| I've seen some profiles of people who have watched hundreds to thousands of anime while giving a mean score of less than 4. Why do people do this? Is it to be edgy, or something else? |
| I think a mean score below a 4 is ridiculous. But at the same time, people rate differently. At the end of the day they're just a number it shouldn't be something that serious. But yea there are some users out there with meme reviews and people feed into that bs |
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| This thread has been made a billion times before, but sure, I'll entertain the question. It's not that they're edgy, it's probably because they want more range in the higher section of their scale. Their rating representing average might not be '5' even if the site says it's that way. Either that or they are being edgy, but those people are far and few between. They'll either grow up and learn that being elitist isn't cool, or they'll stay in their little bubble; you can always just ignore the latter. It's not like these people affect your life. |
| OP, we rate differently, we don't have the same taste and some people never drop anime. |
| All weebs creatures of the galaxy, hear this message. Those of you who listen will not be struck by western animation. You will no longer know hunger, nor pain. Your Anime have come to lead you now. Our strength shall serve as a luminous sun toward which all intelligence may blossom. And the impervious shelter beneath which you will prosper. However, for those who refuse our offer and cling to their western animation ways… For you, there will be great wrath. |
| Lol I just find it a bit weird. If they watched hundreds of anime, I would have expected a normal distribution in the scores around a mean, even if the mean was low. However one guy has their score distribution in a pyramid shape (with a score of 1 being the most common in their anime list). |
| The more you progress towards the 4 digital number of animes you completed the more your score will drop because if u complete every show u will start to complete more and more anime that you dont really enjoy. I really enjoyed the first 30 anime but after that it only goes downhill for me.The ratio for liked/disliked anime will even drop further in favorite of the latter the more you watch because most anime aren't really good. |
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Nurguburu said: OP, we rate differently, we don't have the same taste and some people never drop anime. I agree, but there are people with (very) high expectations/standards as well. |
| If I watch a show that is barely enjoyable, completely forgetting about it 2 minutes after finishing it, how am I supposed to rate it? Does this mean that I hate anime and I should stop watching them? I don't think so. |
| I used to think like that myself when I was new to the medium but as time passed the magic of discovering a new medium started to fade, stuff that I used to like started to feel uninspired and heartless. Mainsteam appeal turned out to be more important than telling a genuinely interesting story, resulting in a pretty looking shell of nothing. I still love the medium for it's endless potential but I've come to terms with the majority of anime not being any good. Sturgeon's law is more apparent than ever. |
| I generally filter what I watch based on what other people think is good by concsensus. Thus my mean score comes out to be just under 7. That seems about right to me. If I randomly picked anime to watch it would come out around 5. |
| Bleach is best consumed with your ears open and your eyes closed. |
| the numbers mean different things to different people... so the exact number of the mean score doesnt matter that much.. you should see it more like the barrier that separates anime into "above average" and "below average" some people also watch a ton of random shorts and music videos and rate them low, so the mean is kinda artificially lowered |
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| Yeah if your average is 4 then why bother, like do you even like animu??? |
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| Mine is just above the 5.00 mark and has dipped below into the 4s, the only reason for it being that low is because I watch a lot of the music videos that have entries on MAL (everything up to 2010). A lot of them are shit, and hence I give them a low rating. My average rating for TV shows is around 7.00ish |
| Hmm below 4 does sound quite low, makes you wonder if one even enjoys the medium anymore... However there's also the case, that the more shows you watch, the more critical you become. I used to give 10s left and right to almost every anime ive enjoyed, but once ive seen a certain number of shows, i realised that amongst those hundreds of 10s there are shows that I've enjoyed much more than others. I revisited my scores and ever since I try my best to follow the MAL description of scores like 5=average, 10= masterpiece and so on. |
   We're all golden Sunfl  werson the inside :> |
| I dont drop anime but I also dont watch absolutely everything. I think there is a lot more subpar anime than good so if you watch outside your comfort zone as well as pretty much everything I think the average would be lower. I imagine I seem like I am generous with my ratings but I do my best to avoid anime I dont think I will like. I also tend to see the good in shows more than the bad so that may have some effect on my ratings as well. We all do it differently so I wouldnt worry about it. For me a bad or meh anime generally ends up around 5-6 which seems high but there is a ton of anime that I know is way worse and over time I have learned to weed most of it out before I get to the watching stage. |
