ehhnetfliz

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   by ehhnetfliz 9y ago

   Right, but what about consumers that want the rating to be meaningful? Assumably netflix has a history of videos you've seen entirely; they don't need your rating to know you consumed it. Personally I just stop watching the moment
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   by ehhnetfliz 9y ago

   Right, but they don't ask me what I like about it. Judging by their recommendations they certainly aren't discerning it well. Netflix is interesting because their content is pretty bad (compared to say IMDB they have very few movi
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   by ehhnetfliz 9y ago

   What does a thumbs up mean, though? In a netflix context, am i recommending it to others? Trying to train the recommendation for my own taste? Making sure i rewatch it if I don't remember watching it the first time? What do I do if i l
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   by ehhnetfliz 9y ago

   In my experience, my favorite movies I find via glowing reviews. Rotten tomato completely obscures this view: if all the reviewers kind of like it, it'll get 100%, whereas polarizing films always suffer. I'll take "kids&quo
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   by ehhnetfliz 9y ago

   Ehh, netflix switched to that. It's even less useful now: there's no way to indicate you really like a show vs it's not terrible; this means your taste approximately correlates with abailable content, not content you prefer.