| To the people who have a mean score under 6 , are you happy? I mean it seem like you don't enjoy that much the majority of anime you watch |
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| No, I am not, I need a girlfriend. Majority of anime being bad is sort of not important to my overall happiness. |
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| Yes the fact that the majority of anime coming out is shite doesn't make me depressed. I think I'll start getting into hopemaxxing superman memes now. |
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| maybe they are masochists or even completionist |
| My mean score is relatively low because all those random music videos. I guess it would be a little over 7 without them. |
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| I don't think they have any reason to be unhappy. |
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| Most of everything is crap. If you got something in your list that is really good it feels wrong to give other titles the same ranking, so everything else gets moved down. My default rating for stuff that is neither bad nor good is a 4 these days. It used to be 8. It's not that it's not entertaining or anything, it's just that I've seen stuff that is a whole lot better. |
| I'll never let my mean score fall under 5.50, so I'm not too concerned about "being too harsh" or anything. Generally, you think more about the anime you like than the anime you dislike on a regular basis anyway, so there's little reason to dwell on negativity. I'm still plenty happy with anime as a whole. |
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| You can still enjoy something that's say a 3 to a 6. When it comes to 3, it just means negatives significantly outweigh any positives and/or certain aspects turn out annoying but there are still bits of moments of enjoyment during the entry's run. |
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| Why do people put so much emphasis on others mean scores? Completionists who never drop a single thing aside, what's with the assumption that an overall low score meaning you don't like anime? I may not have a super low mean score, partially because I don't rate dropped shows, but I know from experience that giving something a low rating doesn't necessarily mean you disliked it. A high drop rate is a much better indicator you don't enjoy most of what you watch than a low mean score imo. |
| Nope, most anime could be way better tbh. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| To the people who have a mean score above 7 , why do you care so much about other people's scores? |
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Reply to deg
maybe they are masochists or even completionist
| @deg I'm not a masochist, I genuinely tried to pick shows I'd like, and it still didn't work out. |
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| lmao people with a mean score below 6 who think they're elitists and cool, you aren't. ig the perfect mean score is from 6.5-8. also people who have mean score above 9 are tasteless retards |
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| Yes. The lower the mean score, the more you love anime because you care about distinguishing as many different levels of good as possible, instead of slapping a 8/10 to anything that doesn't make you fall asleep midway without thinking too much about it. |
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| no I'm not happy in general, but that's not anime related. thanks for asking though. most anime sucks shit nowadays, and they abandoned themes and settings I care about. they also toned down fanservice. gradient shading sucks. BUT. 5 means average. it means I've seen stuff like this 1000 times. it didn't do anything exceptional, or anything bad. it wasn't interesting or fun, it was just okay. now how the fuck am I supposed to score the 1000th goddamn inoffensive isekai? because that's what's coming out in droves. that's right. 5/10. most shows I tend to love have a mean score of 6/10-7/10 btw, no way this isn't fair scoring. hypewatching and social media were mistakes. people with a high mean score are still in the honeymoon phase, haven't seen enough to know what the average is, or haven't seen anything truly incredible. maybe they're just easy to please or have their reccs curated with great precision. good for them, I hope they will be enjoying anime for long years to come. I still enjoy anime all the same, my scoring is just harsh for zoomers or something. |
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Reply to AMBITZZ
lmao people with a mean score below 6 who think they're elitists and cool, you aren't.
ig the perfect mean score is from 6.5-8.
also people who have mean score above 9 are tasteless retards
ig the perfect mean score is from 6.5-8.