| They want to feel special, that is the reason It's quite funny, they barely or never give a 10, they give lots of 1 Their favourite anime are always some famous who show with score below 7 I think they're just being a character, you know? I'm not able to understand how someone could watch 200 anime or so that they hated, sometimes even more. I can understand if you finished some anime that you hate to the point of giving a 1, but some people have 200, 300 shows rated with 1. |
PhosphophyllitaNov 29, 2020 3:19 AM
| If you're a fanboy, please don't waste my time. Watch more movies, please. Kafka, Fu Xuan, Jingliu, Topaz and Huohuo. |
| A mean rating of 4 does not mean that the user's opinion on every anime ever is a 4. It just means they happen to have seen a lot of sub-par or bad anime. If you, right now, went out of your way to watch a hundred anime unquestionably awful, and rated them appropriately, then your average would drop. Does this mean you like your favorite anime less? Does this make the 9s and 10s you've given less valid? Obviously not. If anything, a user with a high average rating is more of a concern, since they either have incredible luck with what they choose to watch or, more likely, very low standards. |
| Well I for one already loved Lain. |
| if i never realized how stupid it is to never drop anime, mine would be below 4 as well |
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| Why do peolpe with hundreds watched anime have lower scores more often? It's easy - they have more things to compare and more reasons to differentiate them. You probably miss the point of ratings. 10-score rating system supposes that people are able to separate all shows they watched in ten different categories. If I gave a show a 1, 2 or 3 and finished it without dropping, that means I still enjoyed it. If you are unable to use all 10 scores and don't rate things below 5-6 then it's your fault, not their. |
Nemo_NiemandNov 29, 2020 4:28 AM
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| my mean score isnt that low but I can get why they do it after watching hundreds of animes, u realize how repetitive everything is and its more difficult to find a show u genuinely enjoy, majority of my 10s are from 2017 and before, its not that they don't like anime anymore, its just harder imo but ye, some of those ppl r just trying to be edgy |
 𝐼 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽𝓉, 𝑀𝒶𝓎𝒷𝑒 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒞𝑜𝓊𝓁𝒹 𝐿𝑜𝓋𝑒 𝑀𝑒 𝐿𝒾𝓀𝑒 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒰𝓈𝑒𝒹 𝒯𝑜, 𝐸𝓋𝑒𝓃 𝒯𝒽𝑜𝓊𝑔𝒽 𝐼'𝓂 𝒟𝒾𝒻𝒻𝑒𝓇𝑒𝓃𝓉. 𝐵𝓊𝓉 𝒴𝑜𝓊 𝒞𝒽𝒶𝓃𝑔𝑒𝒹 𝒯𝑜𝑜, 𝒮𝑜, 𝐻𝑒𝓇𝑒'𝓈 𝒯𝑜 𝒯𝒽𝑒 𝒩𝑒𝓌 𝒰𝓈. |
| if the mean score is less than 4, there are 3 possibility 1) They are fakers or haters (less score to every anime whether watched or not, except for there favorites in hopes of increasing rating or trying to look more experienced or something like that) 2) They genuinely dislike or losing interest in anime medium but has a persistent personality or most of the anime the watched are dropped anime ( Its better for them if they stop watching anime and go and use their time in something else) 3) Incorrect rating (to vent out its not upto high expectation ) or some use of some weird self made scale of rating please note - second option is a really unlikely scenario. U might have to find people with persistent personality (i dont think many are like that). Most people don't actually know the calculation of mean score when they are faking. HAVING BORED BY ANIME OVER YEARS TO BE THE REASON FOR A MEAN SCORE LOWER THAN 4 IS ACTUALLY A EXTRIMELY UNLIKELY SCENARIO eg - A person has watched 50 anime and has a mean score of 3. He is into anime ( because why else would he watch 50 anime). So atleast there should be 1 show which is he consider 10/10. So according to mean score calculation rest 49 anime he can only give upto 2.8 for each at an average. This guy can only reduce his rating to 1 for the other anime to give some of the better liked anime more than 3 rating. I do know with no of anime increased the no of rating he can give also increases. But still why would he increare the no of anime if returns are so low. basically the gist of it is a person with less than 3 mean rating would only like a max of 3-4 anime out of 50 anime watched if provided other series are rated extremely low like 1. Would a person like that continue to watch 50 more anime if the results are same or lower in the next 50 anime also ? ( I mean to maintain 3 rating from increasing in 100 watched anime.) Its a extremely unlikely scenario, I don't know how such people could bear to continuing watching anime ( 4-5 gems and 90-95 worst than trash series. Do such people exist?) |
AdampkNov 29, 2020 5:51 AM
  Click for a anime mashup! Still not gone bandwagon u, keep crying. Here u are welcome to CRINGE at my EXISTENCE |
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chiraxxz said: Out of the 28 comments in this thread so far, only 9 people (other than you) have an average rating higher than 7. So I guess most people don't like most anime.I believe that if a person has an average rating less than 7 then they don't like many animes either because they have watched too many or they just like a few. In any case, if your average rating is less than 7 then that means you only like a few animes so there is no point in watching a ton of them, just stick to the mainstream ones. |
