History Main / BrokeTheRatingscale

* A new matchmaking app named ''Fanfic/SoulmateSurvey'' takes the world of ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' by storm. Unlike many other dating apps, this one has phenomenal, long-lasting success for pairing up couples. Of course, it’s supposed to be impossible for two people to match each other at higher than 85%. But when Marinette and Adrien sign up, they are matched with one another...at 100%.

* ''Creator/JamesRolfe'' attracted some minor backlash from fans of ''Film/Ghostbusters2016'' when he, an avid and vocal fan of the Ghostbusters franchise, issued his "no review" and simply refused to watch or support it, and by extension and in the interest of fairity, refused to give it a rating. His "review" of it instead consists of him matter-of-factly explaining how people should "rate" it by voting with their wallets, admitting he's too biased and attached to the original films to give it a fair rating as he felt it would taint his memories of the original films, and simply criticising the trailers for their jokes and special effects and the title itself for simply using the name of the original film instead of having a subtitle as if it's trying to replace the original.

* Creator/RogerEbert chose to remove the film ''Film/{{Shoah}}'' from his list of candidates for the top ten films of 1985 (in its place appeared ''Literature/TheColorPurple''). He felt it deserved higher accolades.

* ''The UsefulNotes/{{Boston}} Globe'' gave ''Film/TheHumanCentipede II'' no stars out of five. As did ''[[UsefulNotes/BritishNewspapers The Daily Mail]]''. And, as noted above, Roger Ebert.

** In [[https://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/the-human-centipede-2010 his review]] of ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'', which he disclaimed as not being "so much a review as a public service announcement," he was more explicit in his refusal, as put by the page quote.

* On ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall,'' Linkara has a video of "Top 15 Comics I'll Never Review." He has various reasons--some viewer suggestions he actually likes, he won't review porn, etc.--but some, like ''ComicBook/OneMoreDay,'' fall into the category of rage-inducingly bad. [[spoiler: He eventually did it anyway.]]

** And then, when reviewing the ''Tasha's'' Cleric subclasses, they actually ''did'' end up retroactively downgrading some of the other subclasses thanks to the Peace and ([[GameBreaker especially]])Twilight Domain.

* Music reviewer Creator/MarkPrindle awarded Music/{{Madonna}}'s much-maligned album Music/AmericanLife his first and ''only ever'' [[http://markprindle.com/madonnaa.htm#american zero out of ten]], with a specially-themed ratings graphic for it to boot, on the basis that aside from being musically awful (to the point that he specifically mentions he rated Music/MetalMachineMusic higher than it), Madonna's self-pitying "first world problems"-style lyrics were downright intolerable. Prindle directly says at one point (in ''very'' sanitised terms) that you could tell him every racist and homophobic joke going and he'd still find it less offensive than one of the richest and most famous people in the world shrieking about how awful their life is.

* Music/JohnnyGuitarWatson's 1954 instrumental "Space Guitar" was so out-there for its time that Billboard could only rate it a "??" out of 100.

* On ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall,'' Linkara lists the "Top 15 Worst Comics I've Ever Reviewed." However, before he begins, he notes that ''ComicBook/HolyTerror,'' of course, is the worst comic he's reviewed, so he's taking that off the list just so that the #1 spot will be a surprise. Technically, this makes the list "Top 15 Worst Comics I've Ever Reviewed, Other than ''Holy Terror,''" but [[OverlyLongTitle that wasn't as catchy]].

** ''Film/VampiresSuck'' in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120110051217/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_o4d6tdtM&gl=US&hl=en this review]]. Spill's video reviews are usually 4–5 minutes long and have the profanity spoken by the reviewers censored. The review, including intro and outro, is only ''44 seconds long'', consisting only of a clip from the film, which then cuts to a disgusted Korey staring blankly at the camera for several seconds before issuing his “Fuck You” rating, which this time goes ''uncensored''.

** ''Film/VampiresSuck'' in [[https://web.archive.org/web/20120110051217/https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX_o4d6tdtM&gl=US&hl=en this review]]. Spill's video reviews are usually 4–5 minutes long and have the profanity spoken by the reviewers censored. The review is only ''44 seconds long'', consisting only of a clip from the film, which then cuts to a disgusted Korey staring blankly at the camera for several seconds before issuing his “Fuck You” rating, which this time goes ''uncensored''.

-->-- '''Creator/RogerEbert''', about ''Film/TheHumanCentipede'', demonstrating this trope's LogicalExtreme.

** ''LightNovel/TheLegendOfTheLegendaryHeroes'' got a bored face.

** ''LightNovel/MayoChiki'' got a "blergh".

** ''LightNovel/ListenToMeGirlsIAmYourFather'' was rated thusly:

* WebVideo/JesuOtaku usually gives out unusual review scores (see below), but when reviewing ''Anime/MasterOfMartialHearts'', he only gave it “one greasy burger out of four” “because frankly, I don’t have a lower score.”

