Quote: Btw, wouldn't it be more suitable to name it as
"admiration rate", or something like "popularity stats"?
Wasn't that what the watchlist was for? <runs>
In all seriousness though, the only other way I can think of to determine an "artistic level" would be to have
some sort of crew that manually assigns scores (like a judges' panel or some such) and I could see that going askew
very quickly. "One person's trash is another person's treasure" or something to that effect.
Basically if someone makes a wallpaper/doujin of an unpopular series that the "judges" don't like, then
the score could easily wind up being lower even if it's a wonderfully executed work of art with enormous talent and
effort put into it. Similarly, art scores coming from a relatively popular series could be inflated.
Then you run into issues with the perception of favoritism, i.e. "Why did so-and-so's wall get higher than
mine when mine's better? Was so-and-so brown-nosing the judges?" or something to that effect.
And then of course there's just different opinions of what constitutes art in different people's minds. Some
people like bright and colorful scenes, some like darker "grunge" scenes. There're minimilistic artists,
and there're artists that want their stuff to stand out. Basically personal preference weighs very heavily into
what people consider "art." (And don't even get me started on watchlists.)
So any rating system can be inflated. The "artistic level" is an indication of somebody's skill, but
hardly a perfect one. Just my two cents.
