| I don’t know how much this doesn’t get asked around here, but I’ve been seeing mainly scores of anime get spammed with 8’s, 9’s and sometimes 10’s. I get anime is subjective, but do you think people are baiting other users by spamming scores like this to anime that’s not that great in the first place? |
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| As you said, anime is subjective and we shouldn't judge each other's tastes so much. This being said, when I read the title the Clannad series immediately came to my mind. How did After Story get such a high score, it's still a mystery for me. Well, everyone has their own opinion... Edit: Someone said it before me lol: Psajdak said: Well, Clannad series is garbage that is all about bullying, and, IMO, it deserves 1/10. If you are curious about what I mean, search for my old posts about Yohei Sunohara, and how much he suffered at the hand of that garbage Tomoya, and other sluts. I gave it a 5 and I was being generous. |
| If you read Eleceed you're automatically my friend. |
| Yeah but I have accepted that most mal scores are different from what I rate and I can't do anything about it. Scores on more obscure shows are closer to what I rate so I trust those more. |
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| I know that taste is subjective™ but Overlord is objectively terrible and does not deserve an 8/10 rating |
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| Even if a shows bad people will still give it above 5/10 https://www.animemaru.com/myanimelist-scores-dramatically-decrease-as-users-realize-they-can-give-scores-lower-than-5/ |
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| Yeah of course but 5 seconds later I realise score don't matter Especially not on MAL |
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| Yup, but then I realize that they are mostly seasonals. The moment they finish airing their rating drops. 6 months later, no one remebers that they ever existed. |
| Most of the time, as well as thinking some scores should be higher. |
| Who are you and why do you show your hostility towards a complete stranger whom you've not once spoken with before. Are you seriously asking to get blocked? Well, if that's what your intent is; to tempt me into throwing hands with someone as lowly and insignificant as you, then i may grant your wish provided you articulate yourself a bit better when trying to spite a person of my wavelength. |
 Congrats on opening the 32033439483853989400942th thread that as this stupid question... |
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kronopy said:  Congrats on opening the 32033439483853989400942th thread that as this stupid question... congrats on being the billionth MAL member to make that complaint |
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| Just by looking without watching? No, but I do agree with the post above that the scoring system here on MAL is inflated. After watching a show, hell yeah. |
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| no. I've seen plenty of times where I rated a show way, WAY lower than its average MAL score. But I've never felt like the average score "should be lower". The average score reflects how much peoples liked a show in average. So as long as the score is not manipulated by bots, brigade voting or multiple accounts, it's exactly where it should be. |
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| some anime like Demon slayer for me is bad but i can see why people like it so it deserve 8. ..so i dont think that anime above 8.5 do not deserve their rating . |
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| The scores I give to anime, are based on my values only. I don't care what anyone else thinks of my scores/anime, even if those scores alter the overall community scoring. The scoring used, is for my own referencing, because my memory is s**t, and I probably forgot 90% of any anime I watched 10 years ago... the scoring help me to remember. |
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| I think that all the battle shonen are very overrated, sure you rate what you enjoy, but objectively speaking, 90% of them aren't exactly worthy of the score they have *caugh* demon slayer one piece *caugh* |
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| I see anime with a 7 rating that need to be lower |
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| At first I was going to reply an unoriginal sarcastic comment, but then I remembered that people actually raided MAL by giving free loads of 10 to a shitty ecchi anime just to trigger an external website which obviously couldn't care less about what's going on here on MAL. So my answer would actually be yes. There are hidden baits in those scores. |
| Individuals holding similarly high opinions of a show they like is not spamming, lol. What an odd turn of phrase. |
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| people like what they like. your standards of a "10" anime is just different than others. many people, like myself, aren't very critical of the shows they watch. if it entertains, it's likely going to get a pretty high score from me. maybe op, instead of framing people enjoying shows more than you as "baiting", you should just ignore the mal scores. |
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| The ignore feature comes handy for threads like these. |
