| Assuming MALgraph is to be trusted the global average mean score on MAL is 7.14. That being said having a mean score over 7 is considered to be a completely average viewer. Conversely you could argue that if the mean score is higher than 8.15 they're being too forgiving or generous, while conversely if you have a mean score below 6.15 you're probably too harsh and pessimistic. As for the people who throw around 10s everyone has their own system, if their system is only score the shows they loved a 10 and leave everything else blank sure it throws off their mean score. But really it's not a system that's enforcing everyone to rate really anything at all. But all these things basically fall under one large umbrella, people will rate however they want and they will generally gravitate towards shows they would enjoy. Thus will rate based on the enjoyment that was given. In addition as several people have said they won't even go through the trouble of adding a dropped show to their list and/or scoring it. |
GamerDLMMay 26, 2016 9:38 AM
-Senpai- said: RikkuSama said: Yo look. You're talking about anime casuals, right? They are more or less the opposite of anime elitists and elitists are imo people that don't enjoy anime... while anime casuals are the ones who pretty much enjoy everything. This means anime casuals wins. I don't see any problem ! Watching mediocre series and call it masterpiece is not winning... Hmm.. I feel it is. Cuz that's your opinion, but they also have an opinion. |
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| Level of weebness has nothing to do with the way you rate what you watch afaik. And the way you rate what you watch differs from user to user: your definition of a 10 isn't the same as that of your neighbor, and their definition will differ from that of their neighbor (i.e. nope, 10 doesn't mean "le best of ALLTIEM" to everyone). Also the mean score doesn't really mean much by itself, since there could be a variety of scenarii behind it that don't match your hypotheses: for eg. a user might have watched a number of average/decent shows, but their average score might be raised thanks to the few very good ones they've completed and rated highly. The number of anime watched, how wide their rating spectrum is, and lots of other variables to take into a consideration before making assumptions. (now that i think about it, maybe the median would be a better indicator?) and like some ppl already said, if the users you're talking about "literally liked everything they watched" i can assure you their mean score would be muuch higher than just 7 |
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But their opinion is unvalidated because it doesn't resemble mine. |
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RikkuSama said: Yo look. You're talking about anime casuals, right? They are more or less the opposite of anime elitists and elitists are imo people that don't enjoy anime... while anime casuals are the ones who pretty much enjoy everything. This means anime casuals wins. I don't see any problem ! Casuals? Nah.. I know plenty of so called 'elitists' who have a mean score over 7.. |
| Maybe, just maybe we choose anime carefully based on our taste and preferences and when we find something that isn't as entertaining as we thought it would be, we drop it instead of sitting through it like a masochistic bitch. There are at least 30/35 shows I tried watching but didn't end up liking them enough to sit through them. So, I dropped those by 4th/5th episode and never bothered to update my list and give those a rating. On the contrary, I find people with mean score near or lower than 5 to be weird. Or, what's the point of watching shitty anime that you know you will never like and will never be good! Unless of course, you are some sort of a professional critic or something. |
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| out of the animes iv watched i given a 10 to the one IN MY OPINION gave me the best hype of excitment i ever had while watching it. if i enjoyed something so much and loved it, it gets a 10 from me , regardless fo what you think, i dont give everything a 10, some animes are just meeh or eww or hey its good but not great. its called having an opinion. |
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| I think my mean score is around 9. You know why. I only watch things I think I'll enjoy. I'd almost argue that the "weebs" (which is a dumb term to use on this website of all places) are the people who have low average scores because they'll watch anything just because it's an anime. I have 213 completed shows with around a 9 average just cuz I enjoy everything I watch. I just really like anime. I don't force myself through a show I know I'll hate, so I don't have any low scores. |
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| Alright ! :( Gesu- said: RikkuSama said: Yo look. You're talking about anime casuals, right? They are more or less the opposite of anime elitists and elitists are imo people that don't enjoy anime... while anime casuals are the ones who pretty much enjoy everything. This means anime casuals wins. I don't see any problem ! Casuals? Nah.. I know plenty of so called 'elitists' who have a mean score over 7.. Oooh really? Didn't know that ! Sorry then! I clarify what I said, and I change the term 'elitists' to 'people who rate anime as if they hated it' |
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zal said: Mamster-P said: Then BlazBlue: Alter Memory must have been really awful since ruined your perfect mean score xDWtf? some ppl like me are just easily entertained, we love anime as a whole and dont gI've a shit to "criticize" what we watch OT: No, simply because the definition of weeb is not related to the score. very rarely do i watch an anime and this, "wtf is this complete garbage?" yea.... i did think that about blazblue |
