Regressionist

Keyboard warriors are often nothing more than overly sensitive, biased, and reactionary individuals. They tend to champion popular social narratives while selectively disregarding legality. These individuals frequently align themselves with the prevailing sentiments of the moment, rather than principles grounded in justice. A glaring contradiction is evident in their moral judgments. This inconsistency reveals a troubling hypocrisy: they are quick to vilify certain behaviors that fall outside of accepted social norms, while conveniently giving a softer treatment to illegal endeavors if committed by those they revere so long as it aligns with their subjective values or personal biases. They contribute to a culture of shallow performative accountability, where the weight of one’s actions is determined not by realistic nuances, but by the fleeting moral trends, perpetuating biased narratives that skew justice conceptually and hinder meaningful dialogue.

I can go on forever about how dysfunctional and impractical the rating system is on MDL but I think it was made this way by design. It went as far as skewing the mentality of its users to how they view the 1-10 scaling. Which is unfortunate because MDL is still the largest database for Asian content, as well as the largest in terms of consumers of that content. It's like the monopoly of MAL, except that one has had a solid competition and proper replacements for awhile.

In terms of ratings for Asian content, I found IMDB to offer a slightly more reasonable scores. Although their Asian content scores are still higher on average than American/English content. Also, there's Letterboxd offering the most balanced representative real scores on 1-10 scaling. However, neither of which has the same size of database. It's hard to find lesser known titles, especially on Letterboxd.