| Gintoki and Sugita's birthdays are 1 day apart. |
| A low average score doesn't always correspond to the watch time. For example, only 10% of my watch time comes from anime I rated below 5. |
| My average rating is dropping as I watch more anime. This isn't because I'm liking the medium less, it's just that my standards have improved. I think a lot of anime fans go through the stage of loving everything initially, then realising a lot of stuff they liked isn't that good in comparison and they drop the scores. |
 my life was made with mematic. |
| It's a defense mechanism. They're long past feeling any sense of enjoyment from watching anime so they put the blame on the anime by rating them low instead of taking a look at themselves. |
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| tbh I had no intentions other than removing my lower scores because they were inaccurate af and also kinda use more scores for "good" anime. idk if it triggers other people I can remove them or make it like AniList. Ah why people care so much about random numbers? |
mhkrNov 29, 2020 5:30 AM
| I don't know why it is so difficult to understand, but not everyone rates according to enjoyment. Just because I gave a certain show a 3 or a 4 doesn't mean I didn't enjoy it. |
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| I think it mostly has to do with tough rating systems they decided to establish when I look at my average rating I know it feels too hight but I'm not worrying since I haven't watched that many bad shows yet and one day after I finished watching all the better ones that average score of mine will start dropping for sure. |
| i think below 4 is just ridiculous but i myself have a mean score of like 6.2 and thats because: the more anime you watch the more anime is shit and the more anime gets less special for you i still think rating shows a 1 just because you didnt like it is not a good score system you have to loo at all the different elements... va? animation? story? how well is it adapted? difficulty to watch? boring in the beginning but good at the end? there are too many variables and rating 180 shows of the 400 you've seen is just stupid |
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chiraxxz said: You're making some big assumptions in your statements:Amoh25 said: Yes, my point exactly. If someone doesn't like most animes, then what's the point in watching? Just watch the stuff that you think you would like.Out of the 28 comments in this thread so far, only 9 people (other than you) have an average rating higher than 7. So I guess most people don't like most anime. 1. A low score doesn't always mean that a person doesn't enjoy said anime. They just might not have liked certain aspects of it. For example: I rated The God of Highschool a 4 because it's story was lackluster and really rushed, but I really enjoyed the animation and that's why I was able to finish it. My rating of 4 doesn't mean that I didn't enjoy it at all. 2. You can't always tell if you'll enjoy an anime just from the synopsis and the genres. Sometimes, you have to check out a few episodes in order to know if it's for you or not. And if you don't like those episodes, you end up dropping it and (a lot of) people also rate the anime they drop, which also contributes to the average rating. 3. A rating of 6 doesn't mean that you don't enjoy the anime. It just means that you like it but would want it to improve. Setting 7 as the standard for liking an anime isn't right, since different people rate in terms of different scales. 4. People's standards improve as they continue to watch anime. If you like something right now, that doesn't necessarily mean that you'll like it a few years from now. 5. You need to watch both good and bad in order to tell one from the other. It's hard to explain this one since you haven't watched that many of both sides right now. |
| Gintoki and Sugita's birthdays are 1 day apart. |
| People have their own standards, I guess? My mean score always stays around 6.5, which is fairly generous in my opinion. But some people have a rating system that is vastly different from mine. |
| why does everyone care about this :/ |
| Because people have divergent criteria and rate differently. You may find people that may give a 7 to an anime they found bad and people that give 5 to an anime that they enjoyed (me for example). In the end, it's purely arbitrary and you should not think too much of it. |
| "No one hates anime more than the anime community, which is composed of some of the most spoiled, immature, pessimist and ungrateful people on Earth." -Anonymous anime watcher |
| I don't know, they like to suffer I guess. I drop 95% of the shows that I don't like, I like to suffer a bit from time to time. Nefelupitou said: Imo, people give too many 10's... there is no perfect shows, so 10 should exist. The only 10 should be your favorite one.They want to feel special, that is the reason It's quite funny, they barely or never give a 10, they give lots of 1 |
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| I made it a rule of mine to not give any shows a 1 or 2 score but to also not touch things that are rated less than a 5 or 6 on MAL. |
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| would my mean score be considered low? lmao, I'm never rating another show in my life my avg. is at it's peak |
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