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Can someone tell me what the 94% match in Netflix means? I don't understand what in the world XX% match is all about. My biggest complaint about Netflix is th

by ijidak 4y ago

Can someone tell me what the 94% match in Netflix means? I don't understand what in the world XX% match is all about. My biggest complaint about Netflix is there is no simple 5-star rating. Or something like that. I'm not going to watch a trash movie that is a XX% match to some bogus criteria. Even if that match is 100%. Thus, unlike Prime, I explore very little with Netflix. I manually look up the rating in IMDb before I watch anything. (Which is why I prefer Prime. Since IMDb is built in.)

imgabe 4y ago
Roughly, people who liked movies you liked, also liked that movie. If you like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, but you haven't seen Ghostbusters, and 94% of people who have seen all three movies and liked the first two also liked Ghostbusters, then it's 94% likely that you'll also like Ghostbusters. I'm sure it's much more complicated and nuanced, but that's the general idea.
- fastball 4y ago
  That should be the idea, but the match score never worked out well for me personally. Specifically at some point it seemed like Netflix started weighting all their own content much more heavily than others so the match scores on Netflix shows were much higher, even though obviously Netflix producing a show has almost no bearing on whether I'll like it or not.
- nickjj 4y ago
  I've never liked a single video on Netflix and I've had them for a number of years. I think with no direct likes the rating system starts at 99% and might also take your viewing history into account to adjust it over time based on third party likes from people who watched similar movies to you. I'll often see a bunch of new Netflix original movies come up with 95-99% matches as soon as they're released but then over time they drop to 64% and eventually never come up again. I wish it started at 0% and worked its way up because the current implementation is really misleading. It's trying to get me to watch something because it's a Netflix original they want to push but really their plan backfired and now I don't watch any Netflix originals unless I know for sure I want to watch it beforehand.

by ijidak 4y ago

imgabe 4y ago

Roughly, people who liked movies you liked, also liked that movie. If you like Star Wars and Raiders of the Lost Ark, but you haven't seen Ghostbusters, and 94% of people who have seen all three movies and liked the first two also liked Ghostbusters, then it's 94% likely that you'll also like Ghostbusters. I'm sure it's much more complicated and nuanced, but that's the general idea.

fastball 4y ago
That should be the idea, but the match score never worked out well for me personally. Specifically at some point it seemed like Netflix started weighting all their own content much more heavily than others so the match scores on Netflix shows were much higher, even though obviously Netflix producing a show has almost no bearing on whether I'll like it or not.
nickjj 4y ago
I've never liked a single video on Netflix and I've had them for a number of years. I think with no direct likes the rating system starts at 99% and might also take your viewing history into account to adjust it over time based on third party likes from people who watched similar movies to you. I'll often see a bunch of new Netflix original movies come up with 95-99% matches as soon as they're released but then over time they drop to 64% and eventually never come up again. I wish it started at 0% and worked its way up because the current implementation is really misleading. It's trying to get me to watch something because it's a Netflix original they want to push but really their plan backfired and now I don't watch any Netflix originals unless I know for sure I want to watch it beforehand.