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Doomdoctor said: On the contrary, I find people with mean score near or lower than 5 to be weird. Or, what's the point of watching shitty anime that you know you will never like and will never be good! Unless of course, you are some sort of a professional critic or something. Why do people look at trainwrecks? Hell, sometimes they're even fun to look at.. Besides, don't need to be paid monthly to be critical of things.. |
| Last time I rated an anime 10 was in 2015 summer season, last time I rated anime 9 was in 2016 winter season, last time I rated an anime 8 was 1 week ago....does it make me a weeaboo prince??? My mean score is 6.50+ |
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| Doesn't mean they are necessarily weebs, but more like people who enjoy a lot of things. Unless they (try to) speak Japanese in their daily life or are ashamed of not being Japanese, they are not weebs. |
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Gesu- said: True, but having a mean score of 3 or below while having over 500 shows watched means you clearly hate a majority of what you watch(ed), so why watch anime in the first place? A mean score of 5 is ok tho, since that essentially means you enjoyed half of what you watched and disliked the other half.Doomdoctor said: On the contrary, I find people with mean score near or lower than 5 to be weird. Or, what's the point of watching shitty anime that you know you will never like and will never be good! Unless of course, you are some sort of a professional critic or something. Why do people look at trainwrecks? Hell, sometimes they're even fun to look at.. Besides, don't need to be paid monthly to be critical of things.. |
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Snappynator said: Gesu- said: True, but having a mean score of 3 or below while having over 500 shows watched means you clearly hate a majority of what you watch(ed), so why watch anime in the first place? A mean score of 5 is ok tho, since that essentially means you enjoyed half of what you watched and disliked the other half.Why do people look at trainwrecks? Hell, sometimes they're even fun to look at.. Besides, don't need to be paid monthly to be critical of things.. People with mean scores of below 4 are slightly messed up in the head tho tbh.. Obligatory: @Deago |
| my mean score is like 7.50 1-5 ratings are pretty much non-existent to me because 6 is bad enough. If it was a 5 or less, I wouldn't have watched it in the first place. |
Gesu- said: Doomdoctor said: On the contrary, I find people with mean score near or lower than 5 to be weird. Or, what's the point of watching shitty anime that you know you will never like and will never be good! Unless of course, you are some sort of a professional critic or something. Why do people look at trainwrecks? Hell, sometimes they're even fun to look at.. Besides, don't need to be paid monthly to be critical of things.. For me, most trainwrecks don't fall into the "So bad it'd Good(or entertaining)" category. While sometimes bad anime can be a pretty entertaining watch like many ecchi shows. But I fail to see the point or appeal of completing a boring and bad anime or an anime that I know, I won't like. Heck, I even dropped UBW second season not because I thought of it as a boring or a bad anime (I didn't), but because the overall themes and execution was beyond my comfort zone(and I disliked Shirou). |
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| I dont know man, I am just lil bit above 7. So I dont even know what to think lel |
| You have to consider also the number of anime seen by that person, cause usually the first chosen are always the best in term of tastes (as i did) then you start picking a lil bit of everything and the rating goes down |
| Grades are just grades, weebs and elitists doesen't exist ;) |
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Z-Dante said: Is this b8? >.> @Gesu- , what makes you think people with mean score lower then 7 aren't weebs or haters? They're weebs too. It's just that they fall into a higher position in the weeb hierarchy.. |
| lol that thread title NOW THIS IS SHITPOSTING On topic: I think people with high mean scores just use the rating system differently. Doesn't reflect on their standards or intelligence. |
Gesu- said: Wah.... Z-Dante said: @Gesu- , what makes you think people with mean score lower then 7 aren't weebs or haters? They're weebs too. It's just that they fall into a higher position in the weeb hierarchy.. Before we had just weebs and elitists... Now we have different level among them too >.> ? |
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| A variety of factors which have already been addressed for the most part. Some people simply like to enjoy their shows and not care about anything else. Others may have a different rating system from the standard. There are also those newer to the medium and/or those whose taste has yet to be refined. None of the above is necessarily wrong. |
Z-Dante said: Gesu- said: Wah.... They're weebs too. It's just that they fall into a higher position in the weeb hierarchy.. Before we had just weebs and elitists... Now we have different level among them too >.> ? Yep. If you have a mean score > 5 and have all of the 'big 6' elitist anime in your favorites you're top of the table stuff m8.. |
| They're just numbers xD People get too worked up over this. Thinking ratings make someone a superior person and fan is just silly. Just chill and enjoy the animu's! Or don't enjoy them xD Either way is fine. |
| I'm just picky, i can lower it pretty fast if i begin to watch ecchi and harem shows. |
