Individual Chapter Rating

[xBasil]

Add an individual chapter rating. I believe this would give some interesting information about the communities consensus on a series I.E. who is most liked girl by how highly the chapter they are featured in is rated. How people feel about a characters death, plot twists, any sort of plot development, individual chapter rating can determine how people feel about these developments.

 

[Jumballi]

They’ve already rejected plans for anything at the individual chapter level.
And the comment section does cover that in a sense.

 

[BzzBzz]

> I believe this would give some interesting information...

How? Many MD-users (including myself of course) don't even rate most of the seriaes they read. Why would we bother to rate individual chapters?

Let's take One Piece for example. It's rated by ~1800 users but every chapter was read at least 5k+ times and there's ~18k followers.

 

[WizTaku]

Useless and nobody would bother to rate. People rarely rate a series and you are talking about individual chapters

 

[Pika]

Isn't this already rejected 5 million times?

 

[DANDAN_THE_DANDAN]

Stop massacring the poor guy lol

 

[Holo]

People should rate more...

 

[MrIncognito]

Please have mercy on both this guy and the site's database

 

[fresthy]

I propose individual page rating, I need to know which page holds high meme value

 

[blackyawgdom]

rating individual chars and chapters and memeable moments? isnt that what 4chan is for?

 

[Oeconomist]

As it is, I doubt the value of ratings for a title. I see even less value to rating individual chapters.

If MangaDex readers were more generally inclined to buy licensed copies of work that they appreciated, then I'd be more interested in ratings, as they would tell me more about what work would or could receive commercial support.

 

[LowSanity]

@Oeconomist i don't agree. If i have physical copy, i already voted with my wallet.
I'm buying the stuff that i really like if it will ever be released in my country, most of them never will.
If you are asking me to buy it from amazon or other international site than i say NO.
Shitty economy in my parts of the world so it's like 3 or 4 times cheaper if i buy it in some local shop.

@xBasil I generally rate manga after i see how it ends.
If the ending is satisfying and the manga is good then i will rate high, if the ending is rushed or not satisfying then i will rate low.
There are mangas that i don't like from the begining, i don't rate them. They most likely aren't bad, they just aren't for me.
If something was interesting at the begining and at some point i no longer like it then i always rate it 4.
Hope it gave you some interesting information.

 

[kaza_hesto]

While I wouldn't use this feature, isn't it possible to just to a MAL-esque poll thing in each chapter discussion thread with "loved it" or "hated it" options? Since comments are forum threads anyway the functionality is there, though there is the issue of past chapters before the change not having polls unless some retroactive change is made to the discussion threads. Still, there's probably value to adding this even without changing old threads.

EDIT: reworded a bit.

 

[Oeconomist]

@LowSanity—

It would be interesting to see what you think that I've actually said and that you've actually refuted in your reply.

Let's try this again: The only reason that I'd be interested in ratings of manga or of individual installments is if these told me more about the commercial prospects of a series. They'd tell me more if MangaDex readers were more inclined actually to buy the work.

A monkey-dance about whether it's acceptable not to buy the work is irrelevant to what I said. What's relevant it whether MangaDex users do buy the work. And, when that comes-up for discussion, the bottom line is that, for one reason or another, they generally don't.

 

[LowSanity]

@Oeconomist
Refute? Did i? I just said i don't agree with you.
I'm one of mangadex users that buys physical copies and as far as i know a lot of users do buy physical or digital.
They probably are drop in the sand compared to the ppl that don't.
I don't think that's MD specific, go and ask on any free site and you will get the same results.

What i said is that if the circumstances would change and i would buy a lot more then i personally will not rate as by buying i have already rated it with my wallet.

 

[xBasil]

I agree with most of the points you all brought up. Although, I still think individual chapter ratings is a good idea, every series has it's highs and lows, and an overall series rating doesn't tell what those highs and lows were. IMDB uses individual episode ratings, I use that feature to find what black mirror episodes are worth watching. Of course I wouldn't find the same use for manga since most manga have at least some amount of continuity. Point is, another popular website does it, and it's given insight in that case, why not use it for a different medium.

Also no one would be forcing you to rate EVERY chapter, just like you aren't obligated to rate your completed series, none of their damn business or concern how you rate anyway.

 

[Oeconomist]

@LowSanity—

Refute? Did i? I just said i don't agree with you.

(Underscore mine.) No, you didn't just say that you disagreed with me. You stated various things that were in no way apropos to prior discussion except as an attempt at refutation.

Yes, there are MangaDex users such as I and apparently such as you who buy hardcopy; there are surely some who buy electronic copies. But, whenever the issue of buying arises, most of the discussion is either people explaining why they don't buy, or just baldly saying that they don't. There is no good evidence for a correlation between positive ratings and good commercial prospects, so I have little interest in the ratings. Ratings here are about as interesting to me as are answer-rankings on Family Feud (a guess-what-the-audience-guessed quiz show).

 

[Haikaka]

Is MD only interested in assessing the commercial worth of a manga? Do they even have a real economic interest in it, and work with the publishers in all langages the manga is available in? I doubt so. Obviously MD isn't all about market study.

Seeing threads and comments section, it is undeniable that MD is a social plateform. As such, any function that allows users to better express their opinion and see other's should be welcomed, as this is one of the reasons for the site existence.

 

[LowSanity]

@Oeconomist
Explaining my personal take and my situation is "things that were in no way apropos to prior discussion except as an attempt at refutation."
Whatever, take it however you want. This conversation make no sense.