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Nov 25, 2022 4:25 AM
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for a while now, MAL has the 'react' system to reviews (nice, love it!, funny, confusing, informative, well-written, creative). recently, I saw that CreateAMate's review has risen to top 3 most popular review for this anime. But I think it is a pretty poorly written review (I can go into the review contents but it is not needed in this post) as also seen from the 77 out of 107 'confusing' reactions (almost 80% confusing ratio, compared to the other 2 reviews with less than 5%). from what i'm seeing, most people use 'confusing' (and sometimes 'funny') as 'downvotes' for a review. but in this site, those are pretty much treated as upvotes. not only for this anime, many animes aired after the introduction of this system has their most popular reviews being not so well-written, misleading, and has a lot of 'confusing' (not constructive negative criticism, just not well-written). ironically, these reviews will be perceived as the most popular reviews and will be seen first for people who are finding new animes to watch.what do you think about this new system? is it logical?
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Nov 25, 2022 4:38 AM
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Bro I literally made a same forum about this but Mods said "It doesn't encourage any discussion"
Nov 25, 2022 4:51 AM
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DexterDrubo said:
Bro I literally made a same forum about this but Mods said "It doesn't encourage any discussion"

It’s weird what they deem not encouraging discussion, its so inconsistent. The other day there was a Chainsaw Man forum post asking which OP people thought was better, CSM or JJK, and it was locked within 5 hours. Yet a whole day ago someone posted one asking would you rather get sucked off by Kobeni, or get a certain something from Himeno, yet it is still up. But anyway I agree, a lot of times I see good reviews overshadowed by bad ones because they get put to the forefront, no matter how bad the reactions to it are.
Nov 25, 2022 5:10 AM
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it needs to be removed, its ruined the point of a top review, same functionality as a dislike button still giving it the algorithmic boost it needed on Youtube
Nov 25, 2022 5:43 AM
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Complete shitshow. "Confusing" rating should be considered a downvote, yet reviews become elevated by the amount of reactions, not which reactions and as such only bad reviews are at the top.

Mushoku Tensei's top review is just author arguing with someone he imagined for an hour about literally one aspect of the show and then gives a grade based solely on how he doesn't like this factor.

In Call of the Night top review guy also focuses entirely on a single completely irrelevant plot detail, that was not even mentioned in the anime and and judges an anime entirely based on it.

This is a mess.
Nov 25, 2022 6:21 AM
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Only good part is you get to see WHO voted on a review

Nov 25, 2022 7:20 AM
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The mods will probably find a way to fix it


is what I thought 3 months ago. I hope they finally found the solution though
Nov 25, 2022 8:08 AM
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