Cornwiggle wrote:And back to the vid you download that you think would be good and it just...sucked on so many levels, and you give it all 1s (again it's hard to find a vid THAT bad, just one being THAT perfect) and you give you perfectly logical reasons as to why you gave that vid a 1 for this area and that one. How is that still flaming? You're giving your OP to the creator in hopes that they will approve, but the vid you watched just sucked.
All 1s is not always just a flame. If 1s are considered to flame, why do we even have them? It's stupid.
All 1s ops are only deleted if they're accompanied by text proving they were done for spite, to attack the creator. If there are legitimate all 1s ops, you never see them because the creators don't report them in the forum. Not all 1s ops are automatically gotten rid of, it's just the ones you see people complaining about - because they're openly flaming.
I've given a lot of ops, a few of which honestly deserved all 10s. I break down the scores, so I have a clear level of comparison from vid to vid. Some vids are perfect on all the technical aspects, show an outrageous amount of effort, make me so fangirlishly giddy I watch them on repeat for days after downloading them, and have nothing in them that I'd change. That's a 10 in every category - honest and deserved. It's rare for me to find a vid like that, but it has happened.
On the other hand I've never found a video that honestly deserved 1s in every category. I've reviewed 2mb rm dbz vids and even they didn't deserve a 1 for audio. It's amazingly difficult to earn a 1 for audio. Having a rare 1-audio combined with the equally difficult 1 for video is even more rare. And then finding a vid that deserves a 1 for effort? Nearly impossible. I've only found one vid that deserved a 1 for effort and that was because it was someone else's video - the creator just changed the audio and reposted it. That's zero for effort, so it got a 1. Any other video at least deserves a 3+ because anyone who manages to edit a bit of a music video put in the minimum effort (2) and then some.
I can give 1s for reviewability a lot, honestly, but trying to defend an op giving 1s to everything is impossible for me. I just haven't found a video technically bad enough for scores like that. Not outside of the streaming sites - and even they would average a 3 for capture quality (really bad, but still visible). A 1 would be the absolute worst. A 1 for capture would be a video so poorly compressed you can't see it at all. I haven't run across that to date.