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by King_Cold » Tue Jul 01, 2003 3:12 am
Coming back to the rating system, the reason why I use 7 as an average is because I never saw a video that deserved a 1, just like it's rare that people get 10% at school. Almost every video is acceptable. The fact that you have a music just brings the video to 5 as you should enjoy the music enough to apreciate the content of the video. And it's almost imposible to get some scenes that will actually bore you so much that even the music could'nt save the video. So 1,2,3,4 ratings should be extremely rare cause just having something should bring you to enjoy the AMV (Till here it's personal OP).
Normally something below average should repulse you and something above average should attract you. And because AMV is entertainement it's difficult to make it repulse you. That's also why ratings from 1 to 4 are rarely used. And because of this, 5 should become the bottom of the rating for AMV which is entertaining even if it's bad. Thus making 7 the average since it is the middle ;and because you never wanna give a score to high, as you never know if something better could come up we choose 7 and not 8 as the average.
I believe the essence of rating is comparaison. If you've only watched one AMV and you rate this AMV it would get a very high note. Just like if 2 Neandertal where to watch one movie each. One of them a good movie and the other a very bad movie, they would both get a relatively high note. So normally the more AMV you've watched, the more accurate will be your ratings.
Because comparaison is the basis of rating, people will rate videos based on their favorite video. So if the favorite video they watched is actually not so good, then all their ratings will be higher then it should be. If their favorite video is excellent, then all their ratings should be lower but more accurate. Maybe they should be a reference to a great video so people can use it as a base.
So I think to make people accurately rate AMV we should choose specific AMVs as reference. One which would be the worst, so that any video which make you feel the same way as this one should be given a 2. Another one should be the average, so that every video which makes you feel the same as this one should be given a 5. And a final one wish should be great, so that every video which makes you feel like this one should be given a 9.
NOTE: The great video should be given a 9 and not a 10 just like the worst one should be given a 2 to keep the more options. What if something made you feel worst than the worst reference, give it a 1 and the same goes for the best AMV.
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Suuuure it does....
. Perhaps I'll review it someday, but probably not since my reviews take like 30 minutes for me to write and I already have a number above it in the queue...maybe a special exception? 
