Forum - View topicRatings for Staff?
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
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In the same way we have ratings for anime titles (excellent, very good, poor, etc), I thought it might be good to rate staff involved with anime.
Quite frequently viewers, critics and fans alike comment on shows based on directors, animators and character designers. I have done this since my very early days of being an anime fan. But almost all of the directors and creators who I've highly praised in the past no longer work on anime. A lot of new talent is out there and it's difficult to continue to keep track of all of them. I think it would help users overall if we could rate key staff members and view their ratings to keep track of who are the best and brightest of today's anime creative talent. And on that note maybe a separate section where we can rate ANN website and forum staff... j/k 
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dormcat
Encyclopedia Editor
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I'd say nay to this idea. Things can turn ad hominem easily: how would you rate a staff with excellent skill but horrible personality? Furthermore, fans and anti-fans would clash and spam the ratings, and feelings for a person would be far more personal and subjective than that of a title.
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Dan42
Chief Encyclopedist
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Rating an individual is too difficult and too prone to bias. If I were to do something like this, it would be to rate the various aspects of an anime (e.g. character design) and then compute a creator rating based on those "aspect ratings" in which a person was involved.
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
Posts: 3498 Location: IN your nightmares |
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I don't think the biased ratings resulting from rabid non-fans would be much different that what happens in anime ratings that result in inconsistencies and spamming.
I like Dan42's alternate suggestion. Perhaps make it focused on a particular type of staff. If a user happens to be viewing an encyclopedia entry on a person there could be a button that asks "is this person a good [whatever function they performed as a staff member]?" Clicking on these buttons would generate a count of and tabulate a ranking of different staff members based on how many votes they received. As votes come in there's a display of the rankings of the top staff members within each category such as director, character designer, chief animation director, etc. So basically you can't spam-hate a person, you can only vote positively or not at all. |
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10円
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So we'd be forbidding spam-hate while still allowing spam-love? There is just as much spam from fanboys as there is from haters in my experience. |
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Zac
ANN Executive Editor
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I kinda hate this idea. Those are all really technical jobs. Pretty much all of the jobs you see listed in the credits of an anime require a very specific technical skillset. While you can watch an anime and have the vague feeling that you didn't like the direction or the character design, that doesn't really qualify you to definitively decide whether or not someone is good at their job. I don't know what you do for a living, but would you want your name and job title listed and then have a button next to your name where total strangers who rarely have any idea what they're talking about get to rate your worth and skill? I don't think so. |
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P€|\||§_|\/|ast@
Posts: 3498 Location: IN your nightmares |
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Well I'm just offering solutions to the disadvantages people stated regarding my initial proposal. How would you go about providing some form of interactive measure of recognition to deserving staff members?
Well then isn't it a type of solution? If spam from both sides of the spectrum cancels each other out or draws what's being rated more towards a mean (useless data), then allowing only spam-love is useful data by simply comparing who gets more or less of it. Nevertheless, I get the point 
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