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Feb 7, 2020 8:51 AM
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BlakexEkalb said:

>”These scores are not to my taste so the scores on the entire site are invalid”.

Yes. Thus, subjective scores are invalid in general.
Feb 7, 2020 9:08 AM

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Isn't that EXACTLY what you're saying about the scores people are giving this anime?

Hmm. Hmm.
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Feb 7, 2020 9:12 AM
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BlakexEkalb said:


>”These scores are not to my taste so the scores on the entire site are invalid”.


The entire system are based on nothing objective, It's just people opinion. Animes that got more viewers and more media in general will get more fans and score more... And in the end what matters is your personal taste...

I've really loved all the Lupin III series, in my personal opinion It deserves a much higher score, but so What? Even if the score is low I still like the series and I'll still watch everything new on Lupin III...

I dont give a crap about the community score, I don't need validation of my personal taste based on opinion of others... The only one that's knows what I like or not is myself...
Feb 7, 2020 9:16 AM
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Sarteck said:


Isn't that EXACTLY what you're saying about the scores people are giving this anime?

Hmm. Hmm.


Once again, since you are an extremely dense person after I’ve explained it multiple times: being directly told to go and manipulate a score because an influential person said so is not right.
Feb 7, 2020 9:17 AM
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Honestly, I couldn't care less about scores on this website.
The only exception is the fact ishuzoku reviewers got #2 rank
Because it's funny to see people triggered by that lmao
Feb 7, 2020 9:21 AM

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BlakexEkalb said:
Sarteck said:


Isn't that EXACTLY what you're saying about the scores people are giving this anime?

Hmm. Hmm.


Once again, since you are an extremely dense person after I’ve explained it multiple times: being directly told to go and manipulate a score because an influential person said so is not right.
And since you don't get it, I'll tell you once again. There's nothing wrong with being told to check out an anime, checking it out, liking it, even LOVING it, and rating it a 10.

That someone asked you to is irrelevant. Your like or dislike for the anime is what matters when you are rating it.

This is such a simple concept, but you can't grasp it.
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Feb 7, 2020 9:39 AM

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Sarteck said:
BlakexEkalb said:


Once again, since you are an extremely dense person after I’ve explained it multiple times: being directly told to go and manipulate a score because an influential person said so is not right.
And since you don't get it, I'll tell you once again. There's nothing wrong with being told to check out an anime, checking it out, liking it, even LOVING it, and rating it a 10.

That someone asked you to is irrelevant. Your like or dislike for the anime is what matters when you are rating it.

This is such a simple concept, but you can't grasp it.
Nux Taku didn't tell his viewers to watch the anime and enjoy it, he specifically linked the mal page and asked his viewers to rate this anime a 10. Not because they enjoy the anime, but to start a movement. 60% of all these 10/10s come from people who never watched the anime or created an alt account just to give this anime an extra 10.

Enjoying an anime and giving it a 10 is one thing, giving an anime a 10 while not having watched the anime/make an alt account to give the anime an extra 10 just because someone told you to do so, that is another thing.
Feb 7, 2020 9:43 AM
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Nope. This is a timeless classic that deserves to be the #1 anime of all time. You mad that it isn't your favorite series, or just because it's ecchi.

2020 is the year ecchi officially takes it's rightful place at the top.
Feb 7, 2020 9:45 AM
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ye i can only think of an AI machine learning solution to this and even that is not fool proof solution
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Bunka_no_Otoko said:
Nope. This is a timeless classic that deserves to be the #1 anime of all time. You mad that it isn't your favorite series, or just because it's ecchi.

2020 is the year ecchi officially takes it's rightful place at the top.
Nah, people are mad cause Interspecies Reviewers is becoming the number one anime of all time not because of how much people enjoy, but because of people raiding the anime list because of a joke. This joke defeats the entire purpose of the site and brings some unwanted toxicity with it.
Feb 7, 2020 9:46 AM
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Honestly, it's not funny to me anymore. I checked the score data. That's pretty undeniable people are using bots to manipulate IR rates.

I did give it an 10/10 too. But I usually give high scores to series I complete, including FMAB.
It was an honest score from myself. It's genuinely a funny show.

Too bad it didn't get 1st place. It would've been hella funny! lmao
Feb 7, 2020 11:27 AM

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Thread moved from the Ishuzoku Reviewers sub-board.
Feb 7, 2020 1:17 PM
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Cashbrash said:
Reply from admin
https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=245618&show=4750#msg59087935

And on what basis ? are you questioning the legitimacy of what users like and don't I'm sorry do you think you know better than the individuals what they like

ja, sure, m8

illegitimate scores given by legitimate users [interspecies]
legitimate
l-e-g-i-t-i-m-a-t-e
ROFL

https://myanimelist.net/profile/gilmento
https://myanimelist.net/profile/LazarBosnjak
https://myanimelist.net/profile/Skarlaxion
https://myanimelist.net/profile/MidnaGamer64
https://myanimelist.net/profile/dave46
https://myanimelist.net/profile/BeigeKitsune
https://myanimelist.net/profile/iambackbig3
https://myanimelist.net/profile/dodanrki8
https://myanimelist.net/profile/HellPwnage1337

I am too lazy to look for more accounts like this. So my question is, how are they legitimate?
Feb 7, 2020 1:36 PM
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Groenboys said:
Bunka_no_Otoko said:
Nope. This is a timeless classic that deserves to be the #1 anime of all time. You mad that it isn't your favorite series, or just because it's ecchi.

