| I made this post to check out everyone's mean scores. Drop yours in the comments and let's see how we all rate our anime. Do You Consider Yourself a Generous or a Harsh Scorer? mean score- 6.75 |
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| I can be both. It depends on the show. |
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| My mean is 4.9 and I'd consider myself to be pretty harsh. I rarely give out 10s and even if I liked a show I still might only give it a 5. |
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| Generous. Sometimes when I think about how I would rate an anime if I had the same expectations than when it comes to movies or books I always realize I rate anime one or two points higher than I should. |
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| I score everything as a 10 because I can't be bothered. |
| I think I am one of the most "fair" scorers on the website. I tend to give every series the benefit of the doubt, but I also always consider and point of the flaws or short comings of even the shows that I adore. I can make a pretty good case for pretty much all my scores, in a way that the vast majority of people would at the very least consider it reasonable. On a side note, I did not expect the creator of this thread to be someone who has seen less than 20 anime. I feel like that's really not enough data to know how harsh or generous you are with scores. |
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5.25, and I'd still consider myself a generous scorer
| @Atm0SS that doesn't add up you are either lying, or you have seen a LOT of bad anime. |
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I think I am one of the most "fair" scorers on the website. I tend to give every series the benefit of the doubt, but I also always consider and point of the flaws or short comings of even the shows that I adore.
I can make a pretty good case for pretty much all my scores, in a way that the vast majority of people would at the very least consider it reasonable.
On a side note, I did not expect the creator of this thread to be someone who has seen less than 20 anime. I feel like that's really not enough data to know how harsh or generous you are with scores.
I can make a pretty good case for pretty much all my scores, in a way that the vast majority of people would at the very least consider it reasonable.
On a side note, I did not expect the creator of this thread to be someone who has seen less than 20 anime. I feel like that's really not enough data to know how harsh or generous you are with scores.
| @APolygons2 APolygons2 said: You rated Mars Red a 9. I've got the best "fair" rating on this website but I you let be second.I think I am one of the most "fair" scorers on the website. |
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| Super generous, especially if the show has music that I like Mean 7.45 |
| Can be in-between depending on the title's premise and how it compares with others in its genre. |
Reply to Alpha_1_Zero
@APolygons2
APolygons2 said:
I think I am one of the most "fair" scorers on the website.
You rated Mars Red a 9. I've got the best "fair" rating on this website but I you let be second.I think I am one of the most "fair" scorers on the website.
| @Alpha_1_Zero Mars red is a great show! There is so much detail, and thought put into it's directing, style, art, writing and story structure, if you give it a real chance, and look at the sheer number of things it does extremely well, you'll find a lot to love about it. anyone that I have suggested mars red to, while giving them an idea on what to look for, has come back telling it was indeed a hidden gem. |
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| More generous than harsh. Mean score is: 7.5 Rate based on enjoyment and a bit on 'objectiveness' |
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| I don't think that I consider myself harsh or generous in that sense :) It can only look harsh due to how the system works. For example, 10/10 is reserved for one most favorite piece of medium and 9/10 is reserved for favorites, which means that a "regular" anime can only receive as high as 8/10. Sure, it's harsh compared to people who give high scores to everything they liked or thought was good, but that's just how it is - there is no malicious intent behind it or desire to be harsh. There are just too many numbers to deal with lol and that's one way of making them have a distinct purpose. My current mean score for anime is 5.45 and 5.80 for manga (both will become lower after I properly re-adjust some of the scores). Anime mean score suffered greatly due to my past experiences, mostly because of all the battle shounen side content that I watched in the past - it was meant to be rated horribly low, and I can't just pretend that I never watched it and keep it off my list. I honestly stopped caring how high or low it might look - as long as the overall system I developed for myself functions nicely and makes sense to me. After all, the purpose for having a profile on MAL was to create a personal hierarchy using scores and track new things comfortably, not something detached and impersonal. |
| I am way too generous when it comes to giving scores. |
If you enjoyed the time you wasted, then its not a waste of time.  |
| Mean score: 5.27 for anime 5.21 for manga I think I'm fair. Mean score should be around 5 because 5=average. You might argue that people mostly watch good shows so mean score should be a bit higher. But I personally used to watch literally everything before. I don't do that anymore and I'm noticing that it's getting higher very slowly. |
| I am both. Used to give lower scores to hated genres (like ecchi) and higher scores to favorite genres (like GAR. I still overrate them a bit though). Now, 10+ years later, I try to force myself to be more objective. So, now I am a bit more generous. I try to find something good even in bad. About my mean score, I dunno. I use whole 10 scores, unlike 98% of MAL users. I often have negative affinity with other users lol. More than 5% is considered by me as something respectable already. My mean score is 5.52. With 5 being "average", it's literally above average. It could be a bit higher if not my hobby watching short random videos, obscure things and 1/10 worthy shows. My goal is to reach 6.0 some time. |
Nemo_NiemandApr 28, 2024 9:22 AM
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| In the past I have been way more generous as my likings were quite different and I could consume anything and enjoy it, while recently I am more harsh as my mean score before was around 8.5 and now it is 7.7. I don't change my ratings so the previous shows which I have seen 9-10+ years ago will still increase my main score. |
| A bit more generous. I tend to mostly only watch things I think I may enjoy |
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| Generous I think. Mean score of 7 is pretty generous |
| Quite generous usually. Mean score of 7.42. If it was good enough that I bothered to finish it, I usually end up giving it a 7. If it's bad I often just drop it and don't even add it to my list. |
