| This has been bugging me recently, when I come across profiles who have a mean score of around 5 there are always nasty comments saying something along the lines of this, "With a mean score of 4.41, why don't you just stop watching anime? You clearly don't like it xD. Try some movies or tv shows." Do people not understand that every individual has a different scale when it comes to anime? For me, I believe that the people with a mean score around 5 are more correct than the majority of us because in a 1-10 scale 5 should indicate a average anime. |
 |
| People criticize users with low mean score because they are mean! Anyway, I do see the critics point, if a person doesn't like most anime they watch, they should watch something else. Otherwise, I don't really care what another's mean score is! |
| Oh, is that so? Looks like people still haven't been bugging me with my 'low' MEAN score as of now, but thanks for the heads up! I guess it's time for me being really worried! |
| Sorry, due to licensing limitations, this message is unavailable in your region. Please come drink tea, eat cake and procrastinate at the Cute Girls Doing Cute Things Club. We have simulwatches! \o/  |
naens said: I think the mean score shouldn't be visible / shown. It's a completely useless piece of information. I agree, I always thought that the mean score in both profile and anime shouldn't exist so people can start to rate anime honestly instead of giving into mob mentality. |
|
| I never bash on other's profiles for their mean score, I simply don't care, it's their choice and their rating system. And we also get that other extreme with guys that have a mean score of 9.5 which is funny. |
    |
| Who cares what other people mean score is, just watch anime and have a fun that is all that matters. |
 |
| >Do people not understand that every individual has a different scale when it comes to anime? no |
  |
Futz_ said: Why do you type "we"?This has been bugging me recently, when I come across profiles who have a mean score of around 5 there are always nasty comments saying something along the lines of this, "With a mean score of 4.41, why don't you just stop watching anime? You clearly don't like it xD. Try some movies or tv shows." Do people not understand that every individual has a different scale when it comes to anime? For me, I believe that the people with a mean score around 5 are more correct than the majority of us because in a 1-10 scale 5 should indicate a average anime. Do you also do it? I don't care what scores you give to anime, it's when you make dumb or ignorant comments that I have to call you out on your bs. |
Please learn about cel animation and its technical process. Learn how special effects and backlighting were done without computers. |
Timz0r said: Oh, is that so? Looks like people still haven't been bugging me with my 'low' MEAN score as of now, but thanks for the heads up! I guess it's time for me being really worried! You have a pretty legit mean score 4.96 but come on, Aho Girl 2? and Infer Cop 1? at least Pingu was a 10 |
|
EvilUnicorn said: Who cares what other people mean score is, just watch anime and have a fun that is all that matters. Pretty much this. People just wanna look for a reason to fight around here. |
 "I am not sure that I exist, actually. I am all the writers that I have read, all the people that I have met, all the women that I have loved; all the cities I have visited." ― Jorge Luis Borges [url=]Goodreads[/url] | [url=]Letterboxd[/url] |
| Yeah, I've seen that before and I dislike that immensely. Fuck 'em. Aastra343 said: Welcome to the forums! You're the millionth user to ask this question, click here for your prize. how dare you bring a stale meme into this civilized conversation, good sir |
 |
Manaban said: Aastra343 said: Welcome to the forums! You're the millionth user to ask this question, click here for your prize. how dare you bring a stale meme into this civilized conversation, good sir Fuck, I should've linked to some malware if people were actually gonna click on it. Stale memes for stale topics I say. Long live the stale dead memes. |
 |
| I think it's more of a case of people wondering why do other's even bother watching a medium if their general consensus based on their score is that they don't like a majority of what they're watching. I mean yea everyone has different rating systems, but 4 and below are generally considered bad by most standards and those mean scores are the ones that I see mostly get "criticized" naens said: I think the mean score shouldn't be visible / shown. It's a completely useless piece of information. how else can one inadvertently flex their mega elitism? |
 'On-Hold' is another way for a completionist to say 'Dropped' |
