Star ratings

[Smashed]

What's with the star ratings on manga? It's never anywhere near close to an average of what everyone rate it, what you'd assume it'd be. Baka updates has a weird way of weighing their average but I have seen examples here that would be impossible to generate even with that (a series having nothing but 1 star ratings archiving a 7.9 overall).
To add to that the lowest score I've ever seen something get here is a 6.5 and the highest a 9.3, this squashes everything down into a 2.8 star range instead of the advertised 10 star range and that's misleading at best. I get not using the top end of the scale because nothing is perfect but why are you manipulating the statistics to avoid giving anything a "fine" or less rating?

 

[Manko-sensei]

I told them way back in the day to just have ratings of 1-2, maybe 1-3 but I was overruled! smh

To be honest, that'd be better when talking about manga or otaku things in general, just "yes", "no", "maybe". If I were to rate things seriously, I'd not rate them at all, but I use my biased natural 10 to counter-rate natural 1s.