| I am generally pretty generous, however lately I have become more critical...within reason. Mean Score = 7.5 |
The Matrix has you... |
| My mean score is 6.58 I would say I score fairly based on my enjoyment |
| Generous when compared to my previous mean score(s), I remember having at it as low as 4.70 or something lol. |
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| Pretty generous. Like, if I'm stuck between two scores, I'll often go up, rather than down. And I'm already trying to choose anime that I'll actually enjoy watching, so it's no wonder that most of what I watch gets at least 6+ from me. My mean score is 6.96, probably pulled way down by all of the time I used to be willing to waste on anime that I didn't really like. I've been glad to see it inching up slowly in recent years. |
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| Very harsh lol. It's like a 2.78 for the time being. The more I saw anime and consumed various other media, the more I burnt myself out and nowadays, my scores definitely require me to enjoy the show a lot to be good. Production can matter at times but for me, the story and characters need to be great and I need to be enjoying it and there are so many seasonal anime that I have seen over 6-7 years that have failed in being fun and having characters/story I care for, which leads my ratings to be very low with many 1s-2s since I didn't find much value in the end. This even applied to shows I binged around a few years back. Many dreadful, boring fantasy stories or flat, underwhelming shounen anime or overly cringey, sugary and imbalanced romance anime all can affect it badly from season to season (besides the amount I have already binged beyond those seasonals). Nowadays, I don't even talk much for shows I rate very low (whether airing or stuff I saw years prior) since it is a burnout to even argue about that. I do look back at older scores from time to time and even now, maybe a couple of scores might feel a bit outdated then and deserve a raise at times so not too much of a difference would be made nowadays. I know it's harsh but it's basically near impossible to magically change myself to be suddenly and genuinely generous and nice. |
| I am a really generous scorer. My mean score right now is 7.43. With that being said is not like I just give out scores for anything, I just tend to like a lot the majority of things I watch. |
| "Those words are meant for those that dare defy god's final warning... An epigraph of their stubbornness" - Maho Hiyajo (Steins;Gate 0)  |
| Mine is 7.72 I used to Give a 10 to only anime that gave me radically intense goosebumps, Like Overlord and BNHA Movie But now, I give a 10 to Every Anime (And it's OVA, Specials) if it has an extremely immersive and deep story that made me feel bliss or if it made me cry, Though I do deduct points if there are things I don't like, (e.g. I like ecchi, but Shinmai Maou has explicit sexual acts) I'd say I'm more on the generous side |
Entity72Apr 29, 2024 5:30 PM
| I don't even score anime shows btw... |
Reply to Zettaiken
In the past I have been way more generous as my likings were quite different and I could consume anything and enjoy it, while recently I am more harsh as my mean score before was around 8.5 and now it is 7.7. I don't change my ratings so the previous shows which I have seen 9-10+ years ago will still increase my main score.
Zettaiken said: In the past I have been way more generous as my likings were quite different and I could consume anything and enjoy it, while recently I am more harsh as my mean score before was around 8.5 and now it is 7.7. I don't change my ratings so the previous shows which I have seen 9-10+ years ago will still increase my main score. Pretty much the same here, but I try to be fair and reasonable when rating/scoring after I finish/complete an anime. |
| Somewhere in the middle. It's a case by case thing. I'm just as likely to give something I thought was good a lower score because of some issues I had as I am to give something I thought was bad a higher score because it was a fun watch. It makes sense to me. The thing I don't do is rate things I dropped, which would have a pretty good impact on my mean score if I did. |
| Generous with the anime I like, harsh with the anime I don't enjoy: that's what having a high standard deviation means. The more I use the full rating scale, the better my list will portray my taste. I'd say I'm also generous with the anime I drop too early, since I leave them unrated even though the vast majority of them would have definitely gotten a 1 or a 2 from me. |
| I thought I was a harsh one, but I lean more toward average or generous. Mean score 6.39 |
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| My mean score is still 7. But I think I am harsh scorer. |
| Gotten more cynical with my scoring as the years have gone on. |
| My scoring is definitely generous. I use 7 as an average score and watch more of what I like than what I dislike. My stats are also skewed by sequels that usually get the same score as their predecessors. n = 257 mean = 7.61 stdev = 1.53 |
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| I consider myself quite generous (mean score 7.25). Nowadays, most of the time I give shows that i finished scores between 6-10 (shows that i still enjoyed /did have a good time watching, regardless of it being objectively good or bad), and i don't give shows that I finished 5 or less score anymore (shows that i objectively consider bad and also didn't enjoy watching). It's because as you grow older, you only have so much time to watch stuff so i make sure i'll only watch shows that i'm confident i can finish (shows that i find fun even if it's bad/trashy), even if it'd take ages to complete. |
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| I think I score things relatively normal (my mean is 6.24) |
| Mean score 7.45, definitely on the generous side of things. Huge bias towards any anime that has music or CGDCT I tend to rate based off of my level of enjoyment rather than the actual quality of the show, and I am rather easy to please |
| A fair one. I don't consider my scores to have either a positive or negative slant that may indicate a bias on my part. |
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| Mean score: 7.52 I wouldn't say I am a harsh scorer, but not generous either. I rate a lot of "meh, could be better" shows a 7, and shows that I enjoyed an 8 or above, and anything under 7, which are the really bad shows, I keep those unrated. |
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| Probably generous. Mean score 7.3. 6 is where I typically land for shows that meet the bare minimum of "did I enjoy it more than I disliked it?" Nowadays if I dislike a show or just find it not my taste, then I usually drop it, in which case I don't rate it because I don't like to pass judgment if I haven't seen the whole thing. I bet if I went back and rewatched the older shows I have in the 6-7 range I'd probably put a lot of them lower now lol. |
-Trippwire-May 5, 2024 8:19 PM
I'm a fair scorer. or like to think so |
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