Users who haven't finished an anime should be restricted on rating it

Personally, I think that a bad start that forces people to stop watching is a good enough reason for an anime to get a worse score. By counting everyone who gave the anime a fair chance, we get a better representation of the average viewer than if we exclude everyone who was so disappointed that they had to drop it.

Saying that those who dropped an anime would have enjoyed it if they had watched the second half isn't really based on anything. There are always enough people who finish something and still give a bad score.
I also drop some anime after episode 7 or 8 (out of 12), should my opinion not count either in these cases?


Currently the Weighted Score counts everyone who watched at least 1/5 of the anime (3 episodes for a 12 episode anime)

@Vaturna Saying that they might enjoy it is based on my personal experience. I have watched some animes that I really wanted to drop but I still watched them through and eventually found them quite enjoyable(for example Guilty Crown, Darling in the FranXX to name a few). That is my personal experience though but I believe that people "shouldn't judge a book by its cover" and give everything a fair chance. Now, there are exceptions of course, is something is not for your taste, sure, drop it and give it a bad score, people have different tastes, but most animes are worth giving a fair chance.

I didn't know about the 1/5 rule so thanks for that info. It is better than nothing I suppose.

It might be nice to have the option to see the scores from people who finished at least X amount of episodes. Like a slider you could move that shows you the average score of people who have seen that many episodes.

It'll never happen, but it'd be cool to see.

This is dumb af. Imagine someone who hate one piece have to watch all the shit show till it finished. The problems is that not everyone want to watch thousands of eps just to give it a 1/10.

@Scavendgarr Obviously for a show as long as One Piece(over 1000 episodes) it would be ridiculous. I was mostly referring to 12 or 24 episode animes. I didn't clearly specify that initially so that is my mistake.

I might feel slightly swayed if writing a review required a person to watch all the way through, but a rating is different. if you are a few episodes into an anime and it is truly the worst thing you have ever seen then showing your opinion of that without forcing yourself to waste more of your time finishing the show is completely valid.


I'd be curious to see this put into practice.

@Noelle43
Hard to say if it isn't already because I don't think the algorithm they use to calculate scores is publicly available info.

This is dumb af. Imagine someone who hate one piece have to watch all the shit show till it finished. The problems is that not everyone want to watch thousands of eps just to give it a 1/10.

@Scavendgarr Who tf would watch all of one piece just to give it a 1?

Funny how I too have dropped Angel Beats years ago only seeing 2 episodes and calling it trash. My tastes have differed now but I still refuse to go back and watch it after all these years. I think the main issue was that at the time it was so popular that everyone at my school were talking about it and singing its praise. I went in with high expectations and was met at the door with disappointment and I thought the premise was stupid.

Their ratings do matter and if an anime failed to catch the viewers attention after a few episodes, then wouldn't that mean the anime failed? See, its just one persons review and normally that wouldn't put a dent in the rating if most people enjoyed it, but if a lot of people are dropping an anime after only 3 or so episodes, then imo there is an issue. How many people do you think saw a show they thought the first half was utter trash but stuck it through and found gold at the at the last half and gave it a 9? That would also be a terrible rating imo, and worse then the one that dropped an anime, because they don't consider that the first half wasn't good and they should've take into account the show as a whole and give an average rating.

At the end of the day, if a show was truly good I feel like the the user ratings would speak for itself anyways. I believe what also doesn't help is that there is no .5 rating and you either have to round up or down whether you like it or not, an 8 and 7 are very far apart. Ratings are dumb anyways and you should just like what you want and not let reviews get you down to much. If anything go support your favorite anime by giving it a rating and write a honest review about it if you aren't happy with the rating it has.

Not sure I would agree to have something like this implemented. For instance individuals who decide to drop an anime because they don't like it, would obviously give it a low score, but would not be able to do so if this were a feature. Which I feel they should be able to. :/

I could be wrong but its already like this. People can simply rate, but doesn't mean MAL counts it or adds it into the calculations.
I'm not for conspiracy theory's but I think I'm right about this one.
But also Me personally; I don't score until I finish a anime. Should everyone do what I do? i don't think so. But does it make sense? sure.

@Rasco I'm the same as you when it comes to scoring. I don't do it until I finish it, that means that if I ever were to drop any anime, I would leave it unrated simply because I believe that I cannot rate something as a whole if I hadn't experienced it as a whole.

This would just inflate the rating of every anime. Most people only finish shows they like. And it's logical that these people will give the anime a good score. Season 2 of Shield Hero had 13 episodes. If half of those suck than it doesn't deserve a 7/10 or anything higher anyway. I think that most scores are already super inflated. An ok show should be 5/10, but in my opinion most shows that are just ok have a rating of 7/10 here on MAL.