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GamerDLM said: Assuming MALgraph is to be trusted the global average mean score on MAL is 7.14. Yay I'm nearly exactly on the mean A+ - 9/10 A - 9 A- - 8 B+ - 8 B - 7 B- - 7 C+ - 6 C - 6 C- - 5 D - < 5 I want it to be possible for my opinion to be able to be compared to the mean score on mal |
| The purpose of any show is to entertain,toy with your emotions and a lot of other stuff. If the show managed to hit that mark then by all means I would give it a 7 only those that really went deep and captivated the viewer would get a 9 or 10.I rate my shows based on enjoyment and based on the factors above.What intrigues me is why do you even care about other people's rating? |
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| So, am i considered a weeb because of my score? |
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| My mean score is 6.97. Yes!! I'm safe. |
| My mean score is like, 8-something, but that's mostly because I'm not too deep into the guidelines that MAL puts by the numbers for the ratings because I think it kind of lowballs it. I just think of it being like 10 would be scoring a 100 on a test, 9 would be scoring a 90, 8 would be scoring an 80, and so forth. Basically, I don't think 5 is a good rating for average because an average anime to me would still be a passing grade, just not with flying colors. Not a 5/10 or anything, that feels way too low. So that's probably why my mean score is higher than most, I think, not because I'm a megaweeb who is madly in love with everything he watches. An 8/10 means very good to some people, but it's just easier for me to visualize that anime as being a "B" as a letter grade and so I rate it accordingly. |
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| I think it's more psychological than anything else. I know it was with me. I didn't want to give anything too low of a score simply because I thought it was mediocre. So if something is mediocre and you give it a 7, anything you like more than that is higher and anything you think sucks you turn off, you're gonna have a very high mean score. Also it has to do with people who have just watched less things. If you've only watched 20 shows, you probably gave all of them killer ratings(and they were probably the more popular/highly rated works) or you hated them and will never watch anime again and never signed up for MAL in the first place. |
| I Think my Mean Score is 8 or higher. I mean, I only watch Anime or Read manga that I have some information on before hand, that way I know out of the gate that it will be some worth the watch. I mean every anime will have it's fan and I can't blame anyone who just love's and rate's everything with a 10, does their score affect me? No. Also I think Lisbon nailed it../thread |
| In my case, i rate them based in enjoyment. So maybe many of the animes i have watched doesn't really deserve a 10, but i truly enjoyed them. I only rate below a 7 when the anime doesn't have something interesting (i try to avoid the ones that i think i wont like) |
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| Being a weeb more or less means that you think Japan is an absolutely flawless culture, and that all cultures pale in comparison to it. Liking anime so that your score is above 7 just means that you usually like most of the anime you watch, and it has no bearing on how highly you view Japan as a whole. People really need to stop finding new excuses just to insult others for their own enjoyment...Liking anime to any extent, great or small, doesn't mean "You're a weeaboo"... Also, because relevant: |
AzureNatlis99May 26, 2016 12:22 PM
| If most toxic anime fans' criteria and standards for considering problematic instances in anime "acceptable" were made into books, they'd be full of plot holes. |
| Because I only finish shows that I like, long has gone time where I tortured myself with shows that I don't like so I can just mark it as finished and put it on my list. If I don't find something at least "fine" or "good" I will not finish it, will drop it or put it on hold but won't log it it most cases, only time when I log something as dropped is if I really disliked it. |
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| lol I have a mean score of: 8.09 so what am I. People with a high mean score watch anime they like and if they don't like an anime they dropped it. That's how easy it is. |
IruMay 26, 2016 12:35 PM
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| Weeb=Someone that's crazy about Japanese culture (aka Japan). So how does a high average score make you a weeb? Doesn't that mean that the person in specific is someone that really enjoys anime a lot? ;P But I'm not going to deny that I'm a weeb, tho, lolz. And what some guys allready said the most obivious reason w hy average scores are high is, because most people tend to avoid the series they don't like. I for example avoid comedy and ''cheesy?'' anime. |
| I don't score comparatively. Just because I gave Monster a 10 doesn't mean I can't give K-On the same score. MAL's rating system is but an over simplified reflection of my very complex thoughts towards shows, as I tailor scores to match the contents of the shows. So if I enjoyed a comedy, I won't say "not deep enough, 5/10." No, I score on how funny it was. |
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| Seeing that 7 in my book means OK, so a show that isn't special or something, I don't see why I would be a weeb because my margins of rating things are different. |
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| Some people just aren't impossible to please, unlike some people on this website |
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