| Usually when to go to an anime's recommended section, there are those who recommend it and those who don't. something weird is sometimes when they don't recommend it, they give it a 4 or 5, (especially when 5 isn't even called bad on this site). Is it because of rating system differences? (I usually consider 3 the start of bad, and 4 has redeeming qualities that save it from being "bad" yet not "good".) |
| Perhaps because it's below the average anime score of 6.5 and anything below average is considered bad by the majority. |
| Can't answer for others, whenever I rate an anime here, everything which goes below 5 is a negative rating from me. 5-6 is simply average/decent, while everything above 6 is a positive rating. |
| 4 for me is an anime which usually starts off strong but plateaus as time goes on. I do consider anime I give a 4 to "bad" because of how inconsistent they are. On the other hand 5 for me just means mediocre/mid. I usually give it to anime I'll forget in about a week or so after finishing and don't leave much of an impression on me. Both these ratings I consider "bad" ratings due to how little I care about the anime I give it to. 6 and above include anime I actually care for. |
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| Everyone have their own rating system. For me, 3-5 shows are more or less bad, 6 is average. |
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| Do ratings even matter btw? Because I think they do not matter very much. Correct me if I am wrong. |
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| Because, according to Mal, a 4/10 is considered bad. |
| Because 7 is the average. 5 is really just the highest of the dropped. |
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| Because 4 is literally bad in MAL score. While 5 is Average, it also means mediocre here, and normally no one enjoys something mediocre so therefore 5 can also be considered bad. |
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Because 7 is the average.
5 is really just the highest of the dropped.
5 is really just the highest of the dropped.
| @JaniSIr JaniSIr said: Because 7 is the average. I never think of 7 as average. for me, 5 is average while 7 is Good (but the highest score not in favorites) |
| Generally people avoid recommending what they deem average since so much titles they watch are higher in quality. Kind of similar with gaming. |
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| Because on the MAL rating system it says "(4) Bad". |
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@JaniSIr
I never think of 7 as average. for me, 5 is average while 7 is Good (but the highest score not in favorites)
JaniSIr said:
Because 7 is the average.
Because 7 is the average.
I never think of 7 as average. for me, 5 is average while 7 is Good (but the highest score not in favorites)
| @cvbnm07 But that is the site wide average. It's like 6.something, so I rounded it up mildly. There is barely anything below 6, and anything below 5 is literally just a meme. |
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@cvbnm07 But that is the site wide average. It's like 6.something, so I rounded it up mildly.
There is barely anything below 6, and anything below 5 is literally just a meme.
There is barely anything below 6, and anything below 5 is literally just a meme.
JaniSIr said: But that is the site wide average. It's like 6.something, so I rounded it up mildly. There is barely anything below 6, and anything below 5 is literally just a meme. Just adding some database numbers to this, right now:
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| Most people I inspect have 95+% of their ratings at 5 and higher. They will have 500 shows in their list, but only a few rated 4 or lower. They are afraid of using the full 1-10 scale for various reasons: - sheep mentality (bad shows have an average of 5-7, so they conform to that weird standard) - they're young and impressionable, so everything they watch seems at least "decent" which leads to their scores being inflated - subconcious coping mechanism (they're afraid of admitting to themselves that their hobby, watching anime, is not as great as they're trying to convince themselves to be) - more retarded reasoning that cannot be logically explained |
| It depends on the person. Personally, I only watch titles that interest me in the first place, so if a title turns too stupid or boring to me, I'd rather drop it than go through it. Hence why the ones that I manage to go through start at 6 "fine", because everything below would have been dropped. It's also easier to work on a five star system for me, so from the ones who were interesting enough to not get dropped, 1 star would be 6, 2 stars would be 7, 3 stars would be 8, 4 stars would be 9 and 5 stars would be 10. Hence why my average score is around 8 |
| Because 4 to 5 is a really low rating? Isn't that obvious? |
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| Yeah rating system differences. Not everyone has the same mindset, shocking I know. |
