[ SECRET POST #3745 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3745 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Netflix got rid of stars.

[(Anonymous)]

But...what's to stop people who would one-star things like that from thumbs-downing them? This isn't actually going to help things. In this case, it does nothing, and in others it will artificially inflate or deflate things to "good" or "bad" because there's no middle ground.

Re: Netflix got rid of stars.

[(Anonymous)]

That's not actually how it works anymore, I'm pretty sure. Look at the genre pages - you can't actually sort by rating anymore.

I'm pretty sure this is how it works - it used to be that you had two distinct systems. You had ratings (where you could give it a rating out of 5), and you had suggestions (where Netflix would do some invisible math to try to predict what you'd like). And the two things weren't actually related. Ratings were just a method of determining a general, broad community feeling about a given show. Suggestions did not take into account the star ratings you gave things - it was just based on statistics about what you watched or considered watching. So there wasn't any relation between them, even thought it was easy to assume that there would be.

Now, they basically just got rid of ratings. They don't display any more. Instead, they have one thing - suggestions - which does take into account your thumbs up or thumbs down, and is both a means of predicting what you'll like and the thing that shows up over the thumbnail of the show and everything.

So random people who don't like a genre thumbs-downing things isn't a problem any more because (at least in theory) if I like kung-fu movies, and you hate kung-fu movies, you going through and thumbs-downing kung fu movies won't matter at all to me. Since our tastes are so dramatically different, it's not going to impact Netflix' prediction of whether or not I'll like a given kung-fu movie. And there's literally nowhere that the bare ratings themselves show up anymore (as far as I can tell).

Re: Netflix got rid of stars.

[(Anonymous)]

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Minor correction - the abstract ranking *does* still exist in the system, because third-party services like instantwatcher seem like they can still display it. But the point stands, from the point of view of someone who uses Netflix through the actual Netflix UI, this is pretty much just a better change.