1 star rating

[zDarkness]

Honestly it's so annoying how people give 1 star ratings for no reason...

Take solo leveling for example.
Ok..I get it you dont like it but is it true that the 1 star rating how much you dislike it?

That makes so many good comics stay with low rating which makes people stop reading them = translators giving up the comic...

 

[schlo]

well the reverse problem exists too, giving 10 's. If anything giving 1's is hardly a problem. Out of 29000+ rated manga, only 25 are even rated below a five - average, less then 130 total are rated below a six - fine. So about 29,000 are described as fine, good, very good, great or masterpiece.

 

[sterven]

To be fair the story is pretty much a one though. _{lol jk}

 

[justforthelulz]

What if people are rating Solo Leveling a '1' as a misguided show of solidarity? _/s

 

[sterven]

@justforthelulz

Spoiler

 

[dankdevice]

taste is completely subjective. someone's 10 is another person's 1

personally i disliked solo leveling. probably not enough to give it a 1, but it'd be sitting at a solid 3-4 if i cared enough to rate titles i was totally bored by

 

[taako-yaki]

I don't think they're giving the 1 star reviews for no reason, in their mind they had a reason to hate the manga. Everyone has different opinions on different things and this means some people will just hate something sometimes. Also there are so many high-rated mangas on here, and most people give out high ratings to a good chunk of what they read. So, I don't think leaving a bad review based on your personal thoughts on the manga will hurt anyone. At least, I've never seen someone give up a comic on here for bad ratings, usually they do it for time constraints, lack of scans, lack of readers etc.

 

[comedyxtragedy]

Eh, not much you can do considering people preference are vary. Tamarowa pretty much has harsh score because of the ecchi and scene despite have well written story.
I honestly prefer people don't give rating if they don't like something without a reason because it's really misleading of how the story maybe good. I prefer them give rating if the story end up bad or read at least 3 chapters before giving score. I personally only gives score after few chapters are out

 

[bakiomari]

I have yet to read a manga so appalling I'd give it a 1 star.

 

[Kendama]

Taste is so subjective that I go by "if I don't have anything positive to say, I don't say anything at all" when it comes to manga. That has led me into a binary attitude towards rating: I only rate something if I like it so much I want other people to read it, and then I give it a 10. Otherwise, I don't rate it at all. In other words, I only rate things I consider masterpieces. The rest, I don't care whether someone will read it or not, so the rating doesn't matter to me. I also choose what to read by synopsis and art, I don't look at the rate until I've made my decision to rate it or not.

 

[smugcatto]

It's just like a YouTube video. Even the most popular video with great content would still get dislikes.

 

[vinsegas]

Im more concerned about the 10s, personally. People rate 10 everything they like. I mean its fine you can rate 10 whatever you want, but for me 10 should be reserved only for masterpieces.
But oh well, peoples preferences varies, a 7 for me can be a 10 for you. Nothing can be done on inflated scores.

 

[Afiaki]

In my opinion, low ratings and averages are more impactful than the reverse. Who actually believes a series is great on high ratings alone? I'll see for myself, thank you very much. However, if the rating is low then the positive aspects have a shade on them. I like this but an abnormal amount of people don't... Is this not as good as I thought?

But that's just part and parcel for rating systems and groupthink.

 

[horsewithnoname]

Oh, and what about people that gave scores when there are only like 5 chapters in the manga uploaded? I argued with someone that way and he/she said "well that's a mangaka's job to make a story as interesting as possible and I just don't find it interesting, so the mangaka failed, thus deserve the 1 score I gave it". I know only rating manga once you finished it wholly is not always convenient, but maybe giving scores when the manga is still in its introductory phase is kind of stupid. I mean, what if you read the whole thing and find out that the whole story gets better? It happens you know!

Sorry for ranting. I'm still salty about it.

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

The real problem is in hentai mangas cause anything that's not someone's fetish is immidietely 1 starred. This is problematic cause there are good hentais and there are bad hentais, fetish considerations excluded, and the rating system on MD became unreliable cause people mass-1 star lolis and yaois.

 

[PantsMan]

The only value to ratings is for getting a new series you like with few votes briefly into the "Top Manga" section, where it will get exponentially more popular.