Board 8 > I'm planning to do an anime ranking topic, but I need opinions about something

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I'm planning to do a topic ranking every anime I've ever seen (10 dropped anime, 260 with at least one season complete, 5 standalone anime movies, 275 total). If this sounds like a massive waste of time, I've been doing most of the work during downtimes at my job. I'm literally getting paid to rank anime! I hope at least a few people will be interested in following along, too.

Anyway, since I don't want it to take a year, my plan was to post five write-ups per day. I'm just worried that might be too much for people to keep up with. I'm trying to limit them to below 300 words each, but that's still potentially 1500 words a day. At the risk of sounding self-deprecating, though, I'm guessing most people will only skim the write-ups for shows they've seen. If people only read one or two out of each five anyway, maybe it won't matter? I don't want to overwhelm and lose any of the few people who might actually follow along with this big dumb anime ranking project. I also don't want to do too few, because then there would be full days of zero comments because I was the only one stupid enough to watch Lord of Vermillion: The Crimson King.

So, is five write-ups per day good or should I only do two or three? This will impact how soon I start, so thank you to anyone who replies or votes in the poll.

I don't think I could do that many (because I'm super lazy)

Mr_Crispy posted...

I don't think I could do that many (because I'm super lazy)

You mean you couldn't rank that many yourself, or you couldn't read that many write-ups?

I've kept an up-to-date anime ranking for the whole time I've been watching them, so the ranking was the easiest part

I don't think I'd be able to write up a big post every day lol.

You should just do whatever you feel most comfortable with.

You will likely not finish if you aim for 5/day

2-3/day will probably take at least 6 months to finish just because you won't be able to sustain the pace and need to skip days, if I had to guess. But you're much less likely to burn out at least.

Reading write-ups is nowhere near as much work as making them. Whatever works for you should be fine.

I've already got 100 write-ups done in advance. Rewatching things to more accurately talk about them has been what's slowing me down more than anything. I've had some stuff going on lately and focusing on this has been an excellent distraction

So don't worry about me not keeping the pace, everyone should vote for what they'd prefer to read!

It's close, but two or three is in the lead. After thinking about it, I prefer that option as well. With five, I was going to start at the end of August so I'd have more time to rewatch stuff and get ahead on write-ups. By doubling the length of the ranking, I can start this weekend!

Thanks again to anyone who voted. I'll start on Friday or Saturday with mini write-ups for the ten dropped anime just to get them out of the way, then do two or three actual write-ups each day forward.

Did you decide against have people nominate extra series for you to watch?

MacArrowny posted...

Did you decide against have people nominate extra series for you to watch?

No, I'll still do that. I'll have time for both recommendations and rewatching if I only do two or three write-ups per day.