2020 is the year ecchi officially takes it's rightful place at the top.
Nah, people are mad cause Interspecies Reviewers is becoming the number one anime of all time not because of how much people enjoy, but because of people raiding the anime list because of a joke. This joke defeats the entire purpose of the site and brings some unwanted toxicity with it.


So you are a mind reader then is what you're saying? Sure the score was artificially inflated by that YouTube vid, but it was also artificially deflated before that by sjw's (many of which didn't even watch anime period). It may not realistically be a 10 by all users but the 7.6 it had prior to the Nux video wasn't legit either.

That number was deflated by sjw's from buzzfeed who disliked the series because they thought it was making light of trans people.
Feb 7, 2020 1:44 PM

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I gave it a 10 the second I finished the first episode the day it aired, please do not devaluate this precious, honest, sincere, genuine ten.
"If the cuckoo doesn't sing, I guess I'm fine with that." - Natsuki Andou, Kitaku-bu Katsudou Kiroku
Feb 7, 2020 1:54 PM

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Well, I'll give it a 10/10, and I'm not a bot account
Feb 7, 2020 2:06 PM
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I plan to hive 10/10 cus I like the show. If my vote gets removed, that will validate my negative opinions of MAL and no longer use it like I have already been. I would not want to give more traffic.
Feb 7, 2020 2:24 PM
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Maybe it is time for MAL to adapt a different rating system like Anidb, VNDB or add an algorithm to avoid vote stuffing. Add a rating system that does not depend entirely on 1/10 and 10/10 votes

"VNDB uses a Bayesian system and ignores arithmetic average entirely, and it also offers a popularity rating that isn't made simply from just the number of people who played the VN"
Feb 7, 2020 3:56 PM
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Suggestion thread huh?

Here's a suggestion.This outrage is bigger than just Nux and Noble's fan bases. For many people this has become an issue of censorship (by funimation) on the behalf of people who are not even part of the anime community. (sjw's offended by this anime's perceived depiction of trans people)
In light of the episode's content that funimation decided to drop the series on (episode 3) I agree with this accessment.

As moderators if I were you I would be thankful for the influx of ad revenue the massive amount of new accounts have generated.

Sure remove any and all of the bot/duplicate accounts. (As those are truly illegitimate by anyone's definition)

However, if you were to do the exact same thing funimation did and censor the opinions of legitimate new accounts, I believe you would quickly find this community outrage directed squarely at MAL. Not to mention that it would remove any confidence in the votes provided here.

This is truly an amazing show, and likely the best of this season at a minimum. It is quickly becoming the Nekopara of 2020. The more ecchi fans who see this show, (and the resulting funimation fiasco) the more who will join our ranks.

A vote is a vote regardless of a person's rationale behind it.
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Feb 7, 2020 4:11 PM

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I don't know what the big deal is. These Nux people are clearly immigrants to our great site. It is completely silly to think flooding this site with Nux immigrants would change the voting demographics.
Feb 7, 2020 4:48 PM
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MehmetY said:
Writing a bot which will give 20K 1 or 10 votes to an anime by using your programming skills and using your fanbase to mob scoring on an anime are two sides of the same coin. Both of them are funny at start but if you exaggerate that and start to cause trouble for admins and moderators it won't be funny anymore. This event was funny for me at the beginning because I'm following MAL scores just for fun but this boosting thing went too far and started to causing trouble for admins and moderators, which isn't funny if you're a decent person.


If someone were willing to take the time and effort to write botnet malware (ignoring the fact that that would be impossible in one day), and risk a felony there are many more fruitful things they could have done with it.

Botnets have a very short lifespan in the wild due to Antivirus software and OS diversity. People create, rent, or hijack botnets to make millions in the real world.

Using a botnet here would be equivalent to risking a felony for the armed robbery of a lemonade stand. Except in the case of the botnet you could potentially face a felony charge for every computer infected by your botnet.

This is simply democracy in action. Who are you or anyone else to be the gatekeepers of determining whether or not the rationale behind someone's vote is legitimate or not?
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deg said:
ye i can only think of an AI machine learning solution to this and even that is not fool proof solution


Let us know when you've got that source code hammered out. ;)
Feb 7, 2020 5:13 PM
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a shout out to nux and chibi for pointing me in the direction of this funny anime! i didn't need them to tell me to upvote it..this series deserves it!
Feb 7, 2020 5:18 PM

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This is just one big meme/joke, just let it happen it will die down and this site will return to its 'normal' trashy self. (Its not because of so called influencers that people are joining this, its because it is a JOKE)

I guess the only issue a lot of people are having is that this is akin to a hentai and its getting so much publicity so that must be bad. But if it was like the pingu meme it wouldn't be such an issue.

