Anyone Ever Develop A Detailed Subjective Rating System For Your Pens?

[Paul-in-SF]

I've tried this subjective scoring system many times, eg: https://ukfountainpens.com/2019/02/28/a-grand-new-methodology-scoring-my-pen-collection/

 

Thank you, that's a very interesting take and methodology. I might steal something from it.

[Rosendust]

Not really. The only time I would really concentrate on that would be if the nib wasn't smooth (or up to what I prefer)

[The_Beginner]

you may have to establish a base line a pen which the general consensus(80%) state is excellent. With that as baseline you could compare all other pens to it when you write, or nib quaility etc.

[The_Beginner]

whatever that pen may be, just recall that people will possibly disagree but you would have to compare it to that baseline. I would also use price as a category to make since comparing a 10$ to a 400$ isnt "fair" so to speak

[A Smug Dill]

you may have to establish a base line a pen which the general consensus(80%) state is excellent.

whatever that pen may be, just recall that people will possibly disagree but you would have to compare it to that baseline. I would also use price as a category to make since comparing a 10$ to a 400$ isnt "fair" so to speak

 

I think the O.P. has since come back to clarify that, notwithstanding the wording in his chosen thread title and the initial post:

This would be an effort to get at the subjective value, to you, of each pen, and of pens in general.

Note: my emphasis

 

that the question isn't about 'you' at all, but that he was simply being introspective and wanted to share. He doesn't really care how you'd do something like that, or how 100 other fellow hobbyists would do it, as data points against which to calibrate his 'system' or approach; he seems (to me) to be more concerned about understanding his personal preferences, dislikes and weighting for such, and not how everyone else might do it in a similar format but different personal values and priorities than his own.

[The_Beginner]

 

I think the O.P. has since come back to clarify that, notwithstanding the wording in his chosen thread title and the initial post:

Note: my emphasis

 

that the question isn't about 'you' at all, but that he was simply being introspective and wanted to share. He doesn't really care how you'd do something like that, or how 100 other fellow hobbyists would do it, as data points against which to calibrate his 'system' or approach; he seems (to me) to be more concerned about understanding his personal preferences, dislikes and weighting for such, and not how everyone else might do it in a similar format but different personal values and priorities than his own.

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Edited September 6, 2020 by The_Beginner

[Paul-in-SF]

p.s. those who fancy extended debates about what I said and what that ought to have meant should try elsewhere. I'm not playing that game.

[wspohn]

Oh my!

 

I think one would have to be far more anal retentive than I am to even contemplate such a thing. It reminds me of the wine geeks who want to abdicate any analytical facility they might posses in favour of having an 'expert' assign a numerical score for them. That way they don't have to think about it at all. I have even seen one of these acolytes of the Great Number do notes on what was a clearly spoiled (corked) bottle of a wine and he parroted the review of the expert who tasted a good bottle because they lacked the self confidence to say 'This is (bleep)!"

 

I guess that if you are not that obsessive about it, there is nothing wrong with quantifying how you feel about each pen as an intellectual exercise, but do you keep track and have to look up the score of a given pen before you can remember what you are supposed to think of it....?

[Paul-in-SF]

Oh my!

 

I think one would have to be far more anal retentive than I am to even contemplate such a thing. It reminds me of the wine geeks who want to abdicate any analytical facility they might posses in favour of having an 'expert' assign a numerical score for them. That way they don't have to think about it at all. I have even seen one of these acolytes of the Great Number do notes on what was a clearly spoiled (corked) bottle of a wine and he parroted the review of the expert who tasted a good bottle because they lacked the self confidence to say 'This is (bleep)!"

 

I guess that if you are not that obsessive about it, there is nothing wrong with quantifying how you feel about each pen as an intellectual exercise, but do you keep track and have to look up the score of a given pen before you can remember what you are supposed to think of it....?

What I anticipate would most likely be a one-time exercise per pen to help sort out the keepers from those to sell on, and to feel while doing that that I had a solid grasp of why each pen should stay or go. I want to keep using all my pens in rotation (or why have them?) and I have too many pens to do that. I could, and probably will end up doing this, just sort out the ones I don't want to keep, and then as I re-use each pen decide whether to keep it or sell it.

 

What I was hoping for from this thread was to find some other nut job(s) like me who may have already done something like this and could share tips and tricks. Eciton, not a nut job, is the only one so far who has done anything along these lines.

[ParramattaPaul]

My 'analytical ability', be it with pens, wine, beer, food, or anything else is apparently limited to a matter of like or dislike. Does it suit my tastes or appeal to me, and with functional objects, does it work for me? That is what matters to me personally.

[como]

No, not for me. I don't need to justify why or how much I like a pen.