How many points do you use in your scale for rating anime?
| It's popular on MAL to not use the bottom 5 points of the scale, either due to laziness or out of a moral obligation to reward the creators for their efforts (or make them look down on you if the creators actually hated their own project and were just making it for money). Some people consider themselves to "still be using a 10 point scale but only be using the top half", and you should still count this as 5 points. I've also seen some people use more points than normal for extra accuracy, like Digibro with his 40 point scale. Anilist even gives a 20 point option and a 100 point option. What system do you use? Do you think MAL would be more accurate if more people rated like you or do you think your own system is only meant to be easy and other systems would be better if you had more time to rate things and properly compare them to each other? If you don't use all the points MAL gives is it because of an existing system you know in the real world like school grading systems or something else like not wanting to decrease an anime's mean score if your experience with it was positive? Do you think an 11-20 scale sounds like it would be easier to use than a 1-10 scale? |
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| I find the 1-10 system to not be bad at all, sure more detailed one's like adding .5 would be helpful in some cases, but it's not the end of the world As for how many points used, 9 out of 10 because nothing can be that bad to warrant a 1...right? |
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| I think for me the biggest factor in how I rate is in my enjoyment and overall satisfaction with a series. If it explores themes that are uncomfortable I won't downvote it just because of that. I take genre into consideration as well because you can't expect the plot of an SOL CGDCT anime to be anything close to a good Psych/Thriller. 5 would be an expectations met kind of deal. Below 5 is unsatisfied and above 5 is satisfied. I prefer to write reviews because they express my thoughts better than numbers can. |
moe_samaJun 9, 2019 11:08 AM
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| If you use less than 10 you should honestly be banned... (I'm refering of course to those that think that a 5 is a 10) |
CordobezEverdeenJun 9, 2019 11:14 AM
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Iyya said: I use 1-10 scale and my rating is actually following bell curve which skewed a bit. I guess it can be seen my looking at my mean score which is in the 5 - 5.5 interval. Me too. I actually only started using the entire scale last year, though. It took me watching a really bad anime for me for me to realize that I needed my scores to more closely represent my enjoyment. And actually I'm going through my entire list again in an attempt to get more of a bell-curve shape, as I feel like I still might be being a bit to generous with some of my higher scores. You can even see it in my signature - it's a bit of an ugly graph right now, with a positive skew and a bit too leptokurtic for my liking |
| 5 (6-10 or equivalent) (your vote) but if i think the anime is bad then i rate it as 4 although i like to have at least the scoring system to be in decimal system from 1-5 scale at least so i can score an anime like 4.3 or 4.7 or something |
| I tier. For example, I have low 9 (Fate/Zero, Gunbuster, Mob II), solid 9 (FMAB, Serial Experiments Lain, End of Eva/Evangelion), and high 9 (LOTGH, Welcome to the NHK, Made in Abyss.) I do that for every number. Additionally, I have Steins;Gate which is my Gatekeeper Anime, and anything better then Steins;Gate gets a 10/10 from me. I almost never use 1, 2 or 3, simply because I generally dont watch bad anime if i can avoid it. |
| I use the German style 1-6 with 1 meaning the best and 6 the worst. |
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I use the full 1-10 scale. Although, the list is top heavy, because if a show is 5 or below I'm just going to abandon ship and I wouldn't go out of my way to intentionally look for and watch and complete bad shows I won't like.  |
KruszerJun 9, 2019 1:36 PM
| "Laws exist only for those who cannot live without clinging onto them." -Souske Aizen "Bleach"  |
| 1-10 , but most 5/10 or under I drop. Can't be bothered to make rating any more complex. In short it's by a gut feeling and long variant on my profile. To know how that so-called gut feeling rating works. |
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| If you answered "10," but fewer than 5% of the titles on your list you rated 1/10, 2/10, 3/10, then you're lying. |
