestigious. Shows I don't like or care for don't deserve anything more than a 1/10. |
| I consider myself generous then knowing i havent least scored animes below 5 xp |
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| I'm a harsh scorer. I'm honest with my feelings |
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| I'm pretty generous when it comes to scoring. It really depends on how much it keeps my attention. I usually drop a lot of shows (i probably should add them to my my list) so it generally depends on the story. If the art is great like Made in Abyss or Berserk then I'm definitely reading (at least until the story gets boring). |
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| Balanced. My mean score is 5.5 and my rating distribution isn't particularly messy either. |
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| Fairly generous. Each show has it's strengths and weaknesses. And if I truly hated something more than likely I wouldn't have rated it at all. But they really gotta blow my socks off to get a 9 or 10. |
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| Nope,my overall rating is 8+ for both anime and manga. |
| "When they're alive, you can enjoy watching them struggle. When they're dead, you can enjoy tearing out their guts. Tales are things you get to enjoy twice." |
| I believe generous. Mostly because a low score seems to be an insult to the people who put in hours of work. Unless I really dislike, in that case I won't hesitate to give a low score. |
| Harsh for the most part. I typically don't rate things highly just because it's 'universally praised.' I do give more leeway to things I do find enjoyment out of or have heavy nostalgia towards. |
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| I usually just give a 10 to something I found resonated with me pretty well and leave it at that. I don't quite watch anime super duper often anymore. If something got me to sit down and watch it for a while and made me want to sit through the whole thing, it's probably a 10. |
☕ Truth be told, I'm quite proud of my house blend. To attain my flavor and fragrance, I use five different types of coffee beans. ☕ |
karkki_ said: Damn. Here I thought people rating on a 7-10 scale or using the 5 point score system were the most asinine ways to use the MAL system.There's no reason not to score "harshly." Quit permeating garbage or shit that's not worth it. Instead, forward what you think is actually good as much as possible. A 2/10 to me is prestigious. Shows I don't like or care for don't deserve anything more than a 1/10. |
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| Well, realistically speaking, shows are not made to try and be bad; they must be good enough that they profit off of it. Really well-produced series are 9-10. A good enough show would score a 7, an 8 if I really enjoyed it. A "mediocre" to me would be 5-6. 3-4 is just a show I didn't like and has little value, and 1-2 are only really there for shows that don't have a point of being made. Although looking at my stats, I have 15% rated as 9 (which may be a teeny bit too much), so I'm pretty generous. |
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Tylaen said: To be fair, the majority of people with lists don't have obscene counts of anime watched. They also don't force themselves to watch things they think are bad.Damn. Here I thought people rating on a 7-10 scale or using the 5 point score system were the most asinine ways to use the MAL system. They usually have no reason to rate below a 7. |
☕ Truth be told, I'm quite proud of my house blend. To attain my flavor and fragrance, I use five different types of coffee beans. ☕ |
| Generous. Not purposely but due to how I rate anime most tend to end up around a 6 or 7. My criticisms when paired with any fancy alteration would very likely lead to more 3s and 4s. |
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Korrvo said: I'm uncertain why you think I, anime watcher extraordinaire of 170 shows over 15 something years go out of my way to watch seasonal sludge / bad shows on purpose x] I drop things in a heartbeat If I don't care.Tylaen said: To be fair, the majority of people with lists don't have obscene counts of anime watched. They also don't force themselves to watch things they think are bad.Damn. Here I thought people rating on a 7-10 scale or using the 5 point score system were the most asinine ways to use the MAL system. They usually have no reason to rate below a 7. And yeah, they probably do but rating everything they've ever watched 7-10 just sorta tells me they're not sure if it was actually fairly mediocre, but they sat through it so it deserves a 7 for taking your time through to the end. It's not a mentality i'll turn in my grave over or anything above "But why?" it's just...why bother scoring a show at all if you're not going to put some extra thought to it? Just mark it as watched. |
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| I'm a pretty generous scorer. I find myself concentrating on the better aspect of shows more than the weak points, so I think that may be why. I've found things I really like about almost every anime I've seen, and it's rare for me to rate below a 6/10. |
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| I guess generous cause my default and most average score is usually 6 and I happen to higher up the score if the art was really good or if I had a really fun time watching it, also I usually try to line my scores up with how the scores on mal's work, where the lowest of scores are usually around 5 and the highest are around 8 or 9, its extremely rare to see an anime below 5 stars, usually the bad animes are at 5 and 6 And my average score is also pretty high cause I generally dont pick stuff I know I won't enjoy |
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| I'm very generous, considering I rate almost purely based on overall enjoyment. |
| oh definitely generous. most anime on my list are a 7 or above unless it was just appalling |
