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Because "rewatchability" is not just useful to judge how much people like to watch a movie again -- it's also useful to judge how much people like the movie, fi

• vitalique 14y ago
  Now compare your point of view with the one expressed by mhellmic[1] in this very discussion. 'Rewatchability' sounded to me as something even more vague than 'quality' while reading the article. Also, my pattern for rewatching films differs greatly from both your description for rewatchability and mhellmic's, and from my own pattern for rereading books. I don't see how it can be applied to rating systems with just one additional parameter (the quality thing). [1]http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4417184 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4417184
• slantyyz 14y ago
  For adults, this might be true, but for kids, i'm not so sure. If you've got kids, you know they'll just watch the same flashy animated movies over and over again, even if their opinion of the content is "meh". What would probably happen is that family films, especially animated ones, would have skewed results.
  • batista 14y ago
    Kids of that age (that watch the same "flash animated movies" over and over again) seldom buy/rent movies themselves. Plus, they do not normally use online rating systems...
    • slantyyz 14y ago
      Good point, but I do see adult-entered reviews at places like Amazon where they write "My kid watches this all the time, bla bla".