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zombie_pegasus said: What system do you use? Do you think MAL would be more accurate if more people rated like you or do you think your own system is only meant to be easy and other systems would be better if you had more time to rate things and properly compare them to each other? If you don't use all the points MAL gives is it because of an existing system you know in the real world like school grading systems or something else like not wanting to decrease an anime's mean score if your experience with it was positive? Do you think an 11-20 scale sounds like it would be easier to use than a 1-10 scale? I've used the whole scale of 1-10.  I think that MAL scores would ultimately never be "more accurate" even if people did rate using the full scale that MAL provides. I believe this is the best we as a collective can do for accurate scores. Trying to get more accurate scores as a collective is one whole other beast to try to tackle. I do believe that 1-10 is an easier system when compared to a 1-20 and 1-100, as having only ten tiers that supports only 5 tiers of liking it, making it easier to group the shows. I would love to adopt the 1-100 score tier however I believe that I would only be able to apply it to the upper echelons of the shows I've seen. I'm currently attempting to try it on anilist but it's a work in progress, however the ability differentiate between how I feel about the shows are able to be shown is quite fun. However, also having the chance to explain myself in my 1-10 scale is not a bad thing as the 1-100 doesn't leave much in terms of imagination. It's a strange double-edged sword. |
| 10 because of MAL's limitation. If whenever MAL decides to extend the rating scale by adding decimal values (.5 or every qtr or more than that), I'll make sure to fully use the scale as I have already had preparations for that in Excel |
MechKingKillbotJun 9, 2019 4:03 PM
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| I use whole scale, but it's rare that an anime is seriously so bad on every aspect that I give it a 3. I try to avoid those kinds of shows altogether, which probably is the reason I don't have very many shows rated that lowly. I try to be as objective as I can while rating, which means I can give many shows similiar ratings. What I have observed is that most shows that I have watched are mediocre, which for me seems to be anywhere from 5-7 on MAL rating. That's why my average rating is where it is at. I am not chasing a truth when rating anyway. I just want to keep my anime list in check, you know. |
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I'm pretty happy with my scale it is a 1-10, but I don't know if it's for everyone. I think my scale is a lot easier to use since there's such a clear distinction between each part, unlike the vague "good" or "great" type scale that I did before. I also like how fast it is and I find the scale, personally, more accurate since the scores are more specific. Though I should mention this scoring system only really works if the said person is under the belief that quality causes enjoyment since its tier based with enjoyment being what makes something score negatively or positively. It also might be problematic for those who want to consider all parts when grading a show which would be reasonable and is probably most people. Btw, here's how much of the scale I use: I am, at the moment considering changing my 1 score, as its way too hard to find shows that fit into it. |
removed-userJun 9, 2019 5:52 PM
| 1-10 scale is already much enough, I can't believe how people think that more detailed scale like 1-20 or even 1-100 is a good idea.. Maybe it helps a little if you really calculated the score by segments like story, character, etc and then average it.. But when you still rated a show by feelings (including me), more than 1-10 scale is a stupid idea, except for people who care too much about MAL overall score and thinking that their score with difference 0.1 to overall score can give a significant boost to the said overall score.. I honestly belief 1-5 is actually a better idea for people to really use the scale properly from the lowest to highest.. For me I actually want to use 1-10 scale fully, but MAL definition of the score (7 mean good and 3 for very bad for example) inhibit me a little because I can't differentiate between 1,2 and 3.. And I don't want to watch a show I thinking bad too ... PS: For people with distribution that isn't normal/bell curve, I believe there are something wrong with how you rated animes until now.. If you want, you should redo all your scores imo ... |
Jim_HeartJun 9, 2019 6:37 PM
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| 1-10 scale is fine. Almost everything in my list is 6 or higher, but that's just because I did genuinely enjoy most of the things I watched. If I didn't enjoy it, I'd be fine with using 5 or less as a rating. |
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| I don't really see the point of a 10 point scale if you don't use the whole thing, or at least most of it. So far I've yet to give anything than a 3. |
| I just use a 10-sided die to determine my scoring for series. |
I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
| i don't rate anime anymore but when i did i used 1-10 |