Cabron said: Futz_ said: Why do you type "we"?This has been bugging me recently, when I come across profiles who have a mean score of around 5 there are always nasty comments saying something along the lines of this, "With a mean score of 4.41, why don't you just stop watching anime? You clearly don't like it xD. Try some movies or tv shows." Do people not understand that every individual has a different scale when it comes to anime? For me, I believe that the people with a mean score around 5 are more correct than the majority of us because in a 1-10 scale 5 should indicate a average anime. Do you also do it? I don't care what scores you give to anime, it's when you make dumb or ignorant comments that I have to call you out on your bs. first and foremost, no I definitely do not criticize people based on their scoring system. I sometimes will defend them by asking the person who left the comment why they think that way (that's the reason for the post) I wrote "we" because I am addressing the entire community because in my eyes this is occurs quite frequently. However, i'd love to know what you would replace it with. Can you explain why my comment was BS? |
|
Aastra343 said: Fuck, I should've linked to some malware if people were actually gonna click on it. Stale memes for stale topics I say. Long live the stale dead memes. joke's on you, my computer's probably already infested with malware |
|
| A lot of people have a hard time looking at things from the perspectives of others. When someone who considers a 6/10 to be the right rating to give any anime from Sword Art Online to Mars of Destruction and they see someone whose average is 4.5 they see it as being someone considering more than half of the anime they've seen to be worse than anything the observer has ever come across, not realizing just how differently people use the rating scale. Also, people are just naturally hostile to people whose values strongly conflict with their own. |
  |
| Some people use the "I am picky with what I watch that's why my mean is over 7.5" argument as in rating something a 5/10 or lower is an absolute statement of something being mediocre or bad with no room for nuance. When I'd argue my 5/10 is way better than what constitutes a factual average product in the industry. But you can still opt to use the more useful full scale, and rate under 5 stuff you didn't like. Some of which you find worse than others for a variety of reasons, of course. |
 |
| because for some reason humans hate to see other humans live with a different phylosophy than their own, so they feel the need to critisize the guy and try to convince him even though it never leads to anything. it extends to this kind of stupidity and here we are. |
| This has literally never happened to me in the 7 years I've been on MAL despite my mean score always hovering around 5. Inb4 random people start flooding my profile comments with "gtfo elitist" |
I'm also filled with pure-hearted ulterior motives. |
Futz_ said: This has been bugging me recently, when I come across profiles who have a mean score of around 5 there are always nasty comments saying something along the lines of this, "With a mean score of 4.41, why don't you just stop watching anime? You clearly don't like it xD. Try some movies or tv shows." Do people not understand that every individual has a different scale when it comes to anime? For me, I believe that the people with a mean score around 5 are more correct than the majority of us because in a 1-10 scale 5 should indicate a average anime. I won't read any more posts other than yours OP, as this thread has been up for so many times and it's getting slightly tiring. So I go over your post with my same arguments in that regard and be over it (unless you respond to it in any sort) 1. If you have a bunch of anime seen and your mean average strays too far off of the average scale, you're an odd ball in my eyes. (7.5 and higher tells me your standards are pretty low (when higher, maybe not even existant). 3.5 and lower and you're most likely way too edgy to be taken serious.) 2. If you rate like a normal person, your rating graph should probably look somewhat like having the least scores for 1,2,3,9,10 , occasionally 4,(7),8 and most scores at 5,6,(7) 3. Take into account that a person who enjoys the medium would stick to shows/genres he/she likes. So the actual average score of the person at MAL should be somewhere above the actual average of MAL's rating scale. |
Kurgo said: To be fair, this is the opposite perspective of the fad that OP @Futz_ points out, which I can vouch for occasionally seeing in threads here on AD.My oh my, a fresh new perspective on a hitherto untouched subject. |
| Avatar character is Gabriel from Gabriel DropOut. |
