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Thumbs up or thumbs down is just as good of a signal for the users. Everybody has some innate star rating threshold where they won't watch a series or film. If
by zebrafish 10y ago
Thumbs up or thumbs down is just as good of a signal for the users. Everybody has some innate star rating threshold where they won't watch a series or film. If it's below 3.5 stars I won't even give it a chance. Thumbs down accomplishes the same thing.
I'm going to rely on Netflix's recommendation engine to put things in front of me that I am going to enjoy.
- throwaway91111 10y agoTheir recommendation system is useless anyway, to the point that I've started to see five-starred content as a negative indicator. Why not remove recommendations altogether? They clearly don't have a library to support it.
- TylerE 10y agoThe problem with that approach is that it assumes that liking is normally distributed. I'm reminded of Jerry Garcia's famous quote about the Grateful Dead: "We're like licorice. A lot of people don't like licorice - but the people who like licorice REALLY like licorice". A 3.5 could either mean 50% of users give it a 3, and 50% give it a 4, or it could mean that, say, 30% of users give it a 5 and 70% give it a 3 or less. How do you know you aren't part of the 30%? Great art is often polarizing.