| I'll often check random users' lists or lists of my friends and notice that they don't score everything they've completed. Some people score practically nothing, while others will leave only a couple things here and there unscored. I don't get why people do this. Is it to keep their mean score higher? Or are there other reasons too? |
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| Some people simply don't believe in scoring something they watched, others simply use their anime list simply for listing the things they've watched, and other people are simply too lazy. |
| I think some people really like to think things through. Or maybe they watched those series a long time ago and haven't re-watched it yet. Or they're just lazy. |
| Too lazy to quantify their opinion, are aware that their opinions are subject to change, or feel that it's too subjective to be expressed in a single integer between 1 and 10, inclusive. |
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| Ah okay, that all makes sense then.. worldeditor11 said: To help determine a more accurate average score for the show, so when people are looking for things to watch and check the score first, they can judge based on that. Obvs your one score won't affect the average too much but if so many people don't score shows it can affect it.Why should I? I watch anime for entertainment and not as a medium to perform an objective metrics on. |
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| When I initially started using MAL, I only used it to list the anime I'd seen and nothing else, rather than using Notepad or something like that. I didn't bother doing anything extra on my profile whatsoever. It was only after I started frequenting the forums that I started to pad out my profile a little, adding scores, favourites, etc. |
 It's an entirely different kind of flying, altogether! It's an entirely different kind of flying. |
| Sometimes, they have forgotten to rate it, sometimes they don't want to, others use it for keeping track of them |
| Because they don't get why they should rate them? Not everyone likes to be a critic. |
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| Maybe it was really weird and they dont know how to score it or they cant be bothered or they watched it a long time ago and just cant remember. |
| I guess I score the anime I watch for fun, I don't really care if other people don't score what they watch, it's their choice after all. |
| Everyone has the free will to do what do they think is right. Besides, what makes you bother about that matter, OP? |
BlackMageNo1 said: My OCD. :P Lists feel so incomplete when there's a couple or a lot of things unscored.Everyone has the free will to do what do they think is right. Besides, what makes you bother about that matter, OP? |
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| LAAZY. for me that is. I don't score much at all |
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| Finding numerical scores inadequate, or purposely leaving them off so they won't feed people's preconceptions (it's the same with having no favorites, or one). They could also just not care or be lazy. |
| I rarely score anime, I'm using my anime list just for listing and see how many I've completed and to keep track of the episodes I watched. Not everyone can't be bothered to fill in those score since its meaningless on this site anyways. |
| I personally don't have some shows rated, because I watched them years ago and don't have a fair critical opinion for them. That's why I'm re-watching a couple of shows, including DRR!!. Others may only watch anime for enjoyment and don't believe in rating. |
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| 1. Because sometimes I'm just too lazy or too tired to do so. 2. Just like someone has already said, opinion is subject to change in time. As an example, when I started watching anime, 10 years ago, I used to think that Elfen Lied was a masterpiece, one of the best series ever made. It had a big impact on me at that time. 3 years ago I decided to re watch it and ,oh boy, did I find so many flaws in it. It's nowhere near a 10/10. Even the current score I gave it's way too much given the way the story developed ( 8/10 mostly for ost, graphics that were top notch for 2004, character design, original premise - liked the whole vector and mutant thing, gore scenes, back story for some characters and personal nostalgia). Likewise, the are shows and genres that I couldn't really get into back then, yet I find myself enjoying them more in the present. Given all this it would be a pain in the ass to go every 2 years and re-rate everything on my list based on how my opinion changed in the meantime.Plus, it doesn't really matter, just because I don't believe that Elfen Lied is a perfect 10, doesn't really mean I enjoy it any less when I decide to re-watch it. |
Don't talk to me about character development if Kaizuka Inaho or Slaine Troyard are in your favorites. |
| They just want to have a checklist? Another possible reason is when someone creates an account after already watching hundreds of anime. They probably wouldn't bother to rate any. It's too much work. |
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| Firstly not scoring anything doesn't make me feel heavy anymore. Second, I think It's quite bothersome as the scores actually more intended for other people rather than yourself anyway, so I'd keep my opinion to myself and if only someone ask me whether about thought or recommendation, then I'll tell them about it. Lastly, I'm just lazy. |
| I'm too weird to live but much too rare to die. |
| I like scoring anime. It gives me the false sense that my opinion is important when in reality I know that nobody cares what I think. |
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| Some people just watch anime because they enjoy it and don't want to critically evaluate it.. |