also people who have mean score above 9 are tasteless retards
| wth is a perfect mean score? 😂 |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| You're just afraid of using the full 1-10 scale because it would indicate you're not enjoying the medium as much as you're trying to convince yourself you do. |
| My mean score for anime is currently at 5.89, and yeah, I would say that I'm satisfied. To me, it doesn't actually matter whether my mean score gets higher or lower. What matters is that I give honest ratings to each of the anime that I've completed. I also prefer using the entire 1-10 rating scale instead of using a 6-10 rating scale since I get to be more specific, and I like being specific when rating. Enjoyment is also a huge factor for me when rating, but I also wouldn't say that it's everything per se. Anime that are “enjoyable but bad" or "so bad that it's good” do exist, and I can't give those high scores. Overall, I am definitely happy with the anime that I've completed, and there is still an ample amount of interesting anime for me to watch in the future as well. |
| My score used to be pretty high, but its now on the 6s. The more anime u watch, the better you can evaluate it's quality and see its flaws. I don't think about whether or not I have gotten unhappier though, its just me having more knowledge to judge what I watch. |
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| Honestly my mean score has been dropping the more shows that I watch, still at around 7.4. I could probably stand to go through them and re-grade them which might put me even closer to 7. The fact is that there are more average/ok animes than amazing/awesome animes so it's only natural that a mean score of 6-7 would be a healthy score. So to answer the question yes I am happy even if my mean score went down even further. |
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| Yeah obviously happy since they are real massochist with no drop rule and watch all anime plus write comment in every eps on the current season instead lollll |
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| My score's lower than that by quite a margin and I feel fine, although maybe it is because I have partially gotten used to that feeling for years now anime-wise. I do mainly watch seasonals now and it does help kill time during breaks (when I don't also have other things going on), even if a lot of the seasonals on average for me aren't that well rated or shows I necessarily enjoy. Some kind of act as pure time-pass, some are genuinely exciting. It used to be a lot worse than how I am feeling for the past like year or two when I was completely burnt out. I also do rewatches from time to time and some of the stuff hasn't aged well over the many years so that also has some influence. |
| No. Since I have a mean score below 6 inch my girlfriend left me for someone with a larger mean score. My boss fired me and replaced me for someone who gives 10 to everything he says. I also got a curse which moisturize every potato chip I'm about to eat. |
| I do not have mean score below 6. But I'm pretty unhappy and mostly disappointed. |
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| Oh, one of these threads again :p I view enjoyment as a spectrum that can be improved by things that click with me and ruined by things that disappoint me. 1-5 scores correspond to experiences that go deeper and deeper into the disappointment territory (below 5.5 average), while 6-10 scores go more and more into long-lasting positive impact territory (above 5.5 average). It's as simple as that :) maybe for some people every single thing that they experience is super incredible, impactful and unforgettable, which is fine, but I don't think it's like that for me ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ higher scores are always very special compared to everything else, while lower scores are the same in a negative way. For example, 7/10 is considered to be a very high "prestige" score by me. I mean, it's seven points out of ten available - more than half! Why would I give such an incredibly high score to something I barely enjoyed? That just doesn't make sense to me :) MAL default scale is awkward and doesn't fit my needs because it assumes that I'm here to be impartial, trying to break down things into categories to rate animation quality, sound etc. and then slap "good/bad" labels on things, when I'm here to just to track and display my personal hierarchy that has nothing to do with quality and everything to do with the impact something had on me. So yes, I'm happy with the way I do things :) I just need to tweak some stuff here and there. |
Reply to nyugvo6
no I'm not happy in general, but that's not anime related.
thanks for asking though.
most anime sucks shit nowadays, and they abandoned themes and settings I care about. they also toned down fanservice. gradient shading sucks.
BUT.
5 means average.
it means I've seen stuff like this 1000 times.
it didn't do anything exceptional, or anything bad.
it wasn't interesting or fun, it was just okay.
now how the fuck am I supposed to score the 1000th goddamn inoffensive isekai? because that's what's coming out in droves. that's right. 5/10.
most shows I tend to love have a mean score of 6/10-7/10 btw, no way this isn't fair scoring.
hypewatching and social media were mistakes.
people with a high mean score are still in the honeymoon phase, haven't seen enough to know what the average is, or haven't seen anything truly incredible.
maybe they're just easy to please or have their reccs curated with great precision. good for them, I hope they will be enjoying anime for long years to come.
I still enjoy anime all the same, my scoring is just harsh for zoomers or something.
thanks for asking though.
most anime sucks shit nowadays, and they abandoned themes and settings I care about. they also toned down fanservice. gradient shading sucks.
BUT.
5 means average.
it means I've seen stuff like this 1000 times.
it didn't do anything exceptional, or anything bad.
it wasn't interesting or fun, it was just okay.
now how the fuck am I supposed to score the 1000th goddamn inoffensive isekai? because that's what's coming out in droves. that's right. 5/10.
most shows I tend to love have a mean score of 6/10-7/10 btw, no way this isn't fair scoring.
hypewatching and social media were mistakes.
people with a high mean score are still in the honeymoon phase, haven't seen enough to know what the average is, or haven't seen anything truly incredible.
maybe they're just easy to please or have their reccs curated with great precision. good for them, I hope they will be enjoying anime for long years to come.
I still enjoy anime all the same, my scoring is just harsh for zoomers or something.
| @nyugvo6 7 is the actual average on the site. So really 6 is something that's mildly enjoyable with lots of reservations, and the bottom half of the scores is different levels of drops. |
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| People who don't rate anime are probably the happiest. |
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