Question about personal view of Star Averages

[omegaevolution]

I care about star ratings for the first week or so that my video's out, then it usually settles down to between 3.5 and 3.7 and I don't care anymore.

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oh and so you see how tricky the star rating is
my first AMV has a star rating of 3.73 (which it fails in every possible aspect)
and my last AMV (the 12th one, my best IMO) has a star rating of 3.73

now what is wrong on that O.o?
better believe the comments in opinions and not just scores. Scores can always be tricky.

[Rapture**]

I care about star ratings for the first week or so that my video's out, then it usually settles down to between 3.5 and 3.7 and I don't care anymore.

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[DooKi`]

I do agree, shadowfox that it is selfish, but being FORCED to rate something is illogical. Whenever I look into a video I want to watch, sometimes I'll check the actual opinion ratings but what I really look for are posted opinions *the 2 that you can choose to show the public* That will give some insight. Most people are not very patient and forcing to star when they just want to watch more amvs, will result in people in not caring. especially when you already have 10 to star *which is my case most of the time -_-* people get to eager to continue they just dont care anymore *myself I star to what I think, not just randomly only because I like that "videos you'd like" search.*

Stars are carefree and nothing to really give you insight on what you did right or wrong, where as
Opinions *depending on who writes them* gives insight to your video.


Theres also the fact that sometimes I cant watch amvs because my computes being dumb or its to crappy. What am I supposed to rate if I couldnt of watched it?

[Falconone]

First times i liked the rating. But today i see how bad it is. My best video is not so good rated then a other. And i think it is really better. Now i can say, better is to get opinions that the really rating XD

[CorpseGoddess]

It's true, the stars at this point seem meaningless, at least for me on a personal level. I mean, my first amv---my first!---although not an apocalypse, is by no means the best one I've done and it's one of my highest rated. Now, maybe people were awarding me stars based on it being my first attempt, but in that case, that makes the star system both relative *and* subjective.

Personally, I think a "like/meh/didn't like" might be more descriptive.

[Serv0]

Because of the overly massive population of inexperienced reviewers out there, I tend to avoid the star rating all together because the system becomes biased and not justified.
An average video may gain a rating more than it actually deserves, or vice-versa, because of a mass who prefers a quick comment rather than a video opinion critique, which obviously takes more time.

Honest in truth, if I have something to say about a video that I think is good, I'll leave them an opinion, justifying there star as a 4 or 5. Otherwise if the video was bad, I'll just leave them with a 1 or a 2. No opinion, probably meant I didn't care for it, or care for the novelity of the editor.

[Sukunai]

A one star to me = your amv sucked.

2 = poor quality, needs a lot of work

3 = average, likely ok work I probably enjoyed it.

4 = great job, but I'm not going to be watching it obsessively.

And 5 to me means damn that was fricking awesome, and you can assume I will play it over and over and over till my wife gets pissed off over it hehe.

I have wished I could go lower than 1 a few times, and wished I could go higher than 5 occasionally. I usually will dump a handful of 5 in the comment to make sure the person knows I thought it was great.