Concern over the rating system here, it's way too affiliated - Music

antihero36

you know, i've noticed something here. How come people rate so highly? I've noticed that 5-15 ratings are labelled to artists the individual has a grudge on. And 20-50 ratings are basically almost all skipped like they mean nothing. Then the 55-70 i've seen from here (reading from comments / feedback) means bad. Then everything after the 75 rating means I love it. Like 100 is a personal favorite, I get it. But most of the time it's all because of nostalgia. 95's are reserved for one song they didn't like, and it continues all the way down to 80.

tl;dr: Why is the good scale only represented from 80-100, and the bad is only 55-70, and the rest is basically ignored except for personal grudges (5-15)

when ratings should look more like:
1-3: bad
4-5: averag
6: good
7: great
8: amazing / best of year
9: solid / best of decade

your guys's thoughts?

antihero36

meant to say 55-65 bad, and 70-80 is about average.

videoheadcleaner

formerly Harkan

Gender: Male

Age: 40

South Australian school grades calculations

A: 85-100
B: 70-84
C: 55-69
D: 35-54
E: 0-34

antihero36

Quote:

South Australian school grades calculations

A: 85-100
B: 70-84
C: 55-69
D: 35-54
E: 0-34

http://i.imgur.com/1he2Jbi.png

just my thoughts.

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antihero36

I mean I just don't get why everything good is crammed towards the last numbers of the rating scale. Even in schools, why are they all 70+ when students are considered "average." Why is it implemented as such? It makes no sense. If we were looking at it logically, a five is half of 10. So that is the middle number. It should be average. It intensifies while it increases. But the other numbers, like 1-5 are completely ignored. It's irritating.

Trendall

Gender: Male

Reminds me of this xkcd - http://www.xkcd.com/1098/

Generally I like to listen to things a couple of times before I pin a rating on them. If I listen to an album for the first time and am unimpressed with it, I may never get round to listening to it again and won't ever end up rating it. So I'll only put a rating on things that I'm comfortable putting a rating on, I'll only feel comfortable putting a rating on something after having listened to it a couple of times, and I'm only likely to have listened to something a couple of times if I enjoyed it in the first place. So my ratings tend to be skewed more towards the higher end for that reason. Maybe other people are the same.

videoheadcleaner

formerly Harkan

Gender: Male

Age: 40

antihero36 wrote:

Quote:

South Australian school grades calculations

A: 85-100
B: 70-84
C: 55-69
D: 35-54
E: 0-34

http://i.imgur.com/1he2Jbi.png

just my thoughts.

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Interesting thoughts. I was being facetious (or Eggman).

My appreciation of music has expanded since being here and most of the music I listen to has merit somewhere in there. Yes, I could be mean and horrible and rate some albums at 5/100 but why? Even the worst album I heard doesn't deserve a 5. (FYI, The Subs' Decontrol is equal with The Best Of The Seekers for that.)

By your assumption of "What [I] Think Ratings Mean," 70/100 is terrible. This means (according to your assumption) that Easybeats, The - Friday On My Mind, Throbbing Gristle - 20 Jazz Funk Greats & System Planning Korporation - Information Overload Unit are all albums I despise. Not true. They are albums I don't always listen to, I don't consider great or I haven't given the time.

Don't assume you know what people think when they are rating.

19loveless91

mag. druž. inf

Trendall wrote:

Reminds me of this xkcd - http://www.xkcd.com/1098/

Generally I like to listen to things a couple of times before I pin a rating on them. If I listen to an album for the first time and am unimpressed with it, I may never get round to listening to it again and won't ever end up rating it. So I'll only put a rating on things that I'm comfortable putting a rating on, I'll only feel comfortable putting a rating on something after having listened to it a couple of times, and I'm only likely to have listened to something a couple of times if I enjoyed it in the first place. So my ratings tend to be skewed more towards the higher end for that reason. Maybe other people are the same.

That's defintiely one reason. Majority of albums that I listen enough to rate, I like - meaning I'll rate them with a 70 or higher. But I also seemingly can't hate any album at all, which means I can't see myself rating anything with a 0-20.

Precedent

My scale for albums:

0-9 = F, Horrendous, don't go near the album
10-19 = F, Horrendous, maybe a song that's alright though
20-29 = F, Awful, yet there may be one or two decent songs.
30-39 = F, Bad, listenable, but bad.
40-49 = F, Pretty bad, listenable, but usually every song is average at best.
50-59 = D, Below average
60-69 = C, Usually inconsistent/average
70-74 = B-, Good, but not great/Above average
75-79 = B, Great, but usually one or two songs holding it back. Track displacement is usually a factor
80-84 = B+, Great, Maybe one song that's not up to par, track displacement isn't apparent
85-89 = A-, Fantastic, Every song is good (or better)
90-94 = A, Fantastic, every song is great (or better)
95-100 = A+, Impeccable, usually a personal connection, and/or every song is fantastic.

Last edited by Precedent on 12/30/2013 23:40; edited 1 time in total

videoheadcleaner

formerly Harkan

Gender: Male

Age: 40

Further point:

Spreadsheet is colour-coded like your image. I guess my ratings on BEA are not overly accurate and equal to this. On my RYM page, they are.

eg.
SPK - Information Overload Unit

BEA Rating: 70/100
RYM Rating: 2.5/5 = 50/100
Colour-Code: Orange

So I am inconsistent. Oh well. This may change in the new year. Or not.