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User rating: Worst ever

One thing I do wish would be that we could just delete accounts that hadn't been logged in in over 6 months or something.... just some sort of way to deal with those junk accounts whose sole purpose is to trash shows.

EDIT: darn, Zalis snuck in there

(... wait.... "snuck" isn't a word? I guess I've never written it down before and it looks totally wrong but... "sneaked"? No way, "snuck" is now a word, I declare it so.)

I personally think a 10-point system is unnecessarily complex as far as rating media goes. A more basic 3 or 4-point scale would work better in my opinion, similar to the one at Anime Mikomi (where the scale is split into Buy, Rent, Watch, and Avoid.) I buy most of the anime I watch, and when I'm looking into a purchase candidate, it has to meet a fixed level of expectation or I don't shell out for it. If I'm looking at a 10-point scale, I'm not going to split hairs on if the title got an overall 7 or 8, I'm just looking at how the points are spread to get a feel for the general opinion of the show. A 10-point scale also complicates the process for people submitting votes, since subjectivity can and will throw votes by a 1-2 point margin either way between two people who have similar feelings about a show. Using Anime Mikomi's scale as an example, it forces voters to objectively say what degree of investment they believe a title is worth, and at the end of the day, that's what matters most.

One thing I noticed about the user ratings is that the bar graph doesn't alway correspond to the numbers. Like for A Girl Who Runs Through Timethere are more than twice as many worst ever votes (how can anyone rate this worst ever?) as very good votes but the bar for very good is 4 times longer than the worst ever bar.

samuraiwalt wrote:

One thing I noticed about the user ratings is that the bar graph doesn't alway correspond to the numbers. Like for A Girl Who Runs Through Timethere are more than twice as many worst ever votes (how can anyone rate this worst ever?) as very good votes but the bar for very good is 4 times longer than the worst ever bar.

That's part of the system's measures to defeat ratings spamming. If a user tends to vote a lot of things Masterpiece or a lot of things Worst Ever, their "trustworthiness" percentage goes down and their votes have less effect on the ratings and the bar lengths. I believe this is explained in one of the threads I linked to.

Titles with less than 4 votes are removed from the listing but are still counted in the ranking. This explains why there are gaps in the "#" column. The rating is an average of the scores given by voters, weighted to give less importance to users who tend to only rate very high or very low.

This rating only includes titles that have at least 19 votes. The bayesian estimate is a statistical technique used to reduce the noise due to low sample counts. In effect, the less a title has votes, the more it is pulled towards the mean (7.4485). In other words, these are the titles that many people agree are great.

I've watched several shows now that I might have not taken another look at (ex: Aishiteruze Baby) because they had very good ratings here at ANN. Generally if a lot of people think something is good, there generally has to be a reason why, and it's because it really is good. No, not everyone agrees and ratings and reviews are not the end all be all of deciding to watch anime, but it does give you an idea of what the better stuff out there is or might get you interested in something you might have not else watched or read.

My only worst ever vote went to SD gundam. Bad visual, bad sound, bad characters, bad....plot? (was there really much of one?). I felt like burning my eyes out just from watching one episode.

No other piece of anime out there has earned that much rancor from me, mainly because of this site, which alerts me to when I am at risk of stumbling onto a glorious piece of garbage.