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Well, idk about the first one, but the second one is a well known fact based on the videos in the "worst rated" category.
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^^ For the first one, right next to the rating scale, it says, "How does it match the trope?". For the second one, look at a lot of video examples from, say, My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic.
For every low there is a high.
Do ratings have any consequences at all? It's not like we could prevent the video from launching like with TLP.
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Not technically, but they do skew how many people will watch it. Unless you want to dig through the several pages of videos uploaded chronologically... I'm sure a lot of people probably just want to visit the top rated page. And a video can be tanked hard by one single less-than-perfect rating. If anything, though, it's unrated videos that are hit the worst since they're way harder to find.
Besides, it's a perception thing. People are just inherently more likely to find something "good" if it's better rated. It's part of why people use the "like" button on ATT, even though it's irrelevant. And why people do just continue to throw hats at already launch-worthy drafts, while bombs have the opposite impact of attracting more hate.
Edited by WarJay77 on Apr 14th 2024 at 11:05:01 AM
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Seems to me like we'd need video view counters rather than ratings.
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I mean, to be fair, bad votes had been useful in the past for weeding out vids that needed to be removed. They're just not that useful anymore.
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Okay, so videos have built-in rating scales for how they match their tropes: five stars means it's a dead-ringer, four stars means it's an imperfect example but still an example, three stars means it's a borderline example, two stars means it's misuse but still related, and one star means it's blatant misuse.
However, I have noticed problems with this:
- People tend to maliciously give one-star ratings to videos from works they dislike. Notably, many videos from kid shows have ratings below four even if they match the trope perfectly. Moreover, we cannot report them for doing this the way we report other instances of Complaining About Shows You Don't Like, since there's no way of telling who rated the videos.
- The whole "Secondary Tropes" thing muddies the waters. If, hypothetically, a video was listed under both Trope A and Trope B, it might be a perfect example of Trope A, but only a borderline example of Trope B, and yet there's only one rating scale.
For every low there is a high.