| I do enjoy everything scored higher than 2-3. My mean score is 5.53 and I'm ok with that. Probably could be higher if I didn't rate some dropped titles and bad short movies. Recently some guy asked me why I keep watching One piece (880+ episodes) while I rated it only a 4. Well, because despite having such a low score and actually being a bad show I still find something that keeps my interest. After all, there are 4 more scores below 5, why do you think people shouldn't enjoy something they gave 4 or 5? So, I don't see any problems in low mean scores. Imo having 8+ is much more cancerous thing |
Nemo_NiemandJun 23, 2019 2:59 PM
 |
Futz_ said: For me, I believe that the people with a mean score around 5 are more correct than the majority of us because in a 1-10 scale 5 should indicate a average anime. This assumes all the anime a person has watched will be an even distribution of good and bad anime. That will only be true for people that have watched a ton of anime. Vast majority of people, especially those who are new, will watch stuff that's well known and more likely to be enjoyable to them. That said, I don't think anyone has a better or worse way of doing it. Beauty of the system is everyone can do it how they like and the average scores are a conglomeration of all those styles. I'll joke about people having bad taste because it's different to mine, but only time I critcize people's scores seriously is when I think they are giving protest scores because they think something is overrated. Of course, a lot of people just score based on enjoyment but honestly, it's not that many. I made a thread recently with a poll and it's less than 20% of people who score based on enjoyment alone. So I'm always suspicious when I see a really popular, highly-scored aniem on someone's list and they've given it a 1. These shows must have done something right by any kind of objective valuation. So I think most of the time the line "oh I just score by enjoyment" is an excuse and those 1/10s are anger/protest scores. |
| “In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” -Friedrich Nietzsche Aggregate scoring is bad for the anime fandom |
| I am the complete opposite. I criticize people for having really high mean scores. If your mean score is over a 7 you are not using the 1-10 scale right. |
| Cause they are insecure about the fact that these folks think more critically before rating an Anime compared to them. We should criticize people who have way too high of mean scores since they are the reason a lot of shit Anime are ranked high on the charts. |
  Ascended Taste I only came back to this site for the forum sets and to promote my RYM list... Anilist ftw still :dab: |
| And I pretend not to know who you are talking about. If 4.41 is low then 6.59 is considered a high mean score because of 1-10 rating system |
Futz_ said: This has been bugging me recently, when I come across profiles who have a mean score of around 5 there are always nasty comments saying something along the lines of this, "With a mean score of 4.41, why don't you just stop watching anime? You clearly don't like it xD. Try some movies or tv shows." Do people not understand that every individual has a different scale when it comes to anime? For me, I believe that the people with a mean score around 5 are more correct than the majority of us because in a 1-10 scale 5 should indicate a average anime. Because it is an empatic human atitude to advise others to stop activities which bring harm or unpleasantness to oneself. It is simply dumb to engage in a hobby where you will spend most of the time watching things you dislike. Which is why i stopped playing League of Legends in favor of other games. |
| I think a lot of people do it because they don't understand why a person would watch so many anime they consider below average. Which i kind of get to be honest. But then, people can get enjoyment out of terrible games and movies, so why not the same with anime? If they enjoy bad anime than that's their prerogative. I'd rather avoid the bad shows when i can and watch the genuinely good stuff though. |
FancyjasperJun 23, 2019 3:46 PM
| I don't know but I can't care less..what other people watch and do on their own profile shouldn't be anyone's buisness. I created this account to list my anime and not to fight with people over some stupid scores |
 |
| I like this topic: So the reason is pretty obvious, if your mean score is low, that means that you are a pretentious prick, who is hard to please and should get off his high horse. I am one of those pretentious pricks and the reason for that is because I aim to fully utilise the 1-10 scale, that's it. To me every season 45% of the anime are good and 45% are bad, however the last 10% are the 7, 8 and 9/10 series of that particular season. |
 |
| I dont really care for mean scores, rate anime how you like or what you think it deserves. |
