| Say you're watching an anime that your friend really praised One of his favorite. But when watching it you think it's plain boring or bad. Would you be more gentle with the rating? Can be the other way too. What if you see your friend rate a show that you really love with a low score. Does that bother you? |
| The best solution is to keep no friends. The integrity of your scores should take ultimate priority. |
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| Yes, if I agree with his/her taste. Like someone I look up to or think we have similar tastes, I usually lean towards rating it similarly to them or being in a particular mindset (if they hate it, I try to see the flaws) What if you see your friend rate a show that you really love with a low score. I'm bothered, but it's not a huge deal. |
iCallHax said: If the person opens my eyes to the series or if I rated something too high and I realize im fanboying I will lower the score Hmm, for me, I don't usually lower scores because of others but rather because of myself. I ponder after reading/watching something if it's really worth that high of a score or not before taking in consideration from others. |
| nah, i don't let others influence how i rate my stuff. and i don't really care if a friend dislikes a show i like, everyone has different tastes after all. |
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Lancehot said: No friends. No problems. |
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| I'm not going to go easy on the score of the show just because my friend was the one to tell me to watch it. Fuck that. |
| nope kek If I found the anime in question shit, I'll tell it straight then lel at his face |
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| nope sometimes my friends recommend me anime that I know I won't like lol |
| save all the cute girls from ntr manga |
| Nah, i always call them out on their shit taste |
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| MAL Friends? No RL Friends? No Close RL Friends? Maybe |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
| Not really, because everyone has different preferences. We could have a good compatibility rate even with many differing scores in shared anime; and if someone is bothered by it, they're welcome to discuss those shows with me. |
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| Hell nah, Like hell somebody taste will influence me. You taste, yourselves. Not mine. |
| My friends' rating definitely has an impact (at least initially) on a show I'm about to watch. If I end up enjoying the anime and discuss it a lot with them, perhaps my rating may go up as a result. |
| I ain't gonna let no friends influence my taste because their taste can never be as good as mine |
 Nico- said: Conversations with people pinging/quoting me to argue about some old post I wrote years ago will not be entertained@Comic_Sans oh no y arnt ppl dieing i need more ppl dieing rly gud plot avansement jus liek tokyo ghoul if erbudy dies amirite |
| I currently have 352 friends on MAL........... uhm how am I supposed to rate in correlation to everyone exactly? |
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| My friends who do watch anime have shit taste and only really watch the big 3, SAO and tokyo ghoul type animes. Only watch what ever popular, then forget about by that time next year. I could give less of a shit what random "friends" on the internet watch or what they rate. |
HaXXspetten said: I currently have 352 friends on MAL........... uhm how am I supposed to rate in correlation to everyone exactly? Come on, you must have a few favourites in that group. |
mayukachan said: Well of course but our opinions rarely match anywayHaXXspetten said: I currently have 352 friends on MAL........... uhm how am I supposed to rate in correlation to everyone exactly? Come on, you must have a few favourites in that group. |
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HaXXspetten said: mayukachan said: Well of course but our opinions rarely match anywayCome on, you must have a few favourites in that group. There's a difference between "my homies" and "the people I respect, taste-wise" (mutually exclusive most of the time) |
| friendswhatfriends? |
mayukachan said: Very few of my friends watch as wide array of genres as I do so they're generally just smaller pieces of the puzzleHaXXspetten said: Well of course but our opinions rarely match anyway There's a difference between "my homies" and "the people I respect, taste-wise" (mutually exclusive most of the time) Either way though I trust my own judgement, not like anyone else's opinion is going to affect how I rate something exactly |
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| No why would i do that both on Mal and in everyday life people have their opinion not everyone can be the same it would be boring. What should i start arguing with Brucelad because he gave anime X score of 1 and i gave it 8 for example please that would be dumb esp when we share multiple of other shows we enjoyed for example. Only as a joke maybe nothing serious ever. Also i belive my own judgement first then the rest only 1 who can affect my scores in ME. |
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| My friend's anime ratings have no influence on my ratings at all. |
| I try to my best not to shit on people's irl taste, for example I have a friend who's really into SAO but I try not to mention how much of a pleb he is. I don't change my taste just tiptoe around it and stay neutral, I'll usually just say I think the light novels are very good. As for on here, I could care less about people's opinions with ratings, yea Nekomonogatari is the best part. |
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| Well one of my best friends loves both SAO and Naruto and thinks they are masterpieces and gives them 10/10. I don't really know what to tell him so I just say "cool". He's ignorant so I can't converse with him. |
| No, I don't care how highly a good friend may think of a particular series, if I happen to think it's only mediocre, it will be getting a mediocre rating. I don't think my rating is influenced by friends at all. What I watch is sometimes influenced by friends, if they recommend me something, I'll watch it if I think it looks interesting and I'm not watching much of anything else currently. But my rating will still be entirely what I think of the series. |
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BruceLad said: Comic_Sans said: I ain't gonna let no friends influence my taste because their taste can never be as good as mine |
 All credit goes to Sacred. |
| I just tell them their taste is shit, it's better to hear it from a friend anyways. |
ShrabsterJul 14, 2015 4:28 AM
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| their ratings dont really affect mine, but they might make me give the rating a second thought if theirs is a lot lower or higher and if me and them usually have similar taste |
| Gholy's ratings affect mine ayyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy |
| Twitter and it's consequences had been a disaster for the human race |
| Kinda i guess. If i'm between 2 ratings, like a 6 or 7, i'll check out the stats page and see what my friends thought of it. If they rated it lower then i'll choose the lower number, and if they rated it higher i'll choose the lower number. So yeah i guess my friends ratings doesn't really influence me cause i like dragging down MAL ratings more. |
AttackOnTetris said: The best solution is to keep no friends. The integrity of your scores should take ultimate priority. |
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AttackOnTetris said: The best solution is to keep no friends. The integrity of your scores should take ultimate priority. Keep your friends close but keep your ratings closer! |
| WEAPONS - My blog, for reviews of music, anime, books, and other things |
| Yeah I tend to be less of a dick about shows someone I like likes. |
| End Zionazism |
| I wouldn't be more gentle at all. Just because he/she is my friend doesn't mean we have to share the same tastes. |
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| I tend to fall victim to friends' hype/high scores towards something, but my final decisions are mine and mine only. |
| hmm, I usually rate titles based on enjoyment, and I often go through my list and lower the scores. It's hard to be more on the objective side if you're hyped up after watching something. My friends' scores don't really matter to me, everyone has a different taste. I usually just ask why did they give a high/low score to a certain title because I'm curious! |
| What are friends, are they some kind of food? |
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| I rate based on my own opinion though I often find myself being less harsh on shows that friends of similar taste enjoy. And even if I end up disliking one of my friend's favourites, I won't insult them for it. I enjoy seeing other people's perspectives of things. |
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| Lol I knew a guy who did that,he kept copying/lowering ratings for anime he used to love.Not only from me though. Ot:No,that's pretty stupid.I rate them how I feel about it.This site is called Myanimelist afterall. |
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| My irl friends only watch mainstream action anime. And I don't get influenced by anything anyway. my mal friends, lol I don't even know what they like, I don't bother to check their ratings and scores. |
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| If I was to be super objective with my ratings then yeah, I'd say their ratings could influence mine. If they rate something low, and I'm looking to be objective I'd see a lot of the same flaws they did. But I rate more based on how much I enjoy it, objectivity is annoying. |
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TheBrainintheJar said: AttackOnTetris said: The best solution is to keep no friends. The integrity of your scores should take ultimate priority. Keep your friends close but keep your ratings closer! |
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