In light of the approaching New Year, it is once again time for year-end reflections. Do we wonder if 2008 was a good year for anime? Without a doubt, 2008 was no 2007, yet there was an abundance of good in 2008. Where did 2008 win, and why will I remember this year in anime?
And another round in the bag, with some rehash. As previously mentioned, links to reflections can be found on the year-end marathon page. Honestly, this round pissed me off more than the last, and two of these series I have yet to finish, but I feel I’ve had enough to assess them in the final placing (finishing may lower or raise their placing, but because it is either, it is more than likely not to change positions).
Unfortunately, we have no snow in Florida, and it’s not even cold this Christmas, but a bit humid and over 25C. As much as I love a cold and snowy Christmas, it’s still a good time of year. Rather than formulating my own holiday post, I’ll likely be reading other’s, bouncing comments, or noting. I’ve also slowed the marathons, and will probably not fit everything I’d like to complete by New Year’s, but I’m okay with that.
Enjoy what we can with the people who are around, or even if alone, find some digital company, but let’s not forget to find a smile. I wish everyone bright holidays, warm if it’s cold and cool if its hot.
Just a short bump, but while pondering ratings with hikago in #ab, I decided to try and test another system’s values on the melative system. I saved the technicals for the melative blog, but I hope anyone that caught the previous post checks it out and maybe can express its shortcomings.
Also featured in that post is a descriptor of what the values mean, and though they do not show on the current implementation, they are calculated and stored in the db; so little time to fix things.
I would like to say that any of these cataloging sites like ANN could just up and use such a system, but I’m afraid it would break (series ratings would swap many places), because the premise was not there in the beginning. A typical issue would be that some users’ ratings would be zeroed due to the redundancy of their votes…. I’m sure if a bunch of ratings went for zero contribution it would cause a ruckus. While it is possible, I don’t recommend restricting list size.
Perhaps it isn’t a secret, I’ve a thing for wondering why individuals can sincerely trust finite point-scale ratings (10 balloons, 3 hearts, 5 clouds).
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