| should they find another hobby or entertainment? are they masochist? or what thoughts do you have with them? |
| Some people just score differently. That's it. And I don't care too much about other people's scores anyway. |
SerafosMay 3, 12:14 PM
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| I would say they are just hard to please. Edit: I want to add that the ratings of users with mean score below 5 are much more meaningful than the ratings of those with mean score above 8. If there were more users like this, then MAL scores would be more reliable than they are now. |
ZarutakuMay 4, 8:20 AM
This dance is the pinnacle of human achievement. |
| The lower your mean score, the more you love anime as a medium because it means you care about distinguishing as many different levels of good as possible. Conversely, casual anime watchers will slap a 8/10 to anything that doesn't make them fall asleep midway and call it a day, without thinking too much about it. |
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| thoughts on users that have a mean score of below 5? Bro.. Read my thing thing below, they dont deserve it mfs on this app are just bugging. |
| I am a COMPLETIONIST. Aiming to finish AS MANY ANIME as possible before DEATH, Despite them being SATISFACTORY or if they are BORING. I WATCH THE LOWEST SCORED/RATED/RANKED ANIMES ON MAL (OR you can CALL THEM The WORST animes in the WORLD - No Joke Like Seriously) No anime has actually satisfied my anime taste, That I can call a MasterPiece (10/10), still searching... hopefully one day I will find that show and obsess over it till I die. RULE NO.4 I MUST WATCH ALL CONTENT FOR THE SERIES I HAVE FINISHED, NOW THIS ONE IS QUITE EXHILARATING. |
| I don't care, it's their list, not mine, but I do think lists that have mostly 1's are worse than mostly 10's. |
rho34May 3, 12:31 PM
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| Those people must be giving enough scores below 5 (that is, 1, 2, 3 or 4) to outweight their scores above 5 (that is, 6, 7, 8, 9, or 10). Only possible explanation. |
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| I think unless its someone trying to actively see as much weird stuff as possible, they should probably reevaluate the priorities in their viewing habits. What is really the point of watching something you don't like unless its like "so bad its good" or something. Life is too short to be wasting time with stuff that doesn't engage you |
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| Maybe they love the anime medium and are willing to suffer through the mediocrity. |
People like that kinda scare me a bit, not gonna lie. Though the thing that really scares me is when I see an affinity score like this. It's only once in a blue moon I see someone I have THIS big of an affinity gap with, and so far, the only people I see with scores like this are people I find so disagreeable opinion-wise (Outside of just anime opinions) that I just don't want to interact with them, ever. |
Daviljoe193May 3, 1:33 PM
Opinions are opinions, and differing opinions can co-exist. 🙂 But I don't do debate, life's too short to spend time debating people.  |
| To me a 4 is mediocre. So if one were to score anime as 4 or less on average then I would consider that to mean they think anime is at best, mediocre. Now, if anime is not their primary hobby then the scoring that low is more understandable as that poster may pursue other avenues to get their fix of entertainment but if anime is their numero uno then that makes me head scratch a bit more. Now this is the subjective part but to me I am off the general belief that people do not continually engage in activities they don't enjoy so if someone has an average scoring of 4 or less then this is an indication they like anime more than they let on. People, on the most part, do not engage in activities they don't really like so I take those low scoring people as individuals who like to portray their attitude of anime being more negative than the reality. |
| why do they watch so much anime they don't like or don't enjoy? why are you putting yourself through misery? I met a few of these people and they usually just like watching stuff and saying it's trash, that's what gets them going Shitty existence imoe |
| " thoughts on users that have a mean score of below 5?" Maybe they are using the scoring system in a different way? |
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" thoughts on users that have a mean score of below 5?"
Maybe they are using the scoring system in a different way?
Maybe they are using the scoring system in a different way?
| @alshu alshu said: " thoughts on users that have a mean score of below 5?" Maybe they are using the scoring system in a different way? Indeed I remember once seeing the profile of a guy that scored everything from 1-5. At first this irked me a bit because this affects average scores (Though, so does the average MALer that treats 7/10 as being "average" instead of 5/10, but I digress) and made me think as to why he couldn't simply double everything... but I myself give certain anime I find good a 7 or an 8 even if this will, in the end, get it's average score lower, so who am I to complain? A way, similar to AniList, where someone could opt for different scoring systems (1-10, 1-10 with .5s, 1-5, smiling faces, etc) that get converted to a "standard" one wouldn't be very hard to implement. |
| Context matters. I know a lot of people who have an average of below 5 because theu go out of their way to watch SUPER bad shows to make fun of. The people i don't take seriously are the ones that talk about 90% of the anime they watch as if they hated every second of it. Like at that point, why even bother? Also, this is rare, but some people just scale their scores extremely weirdly, to the point where a 3 or 4 ends up being an ok show to them. which i don't understand why anyone would scale their scores like that. but that is also another exception. |
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| I don't really have much of an opinion on people with mean scores lower than 5 lol. If they completed 1,000 anime or so, then I'm sure that they still enjoy watching anime. Real masochist anime watchers I'm guessing are very few and far between. All in all, I think the only big takeaway that I get from people with mean scores below a 5 is that they rate harsher than the average person does. |
Either they enjoy being a mock strict critics or just suck at picking anime to watch or both... |
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| i really couldn't care less. i totally believe that it's subjective, people score differently and base their scoring on different things. their reason for a 7 could been a 10 for you. some people base it more analytically rather than emotionally, some are just watching for a good time, while some are here to critique everything that goes into a show. we all look for and feel differently, so bottom line is who cares really. |
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| No, in fact they are Kings and Queens How will peasants understand their supreme taste? |
| If you want to reply to my posts, come up with valid arguments instead of ad hominem HIGHER LEVEL THINKERS ONLY |
| I've got the whole ten point scale I'm gonna use the whole ten point scale. When you look at a 10 point rating system, where would you put average? 5/10? Maybe 6/10? How about 8.3 Do you not see the problem? - Crinacle |
| Either super maso or they don't have the best skill in choosing series. |
| I see some profiles and It doesnt make sense to me, If the person thinks most of the animes that bad why the person keep watching them? Masochist? |
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| Wouldn't be surprised if they have a substantially large list. Like over 1,000 completed. Achieving those numbers is more possible if you add lots of shorts or specials that would only really deflate your mean score if rated. |
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