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With Netflix, there doesn’t seem to be any amount of seeing something and not clicking on it that ever gets the system to stop showing it to me. Every time I l
by throwaway0255 8y ago
With Netflix, there doesn’t seem to be any amount of seeing something and not clicking on it that ever gets the system to stop showing it to me.
Every time I log in, there’s a big wall of 20 posters I’ve seen a thousand times and never clicked on once and have zero interest in.
And the whole user experience seems about finding my way around that wall.
I can find stuff I’m interested in, but the platform never surfaces it for me. I always have to dig.
I always use the feedback system, too.
Netflix always brags about paying mid-six in pure salary and hiring top of market. Their internal presentations on content discovery and demography are something people tell stories of like they glimpsed a magical relic or something.
As a user I honestly cannot fathom where all that money and research could possibly be going.
Maybe my account is broken or something.
- zmmmmm 8y agoHeh ... same here. I'm baffled after all their supposed AI with competitions and all, it actually sends me emails pitching me to watch shows that I already watched end-to-end and finished. I couldn't think of a clearer or simpler signal to an algorithm than "they already watched it" but apparently Netflix isn't able to pull that off.