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[[User:Antono|Antono]] 01:09, 15 February 2008 (CET) | [[User:Antono|Antono]] 01:09, 15 February 2008 (CET) | ||
it has been stated in the forum already, but let me try again. the rating system anidb use handles the "consistency" you worry about already. it does not care whatever meaning you (or anyone else) put in "7". your 7 does not equal my 7 and there's no direct (obvious) relation between the vote value and the rating value. so even if your vote "7" means "monkey", and even if we defined it to be that, the rating value "7" would still not mean "monkey". it's merely an estimated value that only has meaning relative to all the other rating values. (as we decided to keep the inner workings of the system secret you pretty much have to take my word on this). | |||
the guidelines were written before the current rating system was implemented and assumed a trivial arithmetic mean. to keep them would just be to prentend that nothing changed and let everyone live in ignorance. granted, they did not really hurt the rating system, but they did a) give users the impression that the ratings could easily be mapped to some meaning, b) effectively limit the range of vote values actually used by imposing a "strict" mindset (trying to), (both of which is negative for the users). | |||
--[[User:Epoximator|Epoximator]] 10:21, 15 February 2008 (CET) | |||