Submit any form of media, whether it's a book, movie, show, game, franchise, or even a specific genre. When this market closes, I will release a poll on which users will answer whether they think each option is overrated or underrated, and by how much. The exact wording/format is TBD - I haven't decided if I want to do a numerical scale like "0 through 10" or a verbal scale like "extremely overrated" to "extremely underrated" that then gets converted into a linear scale. People with no opinion will not be required to vote an every work: Depending on the format, they will either be able to skip each work, choose a "No opinion" option, or both.
I will average the results of the poll to determine how over or underrated each option is deemed to be, with 0% representing the highest possible degree of overratedness and 100% representing the highest possible degree of underratedness. 50% means an option is properly rated and will also be used as the default resolution if nobody states an opinion on the option.
Note that here underrated means a higher score. I did this so that the works deemed to be the most underrated will show up first when this market is sorted from highest to lowest (as it is by default).
Inspired by: /NicoDelon/overunderrated-living-intellectuals
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1.00@Ppau yeah this, imo mediocre, album is consistently a top3 album of all time on RYM, I don't see how anyone could call it underrated.
@dgga I like the album and I dislike blanket statements about things being underrated or overrated
I was just making a nerdy joke
@SemioticRivalry The very first book (which is impossible to get legally for less than $100, but, uh, the publishers do not care if you sail the seven seas, it's complicated rights issues) is a novel written in the form of an encyclopedia.
@SemioticRivalry what an absolutely strange comment from a moderator. Shouldn't you do something about the toxicity then? Or at least point out what exactly you mean by this
@dgga i observe that the market structure is likely to create fights while under guidelines i can't really do anything about it
@SemioticRivalry that is a great explanation. I apologize for my rather combative reply, I was a bit rustled by the toxicity of the comments section
@SemioticRivalry This seems very unlikely given that we have comment sections about COVID origins, Israel-Palestine, and Destiny’s divorce.
@SemioticRivalry I mean, the goal of this will be to pick media that elicits strong reactions in both positive and negative directions, so it's sort of inevitable.
@PlasmaBallin tbf, it is a very early 2010s sci fi trilogy, and makes less and less sense the further we get from that zeitgeist. But it's a trilogy about a post human thief, with heavy references to encryption, game theory, the internet culture of the early '10s. Written by a String Theorist.