What weird things do you notice about your catalog entries?

[BasharOfTheAges]

Hits is an absolutely worthless metric in the first place.

Log out, go to vid page, F5 for an hour, ???, profit hits.

[Kyssifur]

I noticed that Number 1 is the number 1.

Nothing else...

[NS]

Hits is an absolutely worthless metric in the first place.

Log out, go to vid page, F5 for an hour, ???, profit hits.

But since nobody logs out and does that for an hour it's not an ABSOLUTELY worthless metric. Sure people may go to the vid page more then just once, but it doesn't mean it's completely useless.

[8bit_samurai]

The only time I would think hits are worthless is that if the catalogue entry is a MEP or if it has so many hits that it doesn't matter anymore. Same would go for the star rating, I would think.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Hits is an absolutely worthless metric in the first place.

Log out, go to vid page, F5 for an hour, ???, profit hits.

But since nobody logs out and does that for an hour it's not an ABSOLUTELY worthless metric. Sure people may go to the vid page more then just once, but it doesn't mean it's completely useless.

Well, they're not unique or bound by anything, so spiders, bots, etc. will alter them as well.

[Nya-chan Production]

Hits is an absolutely worthless metric in the first place.

Log out, go to vid page, F5 for an hour, ???, profit hits.

But since nobody logs out and does that for an hour it's not an ABSOLUTELY worthless metric. Sure people may go to the vid page more then just once, but it doesn't mean it's completely useless.

Well, they're not unique or bound by anything, so spiders, bots, etc. will alter them as well.

Though they will alter them for everyone (more or less) equally, so were back to square one :>

[BasharOfTheAges]

Well, they're not unique or bound by anything, so spiders, bots, etc. will alter them as well.

Though they will alter them for everyone (more or less) equally, so were back to square one :>

If people don't go out and search for vids by hit count or decide to download based on hit count, then they have no comparative value for the consumer, only the producer. If the numbers are skewed upwards, it's an inflated value that has some unmeasurable amount of fudge built into it. How can you take that as being worth anything?

[8bit_samurai]

The only time I would think hits are worthless for a producer is that if the catalogue entry is a MEP or if it has so many hits that it doesn't matter anymore. Same would go for the star rating, I would think.

fix'd. hits and star ratings are pretty useful if used together by the consumer, especially if it has so many hits and star counts. Generally, if a video has a lot of hits and has a star rating average of about 3.75, it can be safe to assume that it's a mediocre video at best. It may not be what the consumer is looking for, but it is still edited well enough. But if a video has low hits and a high star rating average, it would be hard to assume anything. It could be anything between the best AMV ever made and a very poorly edited video that the editor's acquaintances gave it a high star rating just because they are the editor's acquaintances. And so on and so forth.

[Nya-chan Production]

Generally, if a video has a lot of hits and has a star rating average of about 3.25, it can be safe to assume that it's a mediocre video at best. It may not be what the consumer is looking for, but it is still edited well enough.

fix'd. Considering the number of people rating with 3, "mediocre quality" starts at about 3.25. To ascertain this, you can check the top star ratings - even the best videos (including everlasting hits like Euphoria etc) don't get to 4.5. 3.7 is actually pretty good and anything over 4 means anyone (except genre haters) can enjoy it.

All of this supposed you have enough hits, ofc.

Well, they're not unique or bound by anything, so spiders, bots, etc. will alter them as well.

Though they will alter them for everyone (more or less) equally, so were back to square one :>

If people don't go out and search for vids by hit count or decide to download based on hit count, then they have no comparative value for the consumer, only the producer. If the numbers are skewed upwards, it's an inflated value that has some unmeasurable amount of fudge built into it. How can you take that as being worth anything?

So you say that a video released 2 years ago that has 15,000 hits doesn't differ from a video released at the same time that has 500 hits at all?

[godix]

Median star rating is 3.5. I have no idea what the mean is, but still, around 3.5 is a 'typical' vid. So 3.75 would be better than usual, 3.25 is worse.