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This 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 t
by eridius 9y ago
This 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.