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Yeah, the percentage scale is even more useless than the stars were. I went to the effort of rating things consistently for things I watched, and it always reco
by microcolonel 9y ago
Yeah, the percentage scale is even more useless than the stars were. I went to the effort of rating things consistently for things I watched, and it always recommended garbage to me at 98% match, things I actually liked (but saw elsewhere) showed up as like.. 60-90%.
Neither of them are particularly useful, but at least the star system usually conveyed when something is irredeemable garbage.
- eridius 9y agoThis is so true. What was great about the old system was Netflix showed you both the average star rating, and the star rating for people like you. Both values together provided a fairly meaningful signal. But the percentage scale isn't very helpful, and Netflix is constantly recommending garbage at high values and good stuff at lower values.
- sbierwagen 9y ago"Star rating" is at least vaguely objective, but a "recommendation score" would give Netflix more latitude to put a thumb on the scale, if a movie studio was interested in paying money to increase a movie's rating. Recommendations are ads, and people who spend more get bigger ad spots.
- ng12 9y ago> irredeemable garbage Very few movies fit into this category. "The Ridiculous 6" has a 0% (!) on RT, yet apparently enough people watched it to warrant Netflix producing more Adam Sandler movies [1]. I think the implementation of the match system is pretty awful but it is the right idea. 1. http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/24/entertainment/adam-sandler-netflix/index.html http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/24/entertainment/adam-sandler-net...