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Why can't reviews be organised in order of their score? I'd really like to see the best-reviewed anime, but it's just too much work to go through every single title.

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Seeing as how you're questioning the overall presentation of reviews and such, this would be more of a Technical question. Hence, I'll be moving it to the Bugs & Tech. Forum.

It's not quite what you're asking, but you can view user ratings for anime, which I find more helpful as a scoring system than the scores given in individual reviews.

animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/ratings-anime.php?top50=best_bayesian&n=100

Adjust "n=" to your preferred number.

Isn't that raiting system a little more screwed up though? I mean Death Note only has around 400 people who voted for it and it's #1. I agree with the OP, though, an archive like IGN or gamespot would be nice! Though it'll be a lot of work.

Well, this rating system tends to pull titles with fewer votes toward the arithmetic mean. That means that those few who have voted rated the title very highly. What I think is perhaps problematic, though, is that three of the top four are titles from this year. All of this can probably be attributed to the fact that hardcore fans of the shows are probably more likely to watch and vote early. The ratings tend to decrease over time for highly rated shows. Look at Cowboy Bebop which was at the top for most of the time that the system has been in place. The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya also had a rapid rise due to rabid fans, but the ratings for that have moderated somewhat. Overall, I suppose there's really nothing to be concerned about.

Now, there is another statistic that ANN calls Most Popular. It is a simple sum of all votes, so titles with lots of votes and generally high ratings will tend to be near the top of this list.

one3rd wrote:

The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya also had a rapid rise due to rabid fans, but the ratings for that have moderated somewhat.

Using the term "moderated" can be misleading, as if implying any ANN staff has "adjusted" the rating. The fact is, being a really controversial title, The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya has quite a few rabid anti-fans as well as rabid fans.