| What should I pick if I use a rating system that's from 1 to 9, but mainly only using the odds (because they correspond to a five-point scale that spans almost the entire 1-10 scale given), but occasionally using the evens because I can? |
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I use 1-10. I also periodically go back and re-rate things. Like "I gave x and y a 6... was x really on par with y? Was x better?" etc. |
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Kruszer said: I use the full 1-10 scale. Although, the list is top heavy, because if a show is 5 or below I'm just going to abandon ship and I wouldn't go out of my way to intentionally look for and watch and complete bad shows I won't like. This is exactly what I do. I feel there is no reason to continue watching an anime I don't enjoy, unless it's a specific case (Nanatsu no Taizai 4 bullshit episodes). Since I don't rate dropped animes, my low scores are just sitting there with few entries. I'd rather have decimals to propperly refine the scale, though. A 20 point system would be the best option for me. |
| I've been using the 1-10 scale for as long as I can remember and will continue to do so since is the most effective rating format for me. Everyone should at least attend to use it, instead of using a outrages school scale 7-10 that does nothing but mess up the entire ranking because some of people can't help being too generous while scoring shows. And look is not like I'm expecting people to rate the same way as me, but at the very least rate in a sense that your scores feels as though they have more way on weight and meaning on them. I'm for sure can tell how much mines are whenever I look at my graph:  |
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| 1-10, need those 1s for boku no pico and shits |
| in most cases I'll rate an anime with 12+ episodes like this: 10- Masterpiece, loved every second of it 09- so close to being 10, but had a few negatives 08- it was good and I certainly enjoyed it 07- something bothered me, I wasn't able to enjoy every episode of it 06- meh, watched it but it had a few (based on enjoyment) boring episodes 05- certainly won't watch it again and won't tell anyone it is good; either boring, story doesn't make sense or unlikeable characters 04- trash, serious trash; I actually hated sth about it haven't rated anything lower than 4 Now I have a 2nd scale I use for anime (if you can call it like that) for shorts 01- yep absolute trash in every possible way 02- trash that doesn't totally suck in everything 03- still trash but it had sth ok 04- not 100% trash bc it had a purpose, may it be a music video or a tiny bit of story 05- not a total waste of my time 06- excells at either story or art 07- this has to be really good, amazing story for a short 08- perfection of a short haven't rated anything higher than this My rating system is based on this: I won't give a score lower than 4 to a full TV anime because I know that a lot of work went into it, on the other hand I won't rate any short higher than 8 because it's just a short and can't come close to what a full TV anime can do. |
| I use the whole scale i.e 1-10. Even if people used the whole scale, there wouldn't be any accuracy. Just like the present scores some will find them as accurate and some will not. Though, I don't compare shows to each other while rating them. |
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| All 10, of course. Whenever I start a show, if I can give a 6 or 7 by the end of it I'll be happy, as those are my "good" scores. Anything above that is truly memorable, but even then, I need three scores to differentiate between just how great these shows are. Using less than the entire scale wouldn't give me any wiggle room at all. Idk how people could not use the entire thing, tbh. |
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| I'd say I use 9 points to score. I have some problems with a 3. Titles are usually either bad enough to get 2 or good enough to get 4. The gap between 2 and 3 is too narrow. All my 3s are accidental and all of them could be a 2 or a 4 instead. I just turn some 2s and 4s into 3 to maintain the appearance of my graph :D |
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Full scale of course. It was made to be used. And I'm tryig to achieve a reasonable distribution to uphold the value of each score. |
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| 1 through 5 have bad characters and bad writing. Lower value means more intense hatred for the characters. Could be a single character, could be multiple. 6 has good characters, but bad writing. 7 has good characters and good writing, but is too much of a tease. 8 and 9 have almost everything I want, making them bittersweet. Difference in value is based on how much is missing. 10 has EVERYTHING I want. |
