Lain, your breath be wastin'
just stop hatin'
before your medicine you be tastin'
I take ratings pretty seriously too and get bitchin' and hatin', but that's because
some people don't understand how tier lists work. And no it's not subjective either, tier lists are structured very mathematically, and last time I checked, you can't say that 1 = 2.
I know I'm essentially wasting my breath when arguing with TheCorvette, but it's entertaining. Nonetheless, as far as I'm aware he hasn't provided any sort of rebuttal against my last post in response to his, so I'm done.
My response to Sephy was just to make sure he understood that I don't care about MAL's overall ratings. When TC brings up that an anime is #2 on MAL, it doesn't make me angry or upset with MAL. It makes me annoyed with TC.
It would be neat if the scores were more meaningful, but I've given up hope for these averages of different people's different ways of scoring things to hold any true meaning long, long ago... or more specifically, about the time I noticed that the latest and greatest theatrical releases would instantaneously jump to high positions on IMDB's Top 250 due to popularity and people scoring like rabid fanboys since the movie's very fresh in their minds.
But anyway, I think I got a scheme that'd help eliminate a good amount of bias in average scores. To implement it, I'd need to create my own anime list site, but hell I might just do it. As a part of my anime guide project, y'know...
The scheme works like this: Users don't give scores. Instead, they have two lists: one for anime that they liked/would recommend, and one for anime that they disliked/wouldn't recommend.
They arrange the items on these lists in order of how much they liked/disliked them. Behind the scenes, percentages of the list correspond to numerical scores for overall averages. The liked list corresponds to scores 6-10, with the top 20% being 10, the next 20% being 9, etc. Likewise, the disliked list corresponds to scores 1-5, with the top 20% corresponding to 1, and going up from there.
That way it's impossible for users to just give all their favorites a 10/10. They're all automagically spread out through the whole spectrum of scores in a logical way. And the scores are automagically updated whenever a user places a new anime somewhere into their list.
The only downside to it is that users have to decide how to arrange their favorite anime, which can be difficult to decide. But that's a minor complaint for a system that I believe will result in more meaningful overall averages.
Though at least they're honest and know how to word things like this correctly. NIS America, you're doing good in explaining why episode 16 of Kimi ni Todoke will be missing. When FUNimation makes statements like these, they word it poorly to where it just makes people more angry and confused.
