Ane no Tomodachi

[LupusVir]

you seem to be incapable of math.
6/10 is above the half.
in a rating system 3-4 is an average percentage.
this makes 6 above average.
not high, yet also not too low.
that implies that 7 "is for trash", is actually a false argument.
I don't know in what kind of world your statement makes any sense. well, aside personal opinions.

Hey man, don't gotta come at me about it. I'm just telling you how it actually is. Fact is, as far as everyone else is concerned, when you give a rating less than 8, you are stating that you think it's average at best, maybe read it if you have nothing else to read. 6? Trash that they shouldn't even touch.

Again, I'm talking about how things are, not how they'd ideally be. And you could just ignore this and do it how you think it should be, but... the rating system is inherently something that you use collaboratively with others. Everyone's input is considered, the point is for others to see it. So how other people will interpret your rating is the most important thing. If you give low ratings like 6 or 7 to series that you enjoy, you are doing them a disservice.

Refer to what this guy is saying.

Wellllllll… you're both sort of correct.

On the one hand, per the legend that MD offers for the ratings, 5/10 is for things that you find average (ie anything that leaves you completely indifferent), and anything above that is for things you find better than indifferent.

On the other hand, fact is and remains that the median rating across the entirety of the site is around 7.5/10. In other words, any manga rated less than ~7/10 is in the bottom half of ratings, and anything below 5.5 is in the bottom 1%.

I think this is mainly because, most of the time, when a title won't appeal to a specific user, the description is enough to make that known; thus, most below-fives instead turn to no-votes, artificially inflating the ratings.

 

[Random_Passer-by]

I get the desire to inflate the ratings of manga you like, but disagree on principle.
My own guidelines are more-or-less as follows:
8/10: I like this enough to recommend it.
7/10: I like this, but not enough to recommend it. Might even be dropped in a few rare cases.
6/10: Aggressively fine. Might drop or read, depending on whether I like the concept.
5/10: Causes zero emotional reaction in me. Always dropped.
4/10: Offensively bland, or demonstrably bad.
…and anything below that depends on how angry it makes me.

Oh, and also! There's another reason why ratings appear inflated: There's a selection process going on, wherein most really trash manga don't even get published in the first place. Anything that's paid for by a publisher, is because the publisher saw promise in it.

And then you have the user-created stuff… which is, for entirely unsurprising reasons, greatly overrepresented amongst MD's lowest-rated manga.

 

[Baddtraxx]

ok cry about it

 

[LupusVir]

I get the desire to inflate the ratings of manga you like, but disagree on principle.
My own guidelines are more-or-less as follows:
8/10: I like this enough to recommend it.
7/10: I like this, but not enough to recommend it. Might even be dropped in a few rare cases.
6/10: Aggressively fine. Might drop or read, depending on whether I like the concept.
5/10: Causes zero emotional reaction in me. Always dropped.
4/10: Offensively bland, or demonstrably bad.
…and anything below that depends on how angry it makes me.

Oh, and also! There's another reason why ratings appear inflated: There's a selection process going on, wherein most really trash manga don't even get published in the first place. Anything that's paid for by a publisher, is because the publisher saw promise in it.

And then you have the user-created stuff… which is, for entirely unsurprising reasons, greatly overrepresented amongst MD's lowest-rated manga.

That pretty much matches with my scale. I hardly ever give 9s or 10s to anything. Almost nothing deserves it.

ok cry about it

Loser-tier reply

 

[Baddtraxx]

fine I double down in it. making it a 6 now. remember you caused it

 

[bane_ecf]

It’s probably because us humans are kinda dumb and instead of doing 5/10 for an average show we just default to 7/10 as average because we are stupid

Probably because we were conditioned in school that C (70-79%) was "average".

 

[Xakorik]

Where are the first 2 chapters?

 

[Random_Passer-by]

Where are the first 2 chapters?

Please check the “Related” tag.
And then report it so they can get merged, because the situation is getting frankly ridiculous.

 

[Krisnaaa]

Wonder if this series(in romance side) will be 107 development too ups. . . Or maybe stick with this pace, i hope not

 

[virginhunter]

Is the FMC a virgin in this manga?

 

[BullRhino34]

This manga originally hooked me with the unique art style, but the slow uploads of like 5 pages each, combined with the unnecessary addition of female competition (which is obviously just trope) really put a sour taste in my mouth. Considering dropping at this point.