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zombie_pegasus said: It's popular on MAL to not use the bottom 5 points of the scale, either due to laziness or out of a moral obligation to reward the creators for their efforts (or make them look down on you if the creators actually hated their own project and were just making it for money). I'm pretty sure its not the case that people don't use the bottom 5 points of the scale due to laziness or some moral obligation. In my experience I don't use (or extremely rarely use) use the bottom 5 of the points of the scale because I don't make a habit of finishing shows I don't enjoy and thus I rarely ever rate shows below 5. I can't imagine having an average score below 5, I would essentially be wasting my time watching shows i felt were bad. |
| Well, 5-point scale is more to my tastes. 5- Masterpiece 4-Good 3-Average 2-Lacking 1-Bad On MAL, I mostly rate ani/manga in the 5-10 range, because I am yet to find "Horrible" and "Apalling" manga. There is only one manga I have rated 4 till this date, because of how seriously shoddy the work felt. |
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| I'd really like to use a 1-10 scale with middle scores, but mal doesn't allow that, so I just use the normal 1-10 scale |
| I always use the full extent of a rating system that's given to me and my scores are always contrasted. The values of these scores generally change depending on the medium ( they are slightly different in myanimelist and letterboxd for example) 10 being simply what I consider the best in one medium and 1 some of the worst things I can find in it. I think the part of being contrasted is what's more important as it's kind of a tier system where if I think one of my 6 is not as good as the others I lower it to a 5, etc so what piles up into the bottom will be different everytime. |
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| I use a five point system. Most modern Anime doesn't posses enough depth of complexity to warrant large grading parameters. |
| Definitely use the whole scale. I have very few anime actually rated below five, but that's because I try to avoid watching bad anime, and will generally drop one before I've watched enough to rate it. |
| I use the full 1-10 scale. It just makes the most sense to me, with 5 meaning average. Only two anime have the honour of getting a 1/10 so far. |
| I use the 1-10. But yeah a .5 would be cool imo. |
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| I use 1-10 but lately I try to drop early what I hate or think isn't worth my time and I don't rate dropped anime, so I expect my mean score to go up unless something will piss me off in the end or degrades painfully after I already decided not to drop it. |
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zombie_pegasus said: I think it's more that one's just not going to watch whatever one already knows to be shit and if it quickly turns out to be then one just stops before feeling one can actually rate it.It's popular on MAL to not use the bottom 5 points of the scale, either due to laziness or out of a moral obligation to reward the creators for their efforts (or make them look down on you if the creators actually hated their own project and were just making it for money). Some things are just unenjoyable to me 10 minutes in; I won't watch it further but I don't feel like I can in good conscience rate something based on 10 minutes either even though if I went on it would probably be a 2 or something. What system do you use? Do you think MAL would be more accurate if more people rated like you or do you think your own system is only meant to be easy and other systems would be better if you had more time to rate things and properly compare them to each other? I think all ratings should be percentile based rather than an arbitrary scale; it should just be "63%" as in "I consider this better than 63% of shows out there."If you don't use all the points MAL gives is it because of an existing system you know in the real world like school grading systems or something else like not wanting to decrease an anime's mean score if your experience with it was positive? Do you think an 11-20 scale sounds like it would be easier to use than a 1-10 scale? In fact I think a more interesting system would be not allowing users to give anything a rating but forcing them to order everything they watched from least to most favorite and based on that compute the average percentile score to display. Or maybe just use both and list them next to each other. |
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| I have meaningful use for scores 4-10. I don't bother sorting the really bad stuff, so it's likely to all be rated 4. Sphinxter said: In fact I think a more interesting system would be not allowing users to give anything a rating but forcing them to order everything they watched from least to most favorite and based on that compute the average percentile score to display. Sounds like a full-time job, not a useful site to keep track of what I watched. |
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