egg wrote:As long as we are talking about crazy ideas, how about not having users giving distinct votes at all. The user will indicate a general preference, (Hate it, dislike it, ok, like it, love it (or whatever)). Then system asks them if they liked it more or less than other things they watched in the same category. Then the system creates the user's votes in whatever distribution you like.
The
not giving distinct votes-idea, sounds kind of like what epoximator suggested, by giving you choices to place an anime
> Narutaru, or
< Naruto and such. Since I criticized that, let me do that with yours as well
It seems like you have to vote in several 'steps', so your voting interface would change a couple of times. First you get a 'General Preference' (
hate/like/love/etc), then a 'Specific Preference'. I suppose the latter would be a list of titles within a specific range they can choose from. This comparison (
I think it would be on a similar level as title x rather than title y) will determine what kind of vote it gets. How do you plan these votes? Since you can only 'compare' them on a 'hate/like/love'-level, you will probably be seperating them in ranges between i.e. a 7 and 8 for 'like' with a more finegrained vote without actually seeing it. Is this how you meant it?
If not, I can`t see anything else but always-changing votes whenever one casts a new vote, which has to be related to other titles that person voted for. Kind of like using referencepointers between shows in order to determine how they are linked to each other in terms of voting.
Not to mention it`ll get pretty hard to determine an average rating of a show for all users.
How exactly would you determine the 'category', btw? Based on the genre, listed on the AniDB site?
@DerIdiot Chii`s pretty much limited to anything else but the static 1-10 range after all. The only way you can actually keep using Chii is by having the votes directly translated (if necessary) to the statuc 1-10 range the rest of the db uses. I already noticed that, so I restricted my previous suggestions to Chii-friendly ones
@PetriW Leaving those spots open with only the last one telling you 'Average', there will be a lot of questions since it doesn`t seem logical. Or rather, it looks like a bug if you don`t know 'average' would be the max.
Another suggestions, to get back to the label-discussion we had before:
- How about implementing a preference-option for
disabling/enabling labels after we revised them?
- How about disabling the numbers and going only with (revised/neutral) labels instead? Everyone can then interpret the labels as they want. Of course they correspond with numbers on the back-end, but they don`t get 'pressured' into believing i.e. 7 = good, but casting a vote 'good' for an anime. It doesn`t care what kind of number is behind it then, as long as the people can relate to the label next to it.
And I`m curious to hear what EXP and epox think of PetriW`s original 'silly idea' I took apart
here. Is that even feasible?