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So as you all know, Netflix recently abolished the star ratings in favour of Joaquin Phoenix's preferred method of rating - the thumb up / down.
Their reasons were...whatever, it was marketing speak, they said something about the algorithm but we all know they'll just try to force their originals on you at all costs (I was watching Iron Fist on my Xbox and between episodes it always advertised Santa Clarita Diet for example, similarly when watching a WWII film). When I opened up Netflix and it introduced it, it claimed your existing star ratings will be used and now has a % match rating on a lot of content but as of now I'm unconvinced. But I'm wondering if any of you have an opinion on this - good? bad? ugly? weird? don't care?
Personally I'm not a fan - I know some commentors talked about how people seem to rate things on Netflix as if others are actually going to see them (highly unlikely unless there's a ring on one of two parties' fingers in which case they're already trapped so it doesn't matter), but as someone who felt they had a very good system for himself, this is very disappointing.
Despite that I do have one hope for the future - they could eventually allow thumbs up / down on individual episodes as well as rating the series as a whole. This would be great for when you want to re-watch shows for various reasons but know enough of the plot that you can skip entire episodes you dislike (Game of Thrones is certainly one I wish I'd kept some sort of