Floki:
Except they are not just overvalued. How can ratings be accurate if noone is using the scale properly or at least the same way. Check my post to understand how this is a big issue (more specifically on MDL).
If you have people that starts rating from 6-7 (stating the content is terrible), then you end up with inaccurate ratings that do not reflect the real opinion of these people. Many of them will tell you they feel bad rating anything under 6, so they overrate on purpose which is the same as being inaccurate.
None of that invalidates my post. It just reinforces that ratings are utterly subjective, always. There can never be any rules on "accurate" ratings, because whatever feels right for an individual IS right for that individual. That's why it's pointless to expect and/or hope for some mythical and utterly unachievable "accurate" rating system. MDL ratings are not school exams with a standardised marking system.
Guess their rating of the drama for something they hated that much (their words)... a 7 out of 10.
You got this wrong...7/10 is good rating elsewhere but not in MDL. People will consider anything below 8.5/10 in here as underrated already...LoL As ridiculous as it sounds, it is justified and acceptable to not liking a drama but gave it 7/10 in MDL.
In real world case this is like passing mark for national level exams. Lets say passing for Calculus could be as low as 30/100, but English could be 50/100, and some other easier subject can be as high as 70/100. Now change calculus, english and that other subject to RottenTomatoes, IMDB, MDL.
When I joined MDL it was already apparent that this Site rated everything higher. It would be otherwise distorted the rating if you want to use IMDB standard in here. Guess those Kdrama with Oppa will get unreasonably high ratings but your non-Oppa drama you objectively rated got poor rating because you want to be as accurate as IMDB....haha
My point is numbers in rating are not definite. To you 7/10 is high but obviously that's not the case in MDL. Trust me anyone would afraid to start a drama if its rating is below 7/10.
There's no point in changing things now as it's always been like that since the very beginning. It's more like unspoken rule in MDL already.
I totally agree with @Burha as there's no such thing as "accurate" in rating. What we actually need is reliable rating that's good reflection of what to expect from a drama, be it 8/10 or 3/10. What would you expect from 8 and 3 is more important than whether 8 or 3 is the suitable number or not.
bilan:
I feel like recently, with more users on mdl, the ratings are not as accurate as they used to be and have a more bias outlook. I used to be able to clearly judge a show by it's rating but now a show ranking above 8.5 is no longer rare. Everything seems skewed.
Is it not possible to hide ratings until after a show has aired. It makes no sense for a show to be 9/10 when episode 1 came out a few hours ago.
The audience tends to like everything easily
TimiZero:
Yeah yeah yeah...i lost my critical thinking guys...
If this is your answer then I assume you have nothing interesting to add? Not a big fan of pity parties, this isn't about you, this is about "inaccurate ratings". I never implied you "lost" anything, I said nuance was important. There is a big difference between the two and this clearly wasn't supposed to be about you as an individual, so I am sorry if I offended you in way, but you misunderstood my point.
Edit: Since you edited your post to say that you were just joking, then I no longer need to apologize ;)
Passing just means it was validated based on success expectations, but a total of 30 points on 100 possible points, even if you pass the exam, is still a low score and should be considered as such.
That's basically the case for difficult subject and the percentage of the pass is decided from the distribution of the marks the students scored throughout the country. A pass is a pass no matter what the mark is. 30/100 for calculus for obvious reason is more difficult to achieve than 30/100 of english exams and therefore shouldn't be considered the same.
Yeah but I agree the analogy wasn't the best. But I just wanted to highlight the number itself is meaningless. In the case of MDL most people already aware of its higher rating. As someone in earlier post has mentioned it's safe to consider a minus 2 points of anything on MDL....if you want to compare it with standard scale of 10 ratings.
As it was mentioned before, some people give good ratings only based on their favorite actors/actresses or based on kiss scenes. Many many people fast forward the drama to whatever interest them. Are they allowed to do this? Absolutely. Is their review/rating as valuable as someone who would watch the whole thing the way it's supposed to be watched? I don't think so. And this is a completely different issue than the inacurrate rating, because this part is subjective and people are allowed to enjoy their content the way they want.
Yeah I don't agree with this group of people too. Some others easily rate a drama lower as well based on trivial and personal reasons (like moral value of character)...LOL Basically these are among the fangirls or boys and younger audiences. I believe there are many more people that make a reasonable rating in MDL. The problem is the "number" people chose for that rating itself, could be slightly higher than the normal one.
EDIT: After checking your profile I see you have your own "rating system". This means that people need to check your profile before they check your reviews/ratings to understand why you rate something instead of referring to standards or universal systems. This will make it near impossible for us to agree on this specific topic, because you are already biased to the point where you chose to do your own thing instead of improving/chaning the disfunctional one..
Actually, I saw many MDL users have their own ratings when I first joined this site. So that's why I came up with mine and tried to adhere with it as much as possible.
You must be wondering why I don't have anything lower than 5 in my list. That's because I chose my drama and I avoid what I hate. I don't list down what I watched on TV (basically the Korean and Chinese)....which I rarely finish and able to watch fully without accidentally missed some of the episodes.
I previously used to rated things I dropped as 3 or 4. But later I removed the rating as I mostly drop anything based on my personal value. So that lower rating was actually not objective but was the hate i have towards that trivial personal reason.
Of course there is a point in improving things. Are you saying that we shouldn't improve just because they have been messed up for a while?
This is by itself is a subjective statement. I can agree and disagree at the same time...lol
So how do you decide, based on a rating alone, if you should watch something between 7 and 8? That's the issue here, you can't possibly decide based on that alone because of the margin of error/people you don't trust to rate/whatever.
I think @Burha has answered this indirectly.
MDL scores are the averages of many SUBJECTIVE scores, there is nothing remotely OBJECTIVE about them, nor was there ever meant to be.burhaa aadmi:
There are people rate at the extreme. The 1/10 and 10/10.
There are people like me who adjust the rating by increasing the value.
There are people who rate normally but still generous in their ratings.
There are people who utilize the full scale.
There are people rate based on emotion.
There are people who rate objectively like they are the judges of Academy Award...LOL
At the end of the day the scores are the average of the above. But for MDL the scores are slightly inflated so you need to know that before read the ratings. Like I said anything below 7 needs further "investigation" if you want to decide on a drama.
