【Anime Guild】Review Thread - Winter 2018 Event Prelude

HaXXspetten said:
I have been considering this too actually. In general I'd just say that anything that ends during the Fall season should be eligable for the end-of-season list for said Fall season. That seems pretty logical to me at least. So I guess in that case the answer would be yes to all three. Not that I know how many people are actually interested in doing stuff like specials but I won't stop you. I was thinking about reviewing Shoujo Ramune after the 2nd episode comes out in December for example so I guess I could include that here as well if so

Fall said:
Sounds good to me, then.

I've got one more question that I probably should have mentioned originally: What about OVAs that start in the current season but end the season afterwards? Zaregoto being the example here, but most hentai that aren't just an episode long are like this too. Should we be only reviewing completed series in the end-of-season list?

HaXXspetten said:
I think for the same reason you don't want to review 2-cours halfway through them, the same should be true for abnormalities like Zaregoto. So I would probably say no to that

Hentai is a bit weird though because a lot of the time it's rather unclear how many episodes they're supposed to be. I often find entries I've long since marked as completed suddenly pop up in my watching list again because another episode was suddenly announced like a year later, although that's probably not worth thinking about here. But let's just say if the final episode of something seemingly airs sometime during this season, then it's eligible. If it doesn't, then it's not. Think that's probably the easiest way to do it

Hibbington said:
I guess I'll still post my new review in here, made a review on Baccano.
https://myanimelist.net/reviews.php?id=233298

meison said:
lol

what has this got to do with fall season XD

meison said:
so we can post our reviews in this AG review thread? o_o

HaXXspetten said:
What did you have in mind

vladkob said:
i want to sing up too! :D

HaXXspetten said:
You're gonna sing for us? Damn, I have to remember to record it then

lovelyangel666 said:
btw I messaged the moderators and so far no one has given me a good reason why they automatically assume that a review is incomplete just because you haven't watched the last episode.

Forgotten_Memo said:
Yup I would like a reminder. Will probably do a review/analysis of Shelter.

HaXXspetten said:
Well if you make a review without watching the whole show, then you won't be basing your analysis on the entire span of the anime, which a review is technically supposed to do.And if you just update a review written earlier once the show has ended (and thus make yours "up to date" so to speak), then you're still left with the fact that any upvotes you got prior to updating it won't really be legitimate anymore, as what they upvoted is something else from what the review now contains.

HaXXspetten said:
So for fairness' sake, it should be reset to 0 first, which is effectively the same as just deleting it and reuploading it. So I think it makes sense

HaXXspetten said:
@lovelyangel666
Yeah it's still far from perfect, but you at least have to make some sort of consistent ruleset that applies for any anime. So while it's true that you can more or less judge some shows without finishing them (like plotless comedies/moe shows etc), the same is obviously not true for all anime, and it'd be extremely difficult to moderate every entry in MAL's database on a case-by-case basis. The staff team would have to actually watch the shows in order to be able to say if an early judging could be accurate or not, which is obviously unreasonable to ask, especially considering how small the review mod team is already. But even if you were hypothetically able to do so, it'd still end up very subjective in the end. There would be many shows which some people will argue you have to finish to be able to analyze properly, whereas others would say the opposite. In order to have a proper review guideline system, every entry would have to be based on unarguable objective facts rather than any subjective interpretations, so that system wouldn't really work


If it was up to me, the changes I would make to the current MAL review system are:

1) Remove all scores from reviews. They only make people judge reviews by the numbers you give the show rather than actually read the text, which both counteracts the purpose of reviewing in the first place, but also since everyone has different rating systems, the exact scores will mean different things for different people anyway so you can't really draw any good conclusions from it regardless. And if some users still really want to have scores for some reason, then you can still just include that in the review itself. So there's no downside to doing this

2) Track all upvotes so that you can see what users voted for which reviews. This way any obvious abuse will be noticable (though not to the same extent anymore after they removed the downvote button)

3) Add some sort of short mandatory feedback system when voting. I.E: when you upvote something, you also have to shortly say why you upvoted it. These comments should be visible in some dropdown tab on the review page similar to how the current recommendations section works. That way people will be discouraged from using 10+ alt accounts to go around upvoting all their reviews as they for one would have to put a lot more effort into it (which trolls rarely want to do), but also if they just copy paste the same thing from every account's feedback then that'll also be easily noticable as abuse and thus you can report it. At the same time it will also encourage people to actually provide constructive criticism to each other in a quick and easy way without having to go to the author's profile and start a private conversation if you just want to comment on his/her review

benkarN said:
How many show should we do reviews on? :s

benkarN said:
How many show should we do reviews on? :s