albertbrown said: Bait? This is asked like once every week in a form or another.I don’t know how much this doesn’t get asked around here, but I’ve been seeing mainly scores of anime get spammed with 8’s, 9’s and sometimes 10’s. I get anime is subjective, but do you think people are baiting other users by spamming scores like this to anime that’s not that great in the first place? >Subjective taste: you might think it's not that great but they do.>Positive mentality: "I finished it and it was entertaining", "(I'll pretend that with high scores) I am showing respect to the work the creators put in the anime". >Different grading scale: a 7 is a low rating, 8 not that bad, 9 good and 10 great. >External factors: get influenced by the community/hype/memes/other factors that increase their perceived quality of the show. >Biased: yes a randomly generated list should show a bell curve distribution of ratings but we don't choose what anime to watch randomly (at least the overwhelming majority don't), most people choose anime that are popular or have some appeal to them making it more likely to rate highly. >Many other reasons. |
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| Yes. Like Seven Deadly Sins is still above 8 but I think it would better fit somewhere in the mid 7. And FMA:B should not be the number 1 anime. I do understand why it is that popular but I find it not that good. I have started it but I haven't got past episode 10 because of boredom. |
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| Is there anything that is systematically over/under-rated by the community as a whole? Looking at any given series I'd say no, provided the sample size is large enough. At the end of the day its an average, so ignoring trolls/bots should be representative. Looking at subsets and groups of animes I would say yes - newer anime benefits from recency bias; similarly older anime is not rated as highly as it should be as the visuals are compared to modern standards. I have no statistical evidence for that its just an empirical observation. Anyway, the bottom line is a MAL 8 doesnt say much because literally everything is rated in a range around 7.5-8.5. I did a regression of MAL scores vs my own the results were MAL = 7.1 + Myscore*0.15 In other words my mapping table looks like My = MAL 1 7.25 2 7.40 3 7.55 4 7.70 5 7.85 6 8.00 7 8.15 8 8.30 9 8.45 10 8.60 The takeaway for me is groupthink does actually work on the whole (albeit with significant variation within the buckets) as the correlation between what I think is good and what everyone else thinks is good is pretty strong. I use this as a rough guide to filter what I watch - basically anything >8.3 will for sure get a look, and anything >8 that piques my interest or covers a specific genre I like will also get picked. I also look at individuals with a high affinity to me and will add their 8/9/10s to my plan to watch list. To answer the original post - plenty of anime rated 8 or 9 on MAL dont deserve it imo, but of course thats my opinion. To refine the original question I filtered anime rated >8.5 and looked at the largest difference to my score and the one that stood out was Gintama, which as a franchise I rated as 6.4 overall. Universally praised and acclaimed but for me, I didnt like the mish mash of serious and comedy, and thought the comedy was poor (too Japanese for me, and too adolescent for my tastes). Each to his own. |
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| Bleach is best consumed with your ears open and your eyes closed. |
| No, I'm not that full of myself. The rating is meant to be average of all. If most people love it than it deserves the spot. Who are you to say a rating shouldn't be this high/low. There are many shows with average above 8 that I think are total garbage (shitgatsu comes to mind) but whatever, let people love it. the only 'problem' might be the dishonest ratings, spamming shows with 1s just because you dislike the fanbase or because the anime is rated higher than your favourite |
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| Is this bait thread? I usually just went "oh, that's quite a high score, so this anime is what majority of MAL users like", and then move on. |
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| Code Geass holy SHIT. Trash. Get it off. |
epidemia78 said: A billionth means that 1 complaint/3203343948353.989400942 post of these kind of threads which is genuinely low.kronopy said: Congrats on opening the 32033439483853989400942th thread that as this stupid question... congrats on being the billionth MAL member to make that complaint You should be angry if that reaches septillion (in short scale case) range as billionth is small in compare to that whereas if you want it to be long scale then still it needs to touch quadrillion. ChrollosWaifu said: But if it's 'HOLY shit' then it is religious for people and anything related to holy is holy even it's the shit of holy.Code Geass holy SHIT. Trash. Get it off. Nefelupitou said: You got biological really quick!I simply don't care anymore. "After the Rain" has 7,5 meanwhile "Demon Slayer" has 8,8. My opinion? You gotta enjoy your life for now, there'll be a day when you will start losing hair and you'll never be happy again Clubby said: You know *Caugh* is a dangerous thing now-a-days than maybe ever.I think that all the battle shonen are very overrated, sure you rate what you enjoy, but objectively speaking, 90% of them aren't exactly worthy of the score they have *caugh* demon slayer one piece *caugh* |
puneetsinghApr 20, 2020 3:14 AM
| Should I troll in the troll bait threads? It is kinda idiotic to be logical in the troll bait threads. Well, it will depend on my mood. |
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