In most cases I would agree with the simple up/down rating, because we're seeing the lunacy of "less than 5* is failure" in various platforms. But in the case of Netflix where it's primarily being used to manage my own personal preferences on content, some nuance of "more like this" and "well I kinda enjoyed it but it was badly flawed" and "meh" and "never ever show this to me again" is useful.
Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down
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#162I already push my Netflix ratings higher or lower than I really feel just to more heavily influence Netflix's suggestions. Otherwise, Netflix thinks I would give a 3.5 stars to pretty much all movies, which is not helpful to me.
That said, a simple thumbs up/down doesn't allow me to tell Netflix which movies were not bad and which to never show me again.
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#163Earlier quoted context omitted.
I support Netflix out of philosophy. I want to support media which is offered without restriction and most importantly without advertisement. Netflix goes out of its way to make sure it's as watchable as possible (sans being able to download their stuff without DRM, but I can't blame them for that, it's too risky for their business). I have similar reasons to support HBO. However, I will not send money towards FOX/Co…
After you hand Comcast your money, you can also watch their content on your phone or tablet, anywhere, both live and on-demand. You can also use the phone or tablet to access what's on your DVR. Comcast is actually doing a good job of making it quite easy to watch the content on any device.
I haven't looked it up in a long time, but I don't think it's as easy as Netflix. Also, I want zero ads, not just the ability to stream.
It's a business model problem, and the entertainment model media providers offer is just not comparable to what is available on the internet.
Currently, I don't think the interest of Comcast's shareholders is the same as mine, they want to protect and grow their existing revenue streams, which depend on ads and outdated licensing contracts. My interest is to watch what I want, when I want, with as little friction as possible. Netflix and HBO provide that, none of the other big media companies do.
Also, Comcast has an interest in opposing net neutrality and providing a shitty internet experience so as to support their dying ad and TV business, so I also don't wish to support them for those reasons.
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#164Is this just part of the trend to dumb everything down to a polarising dichotomy? Because the trend to stop people from having a more complex and rational opinion than just picking sides doesn't seem to exactly improve discourse or debate, or inform and educate... Wouldn't it be more beneficial to have fewer people give a more detailed review to describe what they like and dislike about something? What use is "good"…
I think it's more a reaction to a usage pattern of their star system. YouTube abandoned their five star rating system citing that most people voted only 1 or 5 stars with almost nothing in between. [1] I'd guess a vast amount of Netflix users do the same. [1] https://youtube.googleblog.com/2009/09/five-stars-dominate-r...
YouTube is partly to blame for this. Since YouTube reported the average stars, if you saw a 4-star video and thought that it should be 3-star, then the optimal strategy was to vote 1-star to pull it down as fast as possible. If instead YouTube had reported the majority option (and publicized that fact) then it would have incentivized people to vote what they truly think.
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#165As I posted in the dupe: This saddens me. >Users would rate documentaries with 5 stars, and silly movies with just 3 stars, but still watch silly movies more often than those high-rated documentaries That's not incongruous to me. The stars are not about "enjoyment" factor, they are about perceived quality. I may have a go to cheap ice-cream and rate it 3-stars but rate a good affogato 5-stars and only have it once in…
Shouldn't this quality rating be within a genre? Not all documentaries are 5-star, and not all silly movies are 3-stars. How do you compare ice-cream with cheesecake?
Yeah, if they went with up/downs but allowed genre up/downs I think this would correct some anxiety about this change. "Yes, I still want to watch anime. No, the last 4 shows you recommended to me were not good."
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#166so how exactly i distinguish between liking something a little and loving something?
this seem like pretty retarded decision
at least we have TMDb where we can rate and discuss movies, unlike IMDb or Netflix
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#167I feel like star ratings, if just given in general, are pretty useless for anything that has multiple qualities. For example, maybe I like the cinematography of a movie but I think the acting is shit, or maybe I think the taste of the beer is nice but it's too acidic or sour and wouldn't work with specific foods because it's overpowering. Airbnb does this pretty much spot on, in that they ask for 1-5 stars for five c…
I like to use the French Laundry example for how meaningless the star ratings are. Was it the best meal of my life? Yes. Was having the best meal of my life worth $1000? Not even close. So, did I have a 5-star meal, or did I have a one-star money waste? And are my preferences at all meaningful to a random person who has no knowledge of my finances or desire for good tasting food?
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#168Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or edge cases like me will get that little boost to just give up on Netflix. I already use them less than other streaming services, and I could always just turn it on and off again.
Honestly one of the only reasons I keep it is because I have so many movies that I've rated and didn't want that time investment to go to waste. I guess now that isn't going to be a factor.
That was definitely part of it or me too; the rating system has always been a draw. It took time to make it actually respond the way I needed it to, and now it's just... sigh
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#169It's about damn time. 5-star rating systems are broken . A 1/2/3-star rating is effectively a dislike, and a 4/5-rating is effectively a like. In the big data sense, a deviation from a 1-star for dislike and 5-star for like is statistically meaningless. (and this is universal ; star ratings on Amazon Products and Yelp Locations have the exact same distribution ). The interesting part of this is what Netflix gains fro…
no, 1 is bad movie, 2.5 is average movie, not bad, not really good, 5 is masterpiece seen once in few years
it's sad teenagers who think life is black and white are the ones deciding it for others
luckily there is TMDb where i have my watchlist, imported ratings from IMDb and can discuss there each individual movie
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#170I'm still disappointed they removed their friends feature. I valued my friends' ratings more than the ratings of the Netflix user base as a whole. I have noticed that Netflix tends to be more accurate with the "users like you" star rating than the whole user base ratings. I no longer see a sum of my ratings but I believe it is well over 2,500. I know others that have rated a lot more (when there was the friends featu…
why not use TMDb or IMDb for ratings? you can export your ratings from IMDb and import them at TMDb which has also discussions for individual movies