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I wish we could have the IMDB/RT ratings directly in Netflix and a page with all the movies sorted by those ratings. There are articles on Internet like "top 100 Netflix movies of the month" but it's almost always for the US Netflix.
I 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…
An exquisitely detailed system like Airbnb's costs the user more time & hassle. Which means, assuming you make it voluntary, that a lot of them skip it. Meanwhile a simple/easy system like this, turns a scalpel into a sledgehammer somewhat, but you get a lot of them. So there's a balance to be struck for your site's particular userbase.
It'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…
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Glad you asked! http://minimaxir.com/2017/01/amazon-spark/ http://minimaxir.com/2014/09/one-star-five-stars/
I actually thought Randy Farmer touched on this in his Google talk on "Building Web Reputation Systems" - but maybe I saw it somewhere else, years ago. Like this: http://www.lifewithalacrity.com/2006/08/using_5star_rat.html At any rate I thought it was common knowledge that 5-point ratings have issues - especially as a "social rating system"?
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>> Star ratings can be too much detail and cause confusion The iOS App Store is a good example of this. An unbelievable number of people, for some reason, thing 1 star = great and 5 star = bad.
Haha yes! Where the hell do these people learn that?? The other thing that annoys me with ratings in general, specifically places like amazon, is when people pan a perfectly good item because of some third party factor. "Item was great, but it came in a beat up box from the post office, I'm giving it one star." WTH does someone drop kicking your box have to do with the product?
I'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…
It would convert to no rating.
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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.
What other services do you use? I paid for prime, so i've watched some stuff on prime video, but there's really not much on there. Netflix is pretty much my only option for most TV shows. Worth noting I'm in Canada.
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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.
What other services do you use? I paid for prime, so i've watched some stuff on prime video, but there's really not much on there. Netflix is pretty much my only option for most TV shows. Worth noting I'm in Canada.
I basically rate like this: unbearable-cannot-finish (1), bad (2), okay-for-background-noise (3), what-I-expect (4), awesome (5).
Of course, some movies are somewhat between 3 and 4 or somewhat between 4 or 5. But if you just give me thumbs up or down there are like 80% of movies I cannot rate at all, because they are neither.
As 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…
For you. But are you representative of the whole or even a majority? I personally use it to reflect whether I enjoyed it or considered it a waste of time.
I give some of my favorites - like Hackers - 5 stars but would never consider it a "quality" movie. It's awful and silly but that's the fun of it.