myanimelist top ranking system is useless so why not remove it?

I don't think the site is gonna get rid of its aggregates just because some people don't like it or don't care about it.

@tchitchouan for sure but just a hypothetical question considering how i see this as the major comment on every ranking or top scores discussion on the forums

also it gives myanimelist a bad reputation too in the long run if their system sucks so bad like unreliable or fake news

And who's problem is that supposed to be? And do you even realize how stupid this suggestion is? It's a different story if a lot of people want to bitch about some dogshit being the greatest thing in existence, probably because that means their dick is big or something. The point is to give everyone the option.

@deg Metacritic and other media aggregators also suffer from the same issue but that's just how the mathematical formula parts to wholes works, there is no other way around, now whether to follow it or trust it is up to personal choice and preference since it can be manipulated by recency bias and score bombing. I guess the decision is up to the site admins and whatever they feel like doing to it.

@Captain-577 i dont see it as a problem im just saying an observation i see here for years

whats stupid is the endless controversy around the top rankings and people keep repeating the same "myanimelist scores do not matter but only my personal scores matter more"

@deg
I too get annoyed by the bs but that's not a management problem. The basic idea is to present an average score based on what a group of people have rated. Ofcourse there are ways to game the system and these numbers don't really mean much. But that doesn't mean the basic system should be rid of.

It's not useless, when people say that it's because they just found out that a highly rated anime doesn't have a 100% chance to be good for them.

And that's exactly the problem: the top ranking represents the general consensus, not how much YOU will like those anime; by definition most people are part of the majority, but if you aren't good for you: it would be weird if you ALWAYS agreed with the majority.

Guys I am scared of flying so I never travel by plane

Can we just remove the sky? I don't need it

@YordaTrico the sky is not man made but the mal ranking system is man made so it can be improve or get remove

If we changed it so your favourite anime were top would that be acceptable?

@YordaTrico i do not care personally

again this is just an observation i have over the many years im here and what i think about this problem

I don't really pay attention on Top Anime, but I look up on Top Upcoming, Most Favorited and Most Popular but I would prefer if Most Popular was sorted only by number of "complete".

Top Anime could stay but it should get rules like ex.anime must have a certain number of members with "completed" or "watching" episodes to be shown in ranking.

@LittleStar there is top favorited too and i tend to like that ranking more here https://myanimelist.net/topanime.php?type=favorite

-Ratings aren't useless
-Obsessing over rating is useless

@deg, most favorite is good too... ❤️
most users can have only 10 anime on their favorite list, so I think people choose some really *special* ones for their favs.
Not always there are big hits, but got something that people really like to add them on their favorite list.

Looks like those people can't stand to see a ranking that's not in their favor.
MAL ranking will keep pissing them off no matter how it turns out anyway, so deal with it.


For example?

Because the silent majority keeps paying attention to scores, regardless of loud minorities ranting about them.

How about we put the people who are so easily triggered by numbers somewhere else



Reddit for instance

@Zarutaku ok that may well be the case too but isnt the mal ranking system unreliable or more wrong than other ranking sites?

Why would that be the case? MAL is the largest anime ranking site with the most users, and more users result in more reliable scores.

@Captain-577 if they do not want to remove it then at least myanimelist should improve it like how they made the anti vote brigading system after the score raids for interspecies reviewers years ago

for example the suggestion to do franchise grouping and average the scores of all anime of a franchise has been suggested for years here but myanimelist refuse to implement it

@Zarutaku imdb has more users for example right? and their ranking system seems have more quality control?