Fiiiiieeeeew... good thing I dropped by when this topic was still at just 3 pages :s Anymore and I'd kill someone from reading-frustration
Anyway I don't know if I'm in the right mood right now to be replying to this but in my opinion:
Keep the rating system as it is.I've read a lot of crazy stuff such as changing to a
rating system with only 4 options ?? Dude be realistic; just get rid of the system then because
4 options is just pointless.
Even more to the extreme with just 'i like it' & 'i dont'
Also as rileel or releel
(I don't remember; he had some (big) posts) said before, and I'll say it again, the
many ratings of 10 can hardly be called abuse. A popular series 'true' rating will probably be atleast about 8. A 10 is maximumly 2pts off ?? Now lets see for a "1"... 8-1= 2? nooo wait it's 7!
Anyway like Manic said in theory the 0-rating should be added as well; but then again the mangaka of a 0-rated manga shouldn't even be able to hold his pen
Also removing the 1-rating votes could solve some of the 'abuse' (for the time being), but it would still be a pain in the ass for those who (somehow) voted a '1' with a valid reason .
But
removing the 1-rating votes is something that can be done; in contrary to removing the 10-rating votes as some are suggesting.
(1) There are waaaaaaaaaaay more '10's than '1's; thus the amount of users that'll have to review their list is waaaaaaaay bigger.
(2) In addition to (1); most '1's are deviations to the other ratings of the series. This amount is probably (relativly) bigger than those of '10's
(Don't know how to use certain statistical terms in other languages sorry for that)Ugh I feel like there are still some things I forgot to mention here and there but atleast this gives my general opinion. Again; the rating system isn't that bad; even with some 'unjust' ratings as '1's and '10's.
What reminds me that
people voting '1' should perphaps not vote at all? I mean if you vote 1 while an overwhelming majority disagrees with you; something must be 'off' in that head of yours right? Maybe wrong genre? (Hell I could go 1-rate each and every shoujo that I can find here with the exception of few). If not well than I guess you can justifiably vote '1'... somehow...
OK ~ Bottom line of this reply ==>
Change if you must; sweep&clean if you must but don't do anything drastic!EDIT ~ couldn't help but reread the post above me as well
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Quote from syne
One option I could think of was making it able to click on the votes and view the people who voted, so one could compare his/her tastes and see if the vote would be close to accurate on his/her side as well.
Nice suggestion but you can practicly do this already; in the series page you just click on the number of users that has the series in their reading/completed/unfinished list and you will view such a list; with next to the user link, the rating they have given.
Last edited by Zacharias at 3:26 am, Mar 13 2008