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It's an interface problem. Users aren't able to express the fidelity needed through the current action set

mooreds 7y ago
Right. You only have four actions on Spotify as I recall (thumbs up, thumbs down, pause and fast forward). I guess some of the other apps have the larger bucket of 'who is watching/acting' based on account. I am not sure how many actions are needed, but I can think of a few more: * Not now, but later is fine * Maybe next month * Play the opposite of this * Something similar but new to me
- ancarda 7y ago
  It'd be nice to have an "I've already seen this" button that will mark an episode/season/show as watched so it doesn't keep coming back up. Netflix really wants me to watch Breaking Bad, but I've already seen it. I liked it; give me more like that, but not exactly that
  - frosted-flakes 7y ago
    You can do this with YouTube. Just click "Not interested" in the three-dots menu, and click the "Tell us why" link that appears.
    - wwwhizz 7y ago
      After which it will still recommend it to you.
  - DJHenk 7y ago
    > It'd be nice to have an "I've already seen this" button that will mark an episode/season/show as watched so it doesn't keep coming back up. That's not just nice, that is the most obvious "feature" a normal person would design. I've stopped watching Netflix because of nonsense like this. They know I've seen it before, because I watched in their player. Also, even the tiniest, most modest application of analytics would discover that I always watch one series at the time, from start till end, or whenever I'm bored with it. In the past years, I have never ever watched a thing twice. Still, it was constantly showing me things I've already seen. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that Netflix does not have have my best interest in mind when designing their algorithms and that they don't respect their customers. So I canceled.
JohnJamesRambo 7y ago
Especially on Netflix now...it was lobotomized with the addition of the thumbs up thumbs down binary rating system.

Right. You only have four actions on Spotify as I recall (thumbs up, thumbs down, pause and fast forward). I guess some of the other apps have the larger bucket of 'who is watching/acting' based on account. I am not sure how many actions are needed, but I can think of a few more: * Not now, but later is fine * Maybe next month * Play the opposite of this * Something similar but new to me

ancarda 7y ago
It'd be nice to have an "I've already seen this" button that will mark an episode/season/show as watched so it doesn't keep coming back up. Netflix really wants me to watch Breaking Bad, but I've already seen it. I liked it; give me more like that, but not exactly that
- frosted-flakes 7y ago
  You can do this with YouTube. Just click "Not interested" in the three-dots menu, and click the "Tell us why" link that appears.
  - wwwhizz 7y ago
    After which it will still recommend it to you.
- DJHenk 7y ago
  > It'd be nice to have an "I've already seen this" button that will mark an episode/season/show as watched so it doesn't keep coming back up. That's not just nice, that is the most obvious "feature" a normal person would design. I've stopped watching Netflix because of nonsense like this. They know I've seen it before, because I watched in their player. Also, even the tiniest, most modest application of analytics would discover that I always watch one series at the time, from start till end, or whenever I'm bored with it. In the past years, I have never ever watched a thing twice. Still, it was constantly showing me things I've already seen. The only conclusion I can draw from this is that Netflix does not have have my best interest in mind when designing their algorithms and that they don't respect their customers. So I canceled.

JohnJamesRambo 7y ago

Especially on Netflix now...it was lobotomized with the addition of the thumbs up thumbs down binary rating system.