Talk:Votes

Removal of explicitly stated rating guidelines

Just wondering: why remove the recommended grading guidelines for AniDB? In my opinion, the guidelines provided a great way to rethink carefully about what your thoughts on an anime are, and helped to stop me from getting carried away voting too highly on an anime I'd just finished watching, keeping my ratings self-consistent. It gets hard to manage this if you only have a vague idea of what your scale should look like, so it was very useful to double-check the guidelines before voting.

It was also fairly harsh as rating systems go, giving good but not fantastic anime a modest 7, leaving plenty of room for improvement. (plus, when linking people to my myvotes, "what, only a 7!?" comments could be directed to the vote guidelines).

It was also a resource for people to check how they "should" be voting, so people (who cared) could try to vote on the same scale as everyone else[1] to keep the average votes balanced. It also would give people who are checking a user's myvotes a sense of what each score probably means to that person, since we have no way at present to attach a comment to a score (the only way of doing so is via a long review).

Anyway, just my thoughts. I think it was useful... and I personally don't really see much reason to completely get rid of it. But anyway. Maybe I'll just save a copy for myself from the edit history. :)

[1]Perhaps you're saying this doesn't mean anything anymore under the new rating system? So a person's individual voting style would affect how they contribute to the overall vote or something.

Hyperworm 16:30, 1 February 2007 (UTC)