User blog comment:CrashBash/Top 105 Heat Finals/@comment-4700688-20190603154431/@comment-9751413-20190603180916

Rankings are here to cause discussion and disagreement though. We are a small band of Robot Wars fans with perfectly reasonable differences of opinion, which is why The Arena is such a brilliant section of the wiki.

All we're trying to do is find out why a ranking is different to what we'd expect, given evidence for our difference of opinion and explained why. You responded quickly with the points tally for the battle, which was the right thing to do as it gives good substance to the opinion. I'm not saying share every point for every round - I did that with the Side)Competitions and it felt like Overkill GTI, which is why I cut it out mostly from my OotA list.

Rankings are supposed to be dividing when put out. Trust me, go and find a WatchMojo list about a subject you know, be it music charts, sports moments or something else. Read the title, listen to the introduction and then pause it and come up with examples you'd want to see in the list. Then try to not get annoyed when it appears too low or gets overlooked completely. Or watch a Todd in the Shadows Top 10 worst songs of the year and get annoyed when a song you like appears in it.

The one tactic I would suggest is making it obvious at the start of a "controversial" rating would be to make it obvious that it is such a thing in the first paragraph, then spend a little extra time addressing why it's a controversial opinion and justifying it. If it's reasonable enough we'll disagree of course, but understand why.

I think this discussion has run its course. We know that the general consensus is that Judge Shred vs Mute and Apollo vs Storm 2 are disagreed to be as low as they are, so lets just move on. That said, I am still waiting on baited breath for the justification of Pulsar vs Gabriel being higher than this one.

Anyway, I for one welcome comments on my blog anyway. I know the blogs are getting read at each update, it's just nice confirmation that it definitely has been read and not got buried under a big edit day.