Orange said: Another possible reason is when someone creates an account after already watching hundreds of anime. They probably wouldn't bother to rate any. It's too much work. Yeah, when I made an account on MAL, I had already completed 100 series. 4blaze2it0 said: Some people just watch anime because they enjoy it and don't want to critically evaluate it.. Pretty much this. |
Don't talk to me about character development if Kaizuka Inaho or Slaine Troyard are in your favorites. |
| i sometimes not score because i still have seasons to watch from that anime that i feel could change my opinion |
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| They don't care enough to score it.. |
| I won't score something if I fell asleep watching it (I usually watch at night) or didn't think it was anything above average. I don't want my list to be filled with tons of 5/10's because of mediocre shorts. If I feel like a show demanded attention from me, then I'll give it some after viewing it. |
  Rarity is Best Pony! |
| The only reason I can think of to do it is because of the whole compatibility thing on this site and maybe for suggestion purposes. I'm not interested in any of those. |
Orange said: They just want to have a checklist? Another possible reason is when someone creates an account after already watching hundreds of anime. They probably wouldn't bother to rate any. It's too much work. This is the reason for me. I need a list to keep track of all my anime/manga I finished and am currently reading. Also I have watched/read 100's of anime/manga so there is no way I can even begin to add those to my account as this account was created last week I believe. |
| I feel cockblocked whenever some one doesn't score his list . It's even worse when he/she sets it to private . But at a point I didn't rate anything since I generally enjoyed most of what I watched and so didn't bother with much else . |
| Wohooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo |
| Why would you care anyways, it's not going to affect your daily life i think |
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| Because not all people like giving anime a score, or they feel it's a chore. Probably they feel happier that way |
 (っ◔◡◔)っ 𝓘 𝔀𝓲𝓼𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾 𝓪𝓵𝓵 𝓱𝓪𝓿𝓮 𝓪 𝔀𝓸𝓷𝓭𝓮𝓻𝓯𝓾𝓵 𝓭𝓪𝔂 ♥ |
| Some people don't want to, nothing wrong with that |
| Probably they don't want others to find out about their terrible taste ╮(╯▽╰)╭ |
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Couldn't care less. Though I'd probably be judged for giving 10/9 to some shows xD I had a rating system (based on pure enjoyment), but I deleted it. Why? Beacuse, this is hobby for relaxation, and I don't want to think too much about flaws. Now I mainly put them in awesome/good/mediocre/awful category (somewhere in my mind) xD And in my previous rating some with the same score were kinda still different in quality and I'd often changed a lot of scores. |
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| Because nobody forces them to do so, I assume. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| Pretty much this. OP you can close the thread now. |
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| lazyness. Trust me I know first-hand. |
Paul-Phoenix said: Are you using some kind of alien language ? Shorten it to 20 words or less. I think if they don't care enough to let a rigid scoring system determine objectively how entertaining subjective entertainment really is to them, they won't really care enough whether if you think their taste is shit or not, you elitist troll....... And when and how did I become an elitist ? True that. Even I sometimes forget to add a show even after watching them because of laziness . But when I set it to completed , I always try to rate it. What surprises/annoys me most are the people who hasn't scored a single show in their list. |
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| I used to not score anything when I started using this site, basically because I dont cared about it. |
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| At first I honestly rate anime I watched, but I don't rate OVA's or Movies. The reason I don't rank OVA's or Movies is because it is excluded to the specific anime and just at least 20 mins worth of my time, to me that 20 mins is insignificant or will not really affect the anime itself. For the movies, is also the same. I don't rate anime any more because it's now getting boring and there's no really point in doing so. |
| They don't want others to know what they believe about an anime/manga they're bored they don't care about the scores |
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| I've watched/read some series years ago, and I can't be bothered to rewatch or to think the ratings through. Yet I want to have a list. Other than that there're a lot of series I drop - in anime and manga I let myself to drop or pick up things freely. So sometimes I don't think it's right for me to rate the series in their entirety. There're complex cases, like when I enjoyed a couple of episodes, a single character, but skipped some parts. Or I may feel that I am not the target audience, and hate something because of my own mistake. Or I don't care. Basically, I rate randomly, if I feel like it. But that's my lists, and it's enough for me. I think that it's no one elses's business, and if someone for some ungodly reason wants to know my opinion, wants recommendations for manga or disagrees, they can pm or comment. Wrote a couple of reviews, when I thought it could be useful. |
deadoptimistJan 24, 2016 10:55 AM
| They just don't want to most likely. But I'm sure they all have their own reasons for doing the things they do. |
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