What weird things do you notice about your catalog entries?

[8bit_samurai]

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.

Anything in between 3 and 3.75 would work, really. It's just a matter of taste and paying attention to the details. In my experience in super searching, I order by stars and the top hit would usually be in between 3.70 and 3.85. Anything above 3.5 is usually pretty average and I wouldn't hesitate watching. Anything below, on the other hand, I'm pretty reluctant to watch, but most likely will end up watching anyways.

[BasharOfTheAges]

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?

If I hadn't heard of either one, I wouldn't consider the 15,000 to be a valid number knowing what I know about how hits can be artificially manufactured.

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.

I'd figure you'd realize a chance for cynicism and point out that sturgeon's law suggests the typical vid is a 1.5 or so, we just have too many people that have the pattern recognition skills necessary to not download enough of them in the first place to skew the numbers.

[8bit_samurai]

Round and round in circles we go.

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?

If I hadn't heard of either one, I wouldn't consider the 15,000 to be a valid number knowing what I know about how hits can be artificially manufactured.

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 :>

Also, using hits alone is pretty stupid, but using hits with other data provided in user's catalogue and the video information page for the video can be pretty useful.

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.

I'd figure you'd realize a chance for cynicism and point out that sturgeon's law suggests the typical vid is a 1.5 or so, we just have too many people that have the pattern recognition skills necessary to not download enough of them in the first place to skew the numbers.

A typical vid may be 1.5, but a typical mediocre vid would be around 3.5.

2/5. Try expanding your vocab a bit rather than recycling words.

[BasharOfTheAges]

Round and round in circles we go.

Nothing you quoted contradicts anything else. The numbers simply are not valid. They do not accurately represent what they suggest to represent. There's no safeguard - they can't.

How many Hits does Dedicated to Godix have?

[Nya-chan Production]

Bigger number is bigger than a smaller one and I have never heard of anyone trying to rig the Hits counter.

That's enough to me to believe that I can use Hits counter as one of the guidance factors.

[hasteroth]

(An old pic I know)
I'm amazed at how my completely relevant post when quoted by Nya-chan lead this into a debate over the value of hits/star ratings.

[JaddziaDax]

Based on star average, I notice that the number one rated video I have is the one I had the least amount of fun making, and also that it's probably rated so high because it was a mep that included actual popular editors.

My number two is one of my favorites and I had a blast making it.

Number three I threw together in a few hours at the request of a friend who hates most anime. Also, I don't like that song much.

[Elcalavero]

I've noticed that the only video I've ever submitted to contest(s) (2 years ago), Red Reflections , Has gotten the most hits thus far. The rating is fairly high as well.

[hasteroth]

I've noticed that the only video I've ever submitted to contest(s) (2 years ago), Red Reflections , Has gotten the most hits thus far. The rating is fairly high as well.

That's probably pretty normal. The video gets publicity at a contest then people may want to watch it again. In my experience I've done that several times.

[Kaream]

Thought I'd contribute something relevant to this topic.
One of my highest is Bad Blood with 1688 hits and 144 downloads, which is surprising that anyone watches my shit.