Post Ratings
Well, as you probably noticed, I started rating animes and mangas some time ago with the "personal enjoyment" thing.
The thing is, I think I’ve been rating them badly, not following any kind of standard rules or anything like that, which, I think, as made me rate a lot of stuff a little higher than I really should.
So, so you can understand the ratings a little better and specially to help me in this job, I decided to create a little list now explainin how rating will work from now on.
First, I’ll be keeping the 1 to 5 scale. I think a small scale like this fits well, as I’m not interested in very detailed rankings. It’s just supposed to be a really overall rating, not something to compare posts and see if I liked this one a little better than the other one.
Second, very basically, 1 and 2 will mean it’s bad and 3 through 5 will mean it’s good, (as far as my opinion goes of course).
Now, here’s the list, I’ll try to detail it as much as I can:
- 1 - This means it’s bad, really bad, I probably didn’t enjoy it at all and it failed in almost every aspect. I doubt I’ll be giving many of these.
- 2 - It means it’s bad, failed to deliver, bored me and wasn’t enjoyable. Not as bad as 1 though.
- 3 - This means it was good, not much but, entertaining enough. Still room for large improvement.
- 4 - It was really good. I probably enjoyed it a lot. Most of it was very well done. I really liked it. Hope every series kept this level..
- 5 - Almost perfect, excelled in everything. I really can’t see how it could have been better, delivered everything I wanted or more. I’m 100% satisfied with what I’ve read/watched.
So, that’s it. If I followed this from the beginning, I would have probably given a lot more 2s and 3s at least.
Also, if you ever encounter some kind of error, be it broken links, misspelled words, stuff that I wrote that you think it’s wrong, screen shots that don’t belong to the episode/chapter/movie/ova/etc in question.. Please let me know, there’s a high chance that I didn’t do it on purpose lol and I just didn’t fix it because I didn’t notice it.
Thanks everyone for taking the time to read this, keep visiting the blog and helping it grow.
I have never found review scores to be helpful. If I want to know how good an anime is, I’d actually read your review.
Comment by Jura — March 8, 2009 @ 6:10 pm
I agree with you on the last part but, if a score can quickly let you know some minor info on a show. it can be helpful in some cases.
but, just like you, when I’m interested in a review, I actually read it instead of just looking to the scores
Comment by Darknives — March 8, 2009 @ 7:11 pm