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Single episode scoring
Exactly how it sounds, the user would be able to score individual episodes instead of the whole serie.
I understand it might be inconvenient for some users to score every single episode, but it would be great to have this as an optional advanced feature, perhaps something like ‘advanced scoring’, so that users who want to rate episodes individually can do so.
as an example i absolutely loved the rap battle episode of kaguya and i would have loved to give it an higher score.
Can't you already do this with advanced scoring, by making a category for each episode
no i don't think so
you can technically
how ?
by making a category for each episode
Exactly what they said, you can make a rating category for each episode and rate it, which will also combine to make the overall score.
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but if you make a category for episode 1 ... 24 it still the same for 12 episode animes isn't it ?
I love the idea but the real implemetation looks a lil bit hard since scoring single episodes normally require the episodes informations ( title , actual-release date )
while some animes have episodes titles under watch tab
many other animes misses that
same for manga ( every chapter needs its data ... )
N.B : this can be implemented easly if they deal with numbers of episodes only ( not episodes ) without any data about it . Example : You score [ One punch man - 1 = 10 ] ( 1 is just a number no real data behind it ) but not [ One punch man - Episode 1 - The strongest Man - 05/10/2015 = 10 ]
Imagine that you look for people scoring about One Punch Man and you find [ One Punch Man - 13 = 0.5 ] while there is no episode 13 ...
that way implementation is easy but users can score non existent episodes XD. you might say they should approve scores from 1-12 ( one punch man case ) but what is the solution with One Punch Man 3 Part 2 when it is releasing ? the system have to check if the episode is released or not ( which leads to same work as retrieving title and date release ) it is hard to this since there is a lot of streaming platforms or tv channels ...
Okay we can agree that approving scores for an episodes when it realses ( planned ) might work
but there will still be a problem with postponement , if an episode planning time is past but it didn't release for technical or other issues then people can still be able to score it ( while it is not even released actually )
Love the idea, as it would be amazing for certain... anime with epic peaks and a slow slog until you get there.
However, on top of adding more data to keep track of (idk how much they already have, but if per user you multiply the number of ratings stored by usually 12x, that may be 12x the data stored... but it's also not that much since they also provide notes which technically almost always use more data save for exceptions like One Piece. So ig it's not that big a storage issue...if at all) the main angle to consider is the experience. Imagine feeling the pull to rate each and every episode, rather than giving a summary judgement for the end. My assumption is that it would be great for some with a fixation of sorts on stats and logging opinions, but it might be cumbersome for more if the option even exists... potentially, could be kept as an invisible feature unless you look for it.
And as I write this, I come across what might be the biggest counter-argument, every anime has its lower points and times that just build the atmosphere. Should those episodes, that give a lower (or sometimes much lower) score... be given equal weight to the final scoring? Cuz in my experience, earlier slow pacing is recontextualised by the payoff later, so we end up with the neat solution of evaluating the experience as a whole. Like Steins;Gate, first few episodes are slow and weird to any newcomer, but those moments become precious once they're gone and you look back at them fondly after all the shit they go through. So the idea feels more flawed than I initially thought.
Just wanted to post some counter-arguments to consider, it could still end up being a great feature depending on how they do it (like having an overall score for the anime, and a separate one produced from the average of the episodes).
it's just a matter of whether it ends up being better for the users or worse. As there are plenty of times when people say they want something, but once they have it... it's just worse than before and they don't realise why until after - if at all.
adding more data to keep track of (idk how much they already have, but if per user you multiply the number of ratings stored by usually 12x, that may be 12x the data stored... but it's also not that much since they also provide notes which technically almost always use more data
Most users don't use list notes, and the vast majority of users wouldn't use this feature either, so it doesn't really matter
I come across what might be the biggest counter-argument, every anime has its lower points and times that just build the atmosphere. Should those episodes, that give a lower (or sometimes much lower) score... be given equal weight to the final scoring?
My honest opinion is that thinking of anime in distinct categories (whether that's episodes or animation/music/plot/characters/whatever) is futile and foolish. The way you perceive anything isn't a math equation, much less one that just applies fixed factors to each aspect of the whole
Rating episodes is definitely a feature that only a tiny fraction of users would use, but what a significant fraction would use is marking specific episodes as watched, instead of setting an amount of episodes watched. Skipping fillers comes to mind as a use case. This would also in theory be relatively easy to implement, as long as you DON'T go all the way and start providing individual data for each episode, since AniList already tracks the total episode count.
Only if we can use the 3-smiley system for it.