I personally really like the anime and yeah I gave it a 10 and am prob gonna leave it at that when the show finishes just because the people on this site and the mods are annoyed by it.

Stop baiting the 10s and it will end soon.

Baa


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Bunka_no_Otoko said:
deg said:
ye i can only think of an AI machine learning solution to this and even that is not fool proof solution


Let us know when you've got that source code hammered out. ;)


Machine learning is not at all necessary, just some common sense and better mechanisms. Someone mentioned VNDB's algorithms for example. The current MAL system is retard simple, therefore retard easy to break.

This doesn't even address social aspects like how some users spin their own rating system, and the vast majority that spam 10s on anything they remotely like, 7-9 on everything else, and 1s on things that tickle their personal sensibilities the wrong way. Without a cohesive rating system, the score is meaningless. You can't expect me to believe we have six million experienced and totally fair reviewers that know what they're doing. Hell, I fully admit I'm lazy and biased af.

Ratings and scores make sense on the personal lists, but using those scores for aggregate assumed-almost-gospel MAL scores is absolutely stupid. MAL scores should be axed but that ain't happening since corpo makes money off the scores, and likely anything changed won't actually fix the longest term boosting/negging simply because easy to market shows litter the top 50 like straws in the ocean and that is good for business. Let's be honest here.
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This is a problem. If you don't see it as a problem then there's something wrong with you. The rating system exists in the first place so that people can have a candid view of what shows are popular, or highly regarded, or not.

It's a resource for people who enjoy anime. Anyone who intentionally skews that resource as a joke is fundamentally destroying the functioning purpose of the rating system and rendering it's existence useless and pointless.

Imagine buying a Chinese manufactured children's car seat because it had high consumer ratings, but those ratings were actually faked by the company who made the seat, and in fact the seat was made out of hazardous amounts of lead and the seat belt was prone to snapping off. Well those consumer reports are rubbish and need to be removed. Likewise, I agree that the scores for Ishuzoku reviewers needs to be reset. I'd even go as far as deleting all of the fake accounts and banning their IP's.
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You need to look at the Stats section. None of those have been trolled. Only when you look at Chihayafuru 3 and Ishuzoku reviewers can you see the overwhelmingly disproportionate amount of either 10's or 1's.

For Chihafuru 3:

5
0.9% (80 votes)
4
0.3% (29 votes)
3
0.5% (48 votes)
2
0.1% (10 votes)
1
16.9% (1560 votes)
Feb 7, 2020 9:49 PM

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With all the name calling and abusive/harassing language being used by both sides in this thread, I'm amazed this tread is still open.
Feb 7, 2020 9:50 PM

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This issue has been depressing for a long while now, and with this, it's hard to separate the legitimate users from all the immigrants this place had since for time millenia.

I'd agree that to imitate other listing websites rating systems would be asinine to this issue, because it would mean that MAL would be down for quite a substantial amount of time (once again), but then again the issue of bots would not be 100% guaranteed gone.

Having the power to control these illegitmate accounts would prove useful for us while the mods iron out the database issue, because for more often than not, we can skunk out these trollers (as is with the main thread), but going one step further to deleting them and IPs as @Strayfe mentioned would be a good collaboration effort to keep this site alive and away from immigrants who'd have every right to bot vote and/or commit felony here.

At the end of the day, legitimate users wants in on this issue that we as daily users on MAL can also contribute to making this place great once again.
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What happened for Interspeciews Reviewers isn't vote brigading, just as much as any user voting for their favorite show isn't brigading. None of you have any basis in reality if you say otherwise. Unless we start to scrutinize the scores of everyone in an objective manner (good luck, can't wait for someone to explain their method, KEK), you're just discriminating here based on elitism.




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Hitler was good, objectively.
Feb 8, 2020 2:15 AM

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Thread Locked.

Thread started off as a complaint, which is why it was moved here, but right now it's just the same as all the other threads about the rating, so therefore it's now locked. See below for the reasoning:


Due to the massive thread creation unrelated to the anime itself (story, staff, etc.) and the massive amounts of baiting, trolling, abuse, etc. all threads relating to this issue are now locked.

Use the following thread if you must discuss this topic: https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=1823998


What happened to the score?
On Wednesday, one YouTuber told his 1 million followers to go to MAL, register an account if necessary, and vote Ishukozu Reviewers a 10. Another YouTuber with 1.4 million followers has now jumped on the bandwagon and told his followers to do the same.

Will this be fixed?
Yes. MyAnimeList will not tolerate vote brigading.

When will it be fixed?
Before this incident, the new scoring algorithm created to combat vote manipulation by duplicate accounts was already slated for mid-February. A method to combat vote brigading will now be included as well. Please see Kineta's post for more information.

How will you fix it?
Please wait for Kineta's announcement.
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