Pending Stars and Ratings

piscespisces219 · Post by **piscespisces219** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:04 am

Here's a suggestion. I like that you cannot continue to download amvs until you have rated them. However, a number of amvs that I have downloaded don't work properly because I do not have the updated codecs.

So I have a number of pending ratings that I don't know how to rate. Should I just throw in an arbitrary star rating? That doesn't seem fair.

How bout adding a N/A star rating that doesn't affect the score average, and allows us to clear it from our queue of pending stars. If you want, you can even keep a tally of the N/A star ratings as a seperate statistic to let people know that people are having difficulty playing the downloaded amv.

Purge · Post by **Purge** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 9:22 am

rofl ??????????????? download VLC player and watchem

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 10:59 am

Give them a 3. Hell, a 3 isn't really good or bad.

Arigatomina · Post by **Arigatomina** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 1:39 pm

I don't think they'll accept that excuse as a good reason for a N/A option. Not when we have a guide telling how to play just about any format amv you can find here. It's the second guide in the guides section:
http://www.animemusicvideos.org/guides/playback/

Some videos are just buggy and unplayable, but usually if you tell the creator he'll request the video be deleted and replace it with a working version - you can rate that working version instead of the unplayable one. So...yeah, all videos should be playable if you try.

Still, if you don't want to get the codecs to play the video, or if you just don't want to bother watching the video, give a 3. You can't punish the creator with a 1 because you were too lazy to watch the video, and you shouldn't reward him with a 5 for using a format so difficult to decode that it was unwatchable. A 3 is average.

A good tip, though, if you download a lot of 'unplayable due to format' videos - check the local information before you download. If you know you can't play certain formats (because you can't or don't want to get the appropriate player+codecs), then avoid those formats. Stick to mpg and wmv and you should be able to watch all the vids you download with windows media player. You'll miss out on a lot of good amvs, but you won't have to give fake stars to videos you didn't watch.

Keeper of Hellfire · Post by **Keeper of Hellfire** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 3:41 pm

Arigatomina wrote:Some videos are just buggy and unplayable, but usually if you tell the creator he'll request the video be deleted and replace it with a working version - you can rate that working version instead of the unplayable one.

That's a really good advice and I wish someone had done it with with my first AMV's. They worked fine with WMP, so I didn't notice, but caused crashes in other players. After I found it out myself, I was able to fix it and uploaded a working version.

Not rating a vid is as bad as giving a 3. Maybe if you had watched it you had given a 4 or 5 because it was good or had rated it with a 1 or 2 because it was that crappy? Never forget, if the editor isn't a real dumb ass, s/he has watched the version that s/he uploaded. You should judge on the creators ability to make an AMV and not on yours to play it. Of course, if s/he had used a really unusal and exotic codec/container, you can lower the star rating.

Cornwiggle · Post by **Cornwiggle** » Wed Jun 28, 2006 4:44 pm

Keeper of Hellfire wrote:
Arigatomina wrote:
Not rating a vid is as bad as giving a 3. Maybe if you had watched it you had given a 4 or 5 because it was good or had rated it with a 1 or 2 because it was that crappy? Never forget, if the editor isn't a real dumb ass, s/he has watched the version that s/he uploaded. You should judge on the creators ability to make an AMV and not on yours to play it. Of course, if s/he had used a really unusal and exotic codec/container, you can lower the star rating.

Yeah, it is an assholish thing to do, and I try to avoid. But it's better than really lowering it (with a 2 or 1) or raising it, even though it MIGHT deserve it but still that's like opinioning your own stuff with all 10s. If you don't watch why give them undeserved praise (from you).

But really, you should just try and watch the vids, download the codecs or another player.

slickcatguy · Post by **slickcatguy** » Fri Jun 30, 2006 8:08 pm

Yeah nothing is written in stone for the star rating.....but I try to agree with cornwiggle and give them what they deserve......but I always try to leave a message.......this does not apply when I watch the video and sit at the end going "whhaaaaaaa............" and thats when they just get a three and I leave it alone....kinda consider 3 the 'just forget my vote' vote

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