| I mean if you have mean score of 3 to 4, it means majority of your anime is rated 5 and below. Its a legit question to ask, no matter how you twist it by saying different rating scale, because when I check these folks profile they may have 1 or two series with a score of 7/10, so its definitely not that. So yes, it is a valid question. Definitely not someone you would like to be talking to when it comes to anime. |
| Because it’s fucking RETARDED to watch something you don’t seem to enjoy just for the sake of shitting on it. If you’re giving any and all anime you watch 4 or lower...clearly anime is NOT for you! You don’t like it...so why watch it? To Hate watch? To be a cynical asshole? Because that’s how these people come across. |
| if i see a low mean score like that i check if they have seen thousands of anime already and if they do Strugeons Law "90% of everything is trash" applies to their mindset and experience i guess but if i see a low mean score with just below 100 anime watched on their list then ye they are clearly not enjoying anime much |
| Some people just want to watch things other than what they like. To give opinions or roast someone with a bad taste ;( But, it's annoying if they keep doing that and resulting a low mean score in their list. I mean, why bother go so far for something you don't even care? Unless, they were having expectations that they will like it. It's unreasonable to give a low score.  |
 |
| People have a weird obsession with how others rate things. I pretty much use thre full scale when I rate things and my mean is still above a 5 at 6.79 currently. This could be a high or low mean depending on who you ask. Some people might think it's because I'm not properly using the scale as intended. I see it as me being fairly decent at picking anime to watch. |
| its also the human nature of tribalism "us vs them" mentality and "if you are not with us then you are against us" mentality |
| I have a fairly low score and the reason I keep watching is because while most anime that gets popular sucks ass, (SAO, Zombieland Saga, Bunny Girl, Overlord, etc.) there are many other shows that I love to death and make it worth it to sift through and find quality. |
 |
Short_Circut said: I think it's more of a case of people wondering why do other's even bother watching a medium if their general consensus based on their score is that they don't like a majority of what they're watching. I mean yea everyone has different rating systems, but 4 and below are generally considered bad by most standards and those mean scores are the ones that I see mostly get "criticized" naens said: I think the mean score shouldn't be visible / shown. It's a completely useless piece of information. how else can one inadvertently flex their mega elitism? This 100%. Couldn't have said it better myself. |
 |
Futz_ said: The difference in scales makes the rating system useless. I recently to increase granularity adjusted my scale and made Lain go from 9 to 10; I might encounter something better than Lain later down the line but for now this gives me more granularity; I had too much stuff at 8 where I felt one was clearly better than the other.This has been bugging me recently, when I come across profiles who have a mean score of around 5 there are always nasty comments saying something along the lines of this, "With a mean score of 4.41, why don't you just stop watching anime? You clearly don't like it xD. Try some movies or tv shows." Do people not understand that every individual has a different scale when it comes to anime? For me, I believe that the people with a mean score around 5 are more correct than the majority of us because in a 1-10 scale 5 should indicate a average anime. I feel a better system would just be to order things from most to least favored. |
 It is obvious that "obscenity" is not a term capable of exact legal definition; in the practice of the courts, it means "anything that shocks the magistrate". — Bertrand Russell |
| A low mean score in any case doesn't necessarily imply the user does not on average enjoy the anime he/she watches... not everyone rates by enjoyment alone but rather want to be more critical, I don't know why's that so hard to understand... |
More topics from this board
» Is it weird to be attracted to anime characters under the age of 18?self-suff-des - 34 minutes ago |
13 |
by betaweeb
»»
20 seconds ago |
|
» Is it over for newcomer boomers?LenRea - 8 hours ago |
20 |
by tmoverbeck
»»
25 seconds ago |
|
» Anime Misandry ( 1 2 3 )ColourWheel - Apr 21 |
123 |
by Weeaboo_Bomber
»»
4 minutes ago |
|
Poll: » How much do you consume from the otaku world?castle2001 - Apr 22 |
34 |
by MasterTasuke
»»
8 minutes ago |
|
» How is anime doing in the UK these days?VeryRedBags - 2 hours ago |
3 |
by VeryRedBags
»»
15 minutes ago |