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Tylaen said: I guess that's what I started doing. Most of the shows on my list just flat out aren't rated (on anilist). I can't remember my opinion of most shows I watched a decade ago.I'm uncertain why you think I, anime watcher extraordinaire of 170 shows over 15 something years go out of my way to watch seasonal sludge / bad shows on purpose x] I drop things in a heartbeat If I don't care. And yeah, they probably do but rating everything they've ever watched 7-10 just sorta tells me they're not sure if it was actually fairly mediocre, but they sat through it so it deserves a 7 for taking your time through to the end. It's not a mentality i'll turn in my grave over or anything above "But why?" it's just...why bother scoring a show at all if you're not going to put some extra thought to it? Just mark it as watched. But I have watched enough anime by now that if I'm watching it, chances are I'm going to rate it quite highly (partially because I'm watching things very infrequently nowadays). I drop most everything I don't love. I feel like that one food critic from ratatouille who's like... if I don't love the food then I DON'T SWALLOW. But also I feel like opinions about a show can't be properly expressed with just numbers, so I just don't get about rating anything I didn't outright adore too much. |
☕ Truth be told, I'm quite proud of my house blend. To attain my flavor and fragrance, I use five different types of coffee beans. ☕ |
| It's quite amusing how people with high average scores consider themselves generous. If one's average score is, say, 7.36 and they rate something a 7 that means below average ... and effectively is a negative vote. There is a difference between an 8 handed out by somebody with a very high and a very low average rating. Because the value of a vote is ONLY the difference between the vote and the voter's average score. Most rating sites normalize this with trivial math, matter of time before MAL will do it too. Be smart, and don't ruin your average. The anime you really love deserve this so your vote has impact. |
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| I used to be quite generous with scoring and I still am with my childhood anime but nevertheless I consider myself to be a harsh scorer now. |
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| I think I’m pretty generous, my mean score is around 7. However, it rised a bit when two years ago I decided to change the use of scores I used to, I used to give few 8 but there were some series to which I gave 7 that I liked more than many others I scored with a 7, so I decided to use more the 8. |
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| Pretty generous I'd say, you would have to do something ridiculous to completely turn me off for me to rate it below a 6, at that point I would have probably dropped it. Usually anime is entertaining enough for me to give it a 7, if it has a lot of layers to it then 8 or above (given some exceptions) anything a 5 or below was either straight down the middle or just really bad, but there haven't been that many shows that I have felt that way about, at least so far from what I have been watching. |
| I think I'm decently generous, I've still given out more good than bad scores. |
| I round up my .5s , so I am generous. I also don't have that many ratings on the very low end, most anime isn't so bad. |
| I'm generous. Unless the show is plain and boring or completely fails at it's premise, chances are it wont't be getting a score lower than a 5. |
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| Extremely generous. Mean score of 6.52 and 310 anime out of 569 are scored higher than 7. I would say that I enjoy very much the most of the thing I watch. |
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| If it's a type of story I'm fond of seeing, I'll be more inclined to tolerate mistakes, if it's not I won't. Would that be called particularly generous or just commonsensical? You be the judge. |
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| I'd say I'm pretty generous. My mean score is 6 something, so just above average. I have my fair share of 1's though. |
| I am a bit more generous than harsh. I try to rate as fairly as I can. However, I give bonus +1 whenever the artstyle (manga) or visuals (anime) look great. |
| Generous i think ? i mean for me i dont have a system so if i enjoyed something i may give it 10/10 its just about my mood as for the shows i drop sometimes i dont even give them a score soooooo yeah |
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| If it's one or the other then I'm definitely harsh. |
| Extremely generous. Check my scores for batshit anime like SAO, Gate etc. |
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Maneki-Mew said: Burt your average is a 7, and if 70% of all anime you watched are "unforgettable", your memory is significantly better than mine. Oh well.inim said: My heart says that my ratings, plus minus some taste related variations, are very close to anidb.net's normalized ratings. Mathematically yes, but there are is a meaning behind the numbers and since 5 literally means average, I use it for anime that were pretty forgettable for me and I somewhat regret the time I spent with themt, , but they are still not so bad that I would rate under 5. I think you fixiate too much on numbers as symbols. Assume for a moment you hadn't 10 steps, but 100 or even 1000. So your "this is a strong 7/100" would become a 76/100 and a weak one a 66/100. The more, the merrier. The numbers describe an order. X is better than Y if it has a higher number assigned. Having only 10 steps is too little, and obfuscates the idea that you just order from best to worst (with the option to put more than one anime in each numeric slot). But, you don't even need to see the numbers, they are just a clumsy kludge. My thinking about the list is based on the idea of "order". If I had to pick 20 anime I had to watch for the rest of my life, I could safely say "all rated 10 or 9" and would be done. When answering forum questions of "give me good sci-fis", I just go trough the list and pick all rated > 7. The point is I consider the way I organize my list very useable, it's a tool. The numbers have no real meaning, they are an imperfect vehicle to describe an ordered list. Actually I'm a huge fan of rating by ordering, which is not used much but superior. You basically just insert a new anime anywhere you want and deem fit, by this pushing down anything below one rank down. No "rating numbers" are needed and visible, you just rate relative to what you already know. Numbers can be assigned in many ways if needed later. Again, this is part of how I rate, if I'm between two ratings, I look at anime below and above and if I find "no, this new entry is definitely not as good as X Y and Z I have in the higher number", it goes to the lower option and vice versa. Long story short: I don't see numbers, I see an ordered priority list. |
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