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| It depends on a person's rating system. Personally, I agree with you that a 5/10 is average. I feel like there is a tendency among MAL users to use a "6 to 10 scale" - anything rated below "7" is average at best. Now as to why exactly, probably it has to do with folks applying the standards of your typical school grading system, "where a 7 would be a C, 6 a D, and anything below that a failing grade." |
| If I give an anime a 4 or 5, there are usually some enjoyable aspects, but it did more things I disliked than liked. |
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| I think is because, silly enough, people make a 5 what it should be a 4 (or maybe that's how I see it). People often think that something being mid is automatically bad, when actually is just a "meh" or an average, this is pretty significant to me as when something I consider a 4 and then a 5 walk around some thin line that makes me say "okay, at least it had that grace", but I won't blame people if they really also don't care about anime or manga that they disliked on the first place to follow a system of punctuations. That and the fact people aren't usually that harsh on what they watch or read. But whatever the reason, everyone has their own metrics and that's just how it is |
| I go by school-type numbers. With a 6 you are approved. With a 5 no. So 6 is the "minimum" positive grade. Anyway, like absolutely everything, it is very personal. For me, 10, 9 and 8 are animes that I liked a lot or more. 7 that I liked. 6 which was acceptable to watch. 5 or less means I didn't like it. |
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| it depends on someones taste if I recommend something I deem as rather....."bad" or "average". sometimes I DO recommend anime that I personally don't like just because someone else might enjoy it even though I don't.... it's rare, but it happens. the other answer is that I personally use a 10-point-rating-system as the site itself suggests as well. since I am generally an anime-lover and I'm rather picky with my choices on what to watch, my list preferably consists of higher rated anime and not those that I think are trash....although yes, they exist as well. but usually if I don't like something I don't even bother with finishing this series and just drop it instead |
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cvbnm07 said: Usually when to go to an anime's recommended section, there are those who recommend it and those who don't. something weird is sometimes when they don't recommend it, they give it a 4 or 5, (especially when 5 isn't even called bad on this site). Is it because of rating system differences? (I usually consider 3 the start of bad, and 4 has redeeming qualities that save it from being "bad" yet not "good".) To me 4 is bad, 5 depends, a dropped 5 isn't that bad but rather just not my things, a completed 5 on the other hand is bad cuz it means i stopped enjoying it as i was watching As for the "recommended" "not recommended" i assume you're reffering to reviews? I personally don't think the rating has to define wether something is recommended or not, but i'll get into that later, i'm going out now |
| For recommended/notrecommended, the 3 scores that are a mixxed batch for me are 5, 7, and 8 depending on different reasoning behind the rating, is it something i completed and am disappointed by or did i drop it from lack of interest? Do i have other seasons to compare it to? How much did the redeaming qualities and it's flaws effect my enjoyment? Is it just something i find fun but not particularly impactful? I'm not realy sure how to explain things further so i'll just leave some revies as examples for whoever can be bothered to read them lol you can let me know if this makes sense to you or not ๐ - 5 The Boy And The Heron Monster - 7 Dororo (1969) Kagami no Kojou Baccano! - 8 Hunter x Hunter (2011) Digimon Tamers Berserk The Count Of Monte Cristo |
Reply to Nivo3041
I think is because, silly enough, people make a 5 what it should be a 4 (or maybe that's how I see it). People often think that something being mid is automatically bad, when actually is just a "meh" or an average, this is pretty significant to me as when something I consider a 4 and then a 5 walk around some thin line that makes me say "okay, at least it had that grace", but I won't blame people if they really also don't care about anime or manga that they disliked on the first place to follow a system of punctuations. That and the fact people aren't usually that harsh on what they watch or read. But whatever the reason, everyone has their own metrics and that's just how it is
Nivo3041 said: as when something I consider a 4 and then a 5 walk around some thin line that makes me say "okay, at least it had that grace" Honestly, same. for me, "Bad" starts at 3 |
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