What is your rating curve?

[Pavement415]

This has probably been done before, though I am curious: what do BEA ratings mean for you (when assigning ratings, not reading them)? Eg. is a 70/100 a 'good' album; is an 100/100 a score you give to every album you 'like' or only merited by the best ever, can you enjoy an album you personally gave 50/100, etc. I have been trying to become more accurate yet consistent with my rating habits. Right now my pattern seems to be: 70 = almost decent, 80 = good, 85 = really good, 90 = chart material, 95 = among the best, 100 = life changing. The fact that everyone has their own curve really maintains the ratings, as once I got used to the BEA total/avg curve, I found it so much easier to speculate how 'good' an album would be prior to hearing it.
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[SuedeSwede]

I use a 10-point rating scale and basically 10 is amazing, 9 is really great, 8 is very good, 7 is good, 6 is decent, 5 is mediocre and everything else is some form of dislike

Though it's not a fixed scale, I could have some 6s that are better than 7s tbh I'm not too picky about it
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[Patman360]

I deleted all my ratings about a year ago and I've rated hardly anything since then, never really had a curve though, I tended not to bother rating anything I disliked, hence my average being quite high (pretty sure it's still like that now with the small amount I've rated). So I guess to me, my BEA ratings mean next to nothing, my opinions constantly change in relation to my moods, just last week I probably would've rated 'Off The Wall' like 60-65, now a week later it's a solid 100 after numerous listens. Hope I answered this half decently...
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[Le_Samurai]

10: Masterpiece
9: Near Masterpiece
8: Great
7: Good
6: Above Average
5: Average to the supreme
4: mediocore
3: Bad
2: Very bad
1: If something is this bad, hopefully it's at least interestingly bad

Not the most robust scale. I try to keep 5 being average and I don't really understand those people who say like 6 or 7 is somehow average. There are plenty of records of I would rate at least a 7 that I saw i enjoy and wouldn't by any means call average.

[HoldenM]

For albums/songs...
100 - Perfect/near-perfect. No dead weight
95 - Excellent, but needs a little more time, and is a tiny bit rough around the edges
90 - Great, to say the least. Has, at most, a handful of songs that I don't love, or is just thoroughly solid, but falls short of being transcendent.
85 - Very good, and maybe even great at times, but not exactly special, and noteworthy at best. Has some major flaws, but I like it quite a bit anyway.
80 - Just a good, slightly better-than-average album. Maybe has some failings, but has enough to make up for it.
75 - Decent, but spotty, or frustrating.
70 - Average. Unmemorable, save for a few moments
65 - More good than bad, but has some big issues.
60 - Indifference.
55 or < - Probably don't like it. Might even hate it.

I never rate charts anything below an 85. Even if I hate every album on it, I don't think it's in particularly good taste to rate someone's taste poorly just because it's not identical to mine. An 85 means that I respect a chart, but I don't have any strong feelings. Anything higher means that I probably enjoy and admire the user's chart. I don't know. Rating charts is hard to do.
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[babyBlueSedan]

I base my ratings around the premise that anything greater than 50 is an album I like and anything less than 50 is an album I don't like. The only other loose rule is that anything collection worthy is a 75 or over, although 70s can make it too depending on the album. In general though:

100: Perfect - not every song has to be perfect as long as the experience is. Perfect is probably the wrong word but a 100 is an album I will enjoy regardless of mood.
95: Should probably be 100 but maybe has one song I don't like
90: Rest of the upper echelon
85 - 80: Favorites
75 - 70: Worth hearing again but not a favorite
65: Really liked it but not enough to need to here it again
60: Anything that isn't a 65 or 55
55: Barely liked it
50: Hardly any feelings about at all - in some ways this is the worst rating because it means the album inspired pure apathy
45: Barely disliked it
40 - 30: More dislike
25 - 20: Worse
15 - 10: Really bad. Never given less than a 10 and I don't think I ever will.

My average is a 72 so I guess that fits with the 75 rule, as albums I add to my collection are "above average."
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[revolver94]

i dont think about it at all, really. whatever feels right. i dont really give ratings below an 80 most of the time, seems shitty.
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[Satie]

10: perfect, top <1% of music
9: masterpiece, top 1% of music
8: excellent, top 10% of music
7: awesome
6: great
5: good
4: okay
3: bad
2: terrible
1: abysmal, bottom 1% of music

7 and above is stuff I'll likely listen to again and as such make up a smaller group, with 6s and 5s being the main plateau for most albums. i intentionally maintain 7s and aboves as the minority and base that rating comparatively against 5s and 6s. because i'm decent at picking out music that i'll like and not falling for hyped albums that i end up disliking, my curve usually stays top heavy in comparison with actually negative ratings, but 5s and 6s make up the vast majority

[Applerill]

With most of the mediums I rank....

5 Stars: 9%
4.5 Stars: 13%
4 Stars: 16%
3.5 Stars: 20%
3 Stars: 16%
2.5 Stars: 8%
2 Stars: 6%
1.5 Stars: 5%
1 Star: 3%
.5 Stars: 2%

Or something like that. I give a lot of high ratings proportionally, but that's why I sometimes have to give the stick to albums you guys like and I don't as much.

[Tap]

For me the rating I give is an attempt to quantify how much of a shit I give about the thing and so the lower it goes the less likely I am to care enough to think of a number.