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I get it, from a business standpoint it probably makes sense to do it like Netflix, I guess one huge viral hit still more than makes up for those few enraged cu

I get it, from a business standpoint it probably makes sense to do it like Netflix, I guess one huge viral hit still more than makes up for those few enraged customers who cancelled their subscription because some not-that-successful show they got attached to got cancelled for the third time in two years. Because most just default to what the article describes, never touch a new show until it has a couple of seasons or clearly went viral. So worst case we get a race to the bottom, only shows that are the equivalent to a TikTok video that immediately grabs your attention, or viral hits that create FOMO. > I'm not going to spend my time trying to manipulate their numbers and hope that somehow that gets me what I want. Well I was half joking there, but it seems like this would be the only way to vote for a show if you don't have the time right now, but would like to watch it later and make sure it gets an ending. I don't know if this would really be worse than not doing it. Getting a show you'd have watched later cancelled, and then rewarding them for that by not cancelling your subscription also seems wrong.

autoexec 4y ago
> I don't know if this would really be worse than not doing it. Getting a show you'd have watched later cancelled, and then rewarding them for that by not cancelling your subscription also seems wrong. this implies that we can choose to "get a show canceled" or not when the truth is we can only make guesses about what might or might not save a show. If netflix posted numbers on how many more views were needed to save a series, just for example, I might be more tempted. As it stands now though, there's no telling what will please them, or if it would matter, so there's little point in trying. I'd rather continue to use the service I pay for in the way that's most convenient for me and most respectful of my time, and hope that eventually netflix realizes that if they cancel good shows over shitty and meaningless metrics they're not only throwing away the money they invested up to the point of cancellation, but that what they're left with can only hurt them from that point forward. I've been with netflix since it's early days and while they get closer and closer to making me cancel every year I'm still hoping they do better. They don't really care about feedback though, so how I interact with their service has to express what I want from them.
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8note 4y ago
I don't know if it actually makes business sense to do it like Netflix. All the money spend on making a show is basically OpEx rather than CapEx -- each show keeps the lights on for another month of subscriptions, but nobody a year down the line is going to subscribe to watch all the old cancelled shows If the point was to build up their own backlog of tv shows people watch, they aren't making much progress on that goal

autoexec 4y ago

> I don't know if this would really be worse than not doing it. Getting a show you'd have watched later cancelled, and then rewarding them for that by not cancelling your subscription also seems wrong. this implies that we can choose to "get a show canceled" or not when the truth is we can only make guesses about what might or might not save a show. If netflix posted numbers on how many more views were needed to save a series, just for example, I might be more tempted. As it stands now though, there's no telling what will please them, or if it would matter, so there's little point in trying. I'd rather continue to use the service I pay for in the way that's most convenient for me and most respectful of my time, and hope that eventually netflix realizes that if they cancel good shows over shitty and meaningless metrics they're not only throwing away the money they invested up to the point of cancellation, but that what they're left with can only hurt them from that point forward. I've been with netflix since it's early days and while they get closer and closer to making me cancel every year I'm still hoping they do better. They don't really care about feedback though, so how I interact with their service has to express what I want from them.

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8note 4y ago

I don't know if it actually makes business sense to do it like Netflix. All the money spend on making a show is basically OpEx rather than CapEx -- each show keeps the lights on for another month of subscriptions, but nobody a year down the line is going to subscribe to watch all the old cancelled shows If the point was to build up their own backlog of tv shows people watch, they aren't making much progress on that goal