* Present in snakesonasora’s famous sporking of the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' badfic [[http://snakesonasora.livejournal.com/2619.html#cutid1 “Naga Eyes”]]. The rating scale (sometimes more a warning scale) is typically 1 to 5 [[TheGoomba Shadows]]. For particularly terrible fics, there exists a rare rating of [[BigBad Ansem]], which includes everything from 5 Shadows plus extra-high doses of WTF-ery. “Naga Eyes” earned an Ansem, but with this addition attached:

* In ''Fanfic/TotalLadyDramaIsland'', after an experimental food substitute causes every female contestant to undergo various degrees of [[ClothingDamage clothes destroying]] BreastExpansion the show's ratings drop to zero. Not because everybody simultaneously chose to stop watching, but because the incident caused viewership to spike so high that the Nielsen servers literally exploded.

** They gave ''Meow The Jewels'', the joke remix album of ''[[Music/ElP Run The Jewels 2]]'', a cat emoji with heart-shaped WingdingEyes, likely meant as a positive rating.

* Although ''Website/TheVideoGameCritic'' typically grades on a standard A to F scale, he will occasionally give a game an ‘NA’ (ostensibly for ‘Not Applicable’.) This is typically for one of two reasons: Either the game is simply an enhanced remake of another one, or it’s meant for preschoolers and thus it would be slightly unfair for him to give it a grade.

* LetsPlay/Skawo: When rating green stars, and all of battle belts green stars where in very similar uninspired places, the first two got a 0 stars/[[Videogame/SuperMarioOdyssey Odyssey]] [[TakeThat Moon]] rating, the third star gets a rating of negative 5 stars/Indescribable

* Clint's Reptiles [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MQ_P9sDKa7I considered]] the king cobra to be a 0/5 in Handleability, the category determining how much you can play with a pet. It shouldn't take much explaining as to why, but the fact that he considered other poisonous snakes like the gaboon viper or rattlesnake, or even large predators like the American alligator, to be a 1/5, expresses just how dangerous the cobra is.

* Internet movie reviewer Creator/JeremyJahns normally rates movies with a descriptive statement, ranging from "Awesometacular!" (the best) and "It's a good time, [[INeedAFreakingDrink no alcohol required]]" (third best) to "Dogshit!" (the worst). He gave ''Film/TheSmurfs2'' "Smurfshit!" He also gave ''The Literature/{{Twilight}} Saga: Breaking Dawn Part 1'' and ''Film/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' a "Black screen of nothing" rating.

* On ''WebVideo/TheBookWasBetter,'' KrimsonRogue gave both ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' and ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'' a Fuck You!/5, because a 1/5 was too much.

** ''Literature/OverLord'' got a "YOU'RE IN THE GAME!!" rating, pointing out how tired the "trapped in video game world" plot is.

* Zac Bertschy refused to rate the anime adaptation of ''Manga/BunnyDrop'' (the space where the rating would go reads "BUT WHAT ABOUT THE ENDING", somewhat crossing over with a Meaningless Value rating), as Zac couldn't get over the creepiness of the original source material's ending where [[spoiler:the adoptive father/daughter duo marry each other]], but still held out hope that the anime would end differently, as he thought the story was enjoyable up until that point.

** For his [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfT-xwo1f4Y review of several Twinkies recipes]], he instead decides to simply rank them in a top-4 list - which ends up ranking the Twinkie wiener sandwich as #85 out of 4 because it was ''so'' bad, and then disqualifies the #2 recipe (the Twinkie milkshake) because he felt the Twinkie was too incidental to the recipe and could be swapped out for anything else sugary without noticeably changing the final result.

* In WebVideo/ScottTheWoz's video covering E3 1995, the same video that introduced his five knee-slap scale (a standard for his videos covering the various E3 conferences, keeping this from being a Meaningless Comparison), [[MicDrop Sony's "$299" moment]][[labelnote:Explanation:]]the moment where Sega had announced the UsefulNotes/SegaSaturn was available in retailers across America ''right then'', rather than in four months as originally announced, for $399; Sony simply announced afterwards that the UsefulNotes/PlayStation would launch for a hundred dollars less caused Scott to slap his knee at such a rapid and continuous rate that he was visibly scarred and bloody, going up to fourteen knee-slaps before the video cut away from Scott slapping his knee.
* [=JarekTheGamingDragon=]'s "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eaLPGuWzhO4 Top 7 FPS Pistols Of All Time]]", after the honorable mentions before the #1 spot, had to take a moment to explain that he was taking the ''VideoGame/HaloCombatEvolved'' pistol and tossing it out of consideration entirely to give it its own "God" rank, because it's just ''so'' good that there was no other way to include it while being even remotely fair to any other pistol from any other FPS; without it in the regular consideration, the top slot went to ''VideoGame/KillingFloor2''[='=]s dual Desert Eagles. The fan poll on his Discord server included it normally and, under the (ultimately correct) assumption that it would win anyway, he asked the viewers to vote for two pistols rather than just one, essentially "really" asking to vote for their second-place choice, which ended up being the ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' Python (the only surprise being that the ''Halo'' pistol didn't beat it by anywhere near as wide a margin as Jarek was expecting).

