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Read only the negative reviews.... the real content is in the 1, 2 and 3 star reviews. I always feel sad rating a movie three stars for "Liked it" on Netflix,
by dkarl 17y ago
Read only the negative reviews.... the real content is in the 1, 2 and 3 star reviews.
I always feel sad rating a movie three stars for "Liked it" on Netflix, because I know that Netflix's rating system is incompatible with the way people assign ratings. Any rating system has to assume that less than half the rating system will be used for neutral-to-positive reviews, and the rest of the system is a big wasteland of varying degrees of "This sucks!" I know the recommendation system doesn't care whether I mean three stars to be positive or not, but it still bothers me.
Is this just an American thing related to the hundred-point scale used in schools, where 69/100 is a failing grade? Or is it universal?
- imgabe 17y agoI think the great thing about netflix is that it's recommendations try to predict what you would rate a movie. So, if you consistently use three stars to indicate "liked it, reasonably good" and I use it to indicate "waste of time" then our respective recommendations from netflix will be different. The movies it predicts as 3 stars for me, will be movies I think are a waste of time, and for you would be movies you might find reasonably enjoyable.