The AMV Feedback Project: Reaching New Heights of Obsession!

[thefourthvine]

My annual bout of vid-meta came on early this year. Also, it's another feedback project. And, further, it's on a topic that's not going to be of great interest to many of you.

There is a specific person to blame for this, and that person is not me. I'm a totally innocent party, here. (As you will see, I fought this whole thing like - well, kind

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[elishavah]

Holy hell.

::whimpers::

I would have to rewatch all the AMVs I decided to keep, and then, well, you just KNOW that I'd want to rewatch all my live action favorites, too, and, and WAH, I don't have TIME to make today Vid Re-Watching Marathon Day!

[thefourthvine]

You do not have to re-watch all the AMVs you decided to keep. Holy shit. I mean, if you did - well, I have more than 400 of the fuckers saved to my hard drive; it would take me eternity, and I would lose my ability to form coherent thoughts. Or, in fact, to think at all. All my opinions would look like this: "Song...nice. Effects...shiny. Editing...clippy. Vid...tasty. Yum yum yum!" And it's not like they ban you for bad opinions, but I have my pride, you know.

Re-watch five! Opine about one! It's easy and fast!

*applies equal parts pressure and encouragement*

*offers cookies as inducement*

[lucia_tanaka]

*applaudes*

You know, if they gave out degrees in Fandom, you'd have a Masters.

And the coursework would me meta essays and the required reading would be Ms.Scribe's biography and it'd be the past Major ever.

*memories*

[thefourthvine]

Would there be a comical graduation outfit? It'd be worth it if I got a comical graduation outfit.

(And how much would it suck to say, "No, I can't go out drinking. I've got to finish 220 pages on ff.net for "Special Topics: Mary Sue - Self Insertion or Self Obliteration?")

[celli]

I read every word of this with complete fascination, despite not being an anime person (or really, much of a vid person) at all. You had to go and get statistical on me. *g*

[thefourthvine]

Statistics. They make the heart happy.

[brown_betty]

! You were all, watch AMVs, you don't have to feedback, and now that you've got people hooked it's all, oh, and by the way, now that you're watching…

[thefourthvine]

Well, there's another option - you can quick comment. "I loved it! Your editing was brilliant!" is easy to type into the field as you do the mandatory star rankings. I just can't ever be quick like that, so it's out for me.

But, yeah, the point was to lure you in with false promises. Did it work?

(And you must admit the vids are very shiny.)

[brown_betty]

Less "shiny," more "Oh god, my eyes, the goggles do nothing!" Although in a … uh. Strangely addicting way.

[thefourthvine]

Well, I never promised it wasn't the kind of shiny that occasionally results in temporary blindness, you know. They're just entrancing, is my point.

[scintilla72]

By the way, your favorite AMVs list can be found here: http://www.animemusicvideos.org/members/favvids.php?user_id=288751
(The link you gave only works for you or anyone else who's logged in with your account. Anyone else would either see their own favs list or get an error.)

> And if you give someone's vid a score he doesn't like, he can come on over and give your vids all ones.

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.

Numbers: 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

[thefourthvine]

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.

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