* Inverted by WebVideo/JesuOtaku. He normally scores things with some sort of strange unit out of 4 (e.g. ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'' got "three [[PullingThemselvesTogether and a half]] [[{{Fingore}} de-fingerings]]" and ''Anime/PrincessTutu'' got "four characters who [[ScrewDestiny just won't do what they're told]]"), but ''Anime/NowAndThenHereAndThere'' was so depressing he couldn't bring himself to make fun of it and just used stars.

** ''LightNovel/AsuraCryin'' got an emoticon of an angry smiley head banging itself against a wall... out of 5. The middle of the preview is adorned with a picture of a bunny and an invitation to move along.

** ''LightNovel/StudentCouncilsDiscretion'' got a "it doesn't matter". The review consisted entirely of a picture of a bucket of fish as a metaphor for the show, and another of seals as a metaphor for the intended audience.

** ''LightNovel/InfiniteStratos'' got a rating of “quiet I am trying to nap here”, a preview that cut off into ZZZZZZZZ halfway through, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTI7cmwwuC0 a video of a cute kitten]] as a better alternative for something to watch.

** ''LightNovel/{{R15}}'' got a GIF of a smiley head holding a gun to itself.

** ''LightNovel/HighSchoolDXD'' got a "boobs".

** ''LightNovel/OverLord'' got a "YOU'RE IN THE GAME!!" rating, pointing out how tired the "trapped in video game world" plot is.

* WebVideo/{{Brutalmoose}}, in his "Brutalfoods" [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=88l41TVd6wQ review of Lunchables pizza]], assigns "Ian Points" to the various boxes. For the first meal (all-cheese pizzas) he grants it 10 points for the pizzas themselves, 8 for the Capri-Sun drink, and 15 for the Air Head dessert... then takes away 100 for the incredibly terrible comic that came with it, giving it a final score of -67. For the second (pepperoni and cheese) he grants 2 for the pizza, 9 for the Capri-Sun and 10 for the Crunch bar, then takes away ''500'' for another comic that is not only terrible, but is in fact the ''exact same'' one as the first, leaving it at -479. The third (deep-dish) gets 5 for the pizza, 3 for the Cheez-Its, 7 for the fruit roll-up, 1 for the Kool-Aid mix, 20 for the water bottle the Kool-Aid goes into... and then takes away '''''20,000''''' because he decided to put at least a bit of all the other ingredients into the Kool-Aid and drink it all at once, to which he jokes "they didn't tell me that I had to do this, but [[NeverMyFault it's still their fault somehow]]" and leaving it with -19,964 points. By the time of the fourth (a "healthier" organic version) he's crossing over into the Meaningless Value area, giving it no Ian Points whatsoever and, when summing up the scores at the end, labeling it as simply "BAD".

** One week, Katya and Violet Chachki are tasked with reviewing [[Music/TaylorSwift Taylor Swift's]] runway looks, after openly admitting there are not big Taylor Swift fans. After tearing into ''many'' of her looks in a row, they decided to break the tradition of giving a "Top Toot of the Week" to the look they most like, and instead reward a "Top ''Boot'' of the Week" to the look they hated most.
* In WebVideo/ScottTheWoz's video covering E3 1995, the same video that introduced his five knee-slap scale (a standard for his videos covering the various E3 conferences, keeping this from being a Meaningless Comparison), [[MicDrop Sony's "$299" moment]] caused Scott to slap his knee at such a rapid and continuous rate that he was visibly scarred and bloody, going up to fourteen knee-slaps before the video cut away from Scott slapping his knee.

* WebVideo/Chadtronic has a series dubbed ''Cursed Commercials'' where he rates how “cursed” certain television ads are. Some of the ratings that he gives to the commercials reflect the ads themselves.

* ''Fanfic/CupcakesSergeantSprinkles'': Popular fanblog Blog/EquestriaDaily gave the fic a "[[PrecisionFStrike GRIMDARK AS FUCK]]" tag, as opposed to usual {{dark fic}}s which usually only get a "Dark" or a "Grimdark" tag. Similary, the [[{{Doorstopper}} epic-length]] ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'' got the tag '''''Legendary'''''.

!!Meaningless Value ("[[PrecisionFStrike Up Yours]] out of 10.")

* WebVideo/AngryJoe's review of ''VideoGame/CallOfDutyAdvancedWarfare'' is both this and still within bounds. He wishes he could give the game Creator/KevinSpacey out of 10 before lamenting that that isn't a score on his scale and just giving it a [[SoOkayItsAverage 6/10]]