Yes, but that's abuse of the opinions system, and you can complain to the moderators about it (in the Mod Drop Box board on the forum), and they'll usually remove the offending opinions.
Well, true, but my point is - even if people do it subtly ("I'd normally give an 8, but I'm giving a 7 'cause that's what you gave me") - that doesn't apply to people who don't make AMVs at all. Revenge opinions were mentioned several times on the forums, but, well, not a problem for me.
Yeah, I do get the definite impression that Phade's got a healthy appreciation for statistics... I mean, he did implement a Bayesian average system for calculating op scores for the Top 10% List and the Star Scale lists, to stop videos with only a few opinions from making it so far up the lists.
I know. And it fills my heart with joy. I could spend hours with the statistics on this site; you don't want to know how close I came to firing up SPSS-X over this. Except, you know, that'd be insanity.
I might do it anyway.
And if you donate, you can even get detailed Star Score stats for any video: # of scores given, average raw score, average Bayesian-adjusted score.
And you have just named the sole perk for donating for me. (I donate to support the site, but the extra search options - oh my god, they are addictive.)
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Well, true, but my point is - even if people do it subtly ("I'd normally give an 8, but I'm giving a 7 'cause that's what you gave me") - that doesn't apply to people who don't make AMVs at all. Revenge opinions were mentioned several times on the forums, but, well, not a problem for me.
Yeah, I do get the definite impression that Phade's got a healthy appreciation for statistics... I mean, he did implement a Bayesian average system for calculating op scores for the Top 10% List and the Star Scale lists, to stop videos with only a few opinions from making it so far up the lists.
I know. And it fills my heart with joy. I could spend hours with the statistics on this site; you don't want to know how close I came to firing up SPSS-X over this. Except, you know, that'd be insanity.
I might do it anyway.
And if you donate, you can even get detailed Star Score stats for any video: # of scores given, average raw score, average Bayesian-adjusted score.
And you have just named the sole perk for donating for me. (I donate to support the site, but the extra search options - oh my god, they are addictive.)