Votes:Anime

Voting systems

AniDB offers 3 different sets of voting levels:

• 10 levels - default - 1,2,3,[...],10
• 19 levels - (a.k.a. fine grained vote) - can be activated in your profile ( on AniDB) - 1,1.5,2,2.5,3[...],10
• 901 levels - there are no buttons to use those and the way to cast the votes is a bit hacky - 1,1.01,1.02,1.03[...],10

Note:

Even though there are 3 sets of voting levels they all still count to the same voting for the anime. Meaning there aren't 2 or 3 different votes for the anime!

How to use the 901 level voting system

This is a bit tricky as there aren't buttons for this and most likely never will be. Exp never wanted to increase the voting levels to 901 levels in the first place. Though the db software doesn't care and accepts the votes anyway so you may use it, if you want to.

• Copy the following link to the url field of your browser:
  

http://anidb.info/perl-bin/animedb.pl?show=anime&aid=357&votea.rate=100&votea.ratenow=vote

You have to adjust the aid for the anime you want to vote on and the vote (the number behind votea.rate). It can be any integral number between 100 and 1000.

• Alternatively, there is a Firefox_Script that removes the current vote dropdown menu from the anime pages and replaces it with a text field in which you can write any 901 level value and then press vote.

Voting levels

Eitherway what set you decide to use, there are in the end still 10 mainlevels. To make a proper vote there are 3 easy rules you should follow:

• First, try to use 3, 5, 7 and 9 in the beginning; the most used one is 7.
  
• Second, the use of 1, 2 and 10 is very rare.
  
• Third, don't think of 10 as perfect and 1 as worst possible since those do not exist. Basically 0 and 11 represent those values and as those don't exist you can't vote for them.

10 - Sugoi
This anime is something really big; it changed your mind, gave you a whole new perspective on life and broadened your horizons. If this sounds unfamiliar to you then you have yet to watch a truly sugoi anime.
This grade is reserved only for the animes you'll never ever forget.

9 - Great

This anime is absolutely great, you were very impressed by it. Everyone should watch it, not only anime fans because everyone will enjoy it as this is the kind of anime that creates anime fans. Everything in the anime is on a very high level. Use this for only the best animes you've watched.

8 - Very good
This anime is better than good, there are a few moments you were very impressed by it and every anime fan should watch it. However, it is still not great as it still has a few points to improve.

7 - Good
This anime is good, the animation and sound is quite good and it has an original story and different characters as well. You can recommend it to the average anime fan; use this for animes you like.

6 - Fine
This anime is better than decent but still not good, there are a few moments you enjoy although you can't really recommend it to others.

5 - Decent
This anime is neither good nor bad. People can watch it whenever they are bored or when they've run out of other anime to watch.

4 - Bad
This anime is just plain bad. It has nothing to recommend, it is just plain boring. While there are worse animes it's still too bad to recommend to others.

3 - Very Bad

This is a very bad anime although still anime. There's nothing appealing about it. You cannot recommend it to anyone, not even die hard anime fans of this specific genre. If you think an anime is one of the worst ever vote a 3.

2 - Hopeless
You cannot say anything good at all about this one. Animation, sound, story, everything was really bad.
This grade is reserved only for the very bad cartoons. There is probably nothing as bad as this in AniDB. Use this only if you're absolutely certain.

1 - Unwatchable
You were not even able to watch it; it was probably the worst thing you have ever watched.

This grade is reserved only for the worst cartoons. There is probably nothing as bad as this in AniDB. Use this only if you are absolutely certain. If you are just trying to vote so that this anime does not show up for things like the Anime Hint then add it to your blacklist instead of voting 1.

Why can't I vote permanently?!

AniDB allows permanent voting only for animes that have been aired/released completely. To determine if an anime has been aired/released completely, the Finished Airing/Release Date of the anime entry is compared to the current date.
Permanent voting is possible only if the Finished Airing/Release Date is added AND lies in the past.
So, if you are unable to vote permanently it is likely that nobody has added the Finished Airing/Release Date for this anime yet.
To vote you have to look on the internet for the correct Finished Airing/Release Date of this anime and then file a creq by clicking the "request edit" link at the bottom of the anime page.
If you don't know where to find the Finished Airing/Release Date, these pages can help you.

Note:

Please always include the URL to the page where you found the Finished Airing/Release Date information in the creq comment field.