Does Anyone Really Care About The Star System?
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Does Anyone Really Care About The Star System?
I was just looking over my AMVs and I noticed that two of my
AMVs were the same score-even though one of them took me 2 hours to make and is terrible and the other took over a month and is much better.
I don't see the real point in them, at least opinions can help you improve but star ratings seem to be designed to make people feel very good when they get 4-5 and then get really depressed when they then go down to about 1 or 2 (as posts in this forum have stated-I might find some later).
Thoughts?
AMVs were the same score-even though one of them took me 2 hours to make and is terrible and the other took over a month and is much better.
I don't see the real point in them, at least opinions can help you improve but star ratings seem to be designed to make people feel very good when they get 4-5 and then get really depressed when they then go down to about 1 or 2 (as posts in this forum have stated-I might find some later).
Thoughts?
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- Kai Stromler
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Star ratings are the system's reaction to the usefulness metric and the gain in currency of the meme that "opinion" really means "close reading and/or critical review". I can cut apart a video in the opinion caption with regard to technical fillips and still give it 5 stars if it regardless managed to rock. Similarly it's possible to attach a 1 or 2 to a well-constructed but soulless and boring video, while the weighting to technical considerations will necessitate a high-ish opinion score.
Do I care about star ratings? Not really; it's fun to track which videos are 'overperforming' relative to input effort, and informative to see which are doing so poorly that it's obvious the audience doesn't get something, but other than that it's just a number, with too many counterexamples to be considered authoritative or 100% relevant.
It is an impenetrable mystery to me why this video has a star average of 2.6 (though I think it rocks), and this one is running at 3.5 (though I think it's one of the dumbest pieces of crap I've ever put out). Video fidelity can't be worth THAT much....
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Do I care about star ratings? Not really; it's fun to track which videos are 'overperforming' relative to input effort, and informative to see which are doing so poorly that it's obvious the audience doesn't get something, but other than that it's just a number, with too many counterexamples to be considered authoritative or 100% relevant.
It is an impenetrable mystery to me why this video has a star average of 2.6 (though I think it rocks), and this one is running at 3.5 (though I think it's one of the dumbest pieces of crap I've ever put out). Video fidelity can't be worth THAT much....
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I see the star system as a 'yes' or 'no' in regards to what types of vids to upload here. If a vid gets an average of 3.5 or higher then I take it enough people like it for me to use the local hosting. If a vid gets under a 3.5 it had better either be a dbz vid or a multi-anime vid (usually those get lower star scores regardless of the quality - at least when it comes to my vids - even the new and better edited ones rank about the same as my first ones). If it's under a 3 then I probably did something really dumb when I made it and shouldn't have uploaded it - I keep that in mind for next time. And if it's a good vid that gets below a 3 then it's probably an anime no one cares about (or knows about) so there wasn't much point taking up the server space for the vid. After all, if no one wants to watch it, I have no reason to share it - the star scores tell me this.
But I still take things into consideration. I can usually guess where a vid will rank (after a few hundred stars) so anything that I think would get below a 3 I wouldn't upload. Since I'm taking up a local space, I need to be selective about it. And if only 3 or 5 people want to watch the vid, then it's better to just send it via aim or to not register it. The only exceptions are when I'm using an anime for a vid that I know a lot of people will enjoy and a lot of people will hate regardless of the editing/story/quality - like dbz, and multi anime vids of the shonen ai or humor persuasion (since multi-anime vids tend to be downloaded a *lot* and shonen ai vids are only liked by a select group - meaning those who download it and dislike the genre are predisposed to dislike the video and no amount of warnings seem to be enough to disuade them from downloading).
So...star scale doesn't matter in how much I like a vid, or how good I think a video is. It just tells me whether or not I should have uploaded the vid. As far as I'm concerned a 3.6 star average means more than half the viewers like what they see - so I have a reason to share with them. And that's what the local server is for - to share videos you've listed if you think others might want to see them.
But I still take things into consideration. I can usually guess where a vid will rank (after a few hundred stars) so anything that I think would get below a 3 I wouldn't upload. Since I'm taking up a local space, I need to be selective about it. And if only 3 or 5 people want to watch the vid, then it's better to just send it via aim or to not register it. The only exceptions are when I'm using an anime for a vid that I know a lot of people will enjoy and a lot of people will hate regardless of the editing/story/quality - like dbz, and multi anime vids of the shonen ai or humor persuasion (since multi-anime vids tend to be downloaded a *lot* and shonen ai vids are only liked by a select group - meaning those who download it and dislike the genre are predisposed to dislike the video and no amount of warnings seem to be enough to disuade them from downloading).
So...star scale doesn't matter in how much I like a vid, or how good I think a video is. It just tells me whether or not I should have uploaded the vid. As far as I'm concerned a 3.6 star average means more than half the viewers like what they see - so I have a reason to share with them. And that's what the local server is for - to share videos you've listed if you think others might want to see them.
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So should this not have been uploaded?Arigatomyna wrote:If a vid gets an average of 3.5 or higher then I take it enough people like it for me to use the local hosting.

I don't really see star scale as anything much. There isn't enough variety in scores for it to serve any good purpose, so I usually ignore.
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.........kinda but not. Although I must admit that with time the ratings do mostly reflect the effort I put into the vids.
In giving, I don't take them too seriously, apparently. At least I'm yet to give lower than a 3

In giving, I don't take them too seriously, apparently. At least I'm yet to give lower than a 3

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