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Originally Posted by Rethice
The MAL rating system is fine, it's the fact individual people use different rating systems and have different definitions of scores that causes problems.
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I'm of the same opinion that MAL's rating system is fine and that the problem lies in a lack of a standardized "universal" way to rate things, which ultimately means a score for individual X means something different to individual Y.
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I, for example, treat 5 as average. That just seems logical to me. 1 is unbearable and 10 is a masterpiece, why wouldn't 5 be in the middle?
I try to rate my anime comparitively depending on what I've rated other anime I've finished, so what I do is find an anime I rated perfectly average. Not good, not bad, but a 5, something I just stared at indifferently until it finished. (.hack//SIGN) for example. I'll then think; "Did I like this more or less than .hack?" If so, it goes up to 6. Then I compare it to a benchmark of 6, and then it goes up again or stays at 6, and it continues.
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With this system, only my absolute favourite anime get a rating of 10 (Perfect, in my mind), and to me this just makes more sense. If you're rating everything that took you by surprise a 10, where's the prestige? How do you seperate your favourites from things you just liked a lot?...
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I use to be similar, but lately I've become a bit more generous. Converted to 6 or a C+/B- means average in my books, 10 or A+ being what I consider masterpieces in my own eyes and 1 or F being absolutely terrible material that is so bad to the point it's offensive. 5 means a "pass" (akin to a test score where 50% means you pass, but you still kinda suck lol).
With that in mind my mean on MAL is currently 6.1 for completed series, which is spot on where I wanted it to be. Though if you count only the last two years, I will estimate it to being 6.5 or even 7 since I've become a lot less tolerant of "crap" and I seldom finish a series if I don't consider it at least a 7/10 these days (which means good). I'll typically start a new season off by watching the first few episodes of about 10 or so series, but that number will drastically fall to 3-4 at most in terms of completion.
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However, due to inflation, most people consider 7 an average. I cannot even begin to understand why people do this, being that it leaves them only 8, 9, and 10 to define anime they "like", and 1-6 to define different levels of "dislike". Because of this, most of the time many numbers (usually 2-4) get completely missed, and people will rate things 1 if they nerd-rage hard enough, and 5 if it was just bad.
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Yeh I don't get this either. Reminds me of those IGN, Gamespot, Famitsu etc game ratings where 7 or B+ seems to be the average score. However, a lot of people, (could even be the majority) seem to rate like this so people like me and you might be in the minority. MAL is no different.
Pet Peeve - Lack of decimals infuriates me with some rating sites. For example, the difference between a 8 or 8.5 or a 9 or a 9.5 is quite a bit substantial for me. A difference between 9 or 9.5 means the difference between top tier and favorites, whilst the the different between 8 or 8.5 is the difference where I'll start "fagging" about a series and recommend it to all my friends. Same with 5.5 and 6.5 which means below average and above average respectively.