For a long time WeebRate showed the same idea three different ways. A show might have five stars on one page, an 8.4 out of 10 on another, and an 84% chip somewhere else. All three were derived from the same underlying data. None of them agreed on how to present it.
That is fixed. Scores are out of 100 everywhere on the site — one badge, one scale, one meaning.
Why 100 and not 10
The anime data that powers the catalogue comes from AniList, and AniList already stores its community average as a number from 0 to 100. Every time we displayed that as a rating out of 10 or a row of stars, we were throwing away precision to make it fit a scale we had chosen arbitrarily.
A hundred-point scale also reads faster. An 87 is legible at a glance in a way that four-and-a-half stars is not, and it sits comfortably next to another number for comparison. Given that most of what happens here is comparison — this show against that one, this character against that one — the format should make comparing easy.
You still rate out of ten
Rating something is a different job from reading a rating. Nobody wants to agonise over whether a show is an 84 or an 85, so the input has not changed: you pick a whole number from one to ten, and it is stored and displayed as its equivalent out of 100. An 8 becomes an 80.
This keeps the act of rating quick while keeping the display precise enough to be worth reading.
Three numbers you might see
Not every score on a page means the same thing, so they no longer look the same.
- A solid gold badge is the WeebRate community score — what people here have rated it.
- An outlined gold badge is your own rating, shown so you can tell it apart from the average at a glance.
- A plain grey badge is the AniList score, included for context and deliberately quiet.
What the badge will never do
The badge will not change colour based on how good the score is. It is tempting — green for great, red for bad — but colour on this site carries a specific meaning already. Red and blue mark the two sides of an argument, and the gold-through-red ramp marks tier ranks. A score that changed colour would collide with both.
An unrated title shows a dash rather than a zero. A zero is a rating. Nothing is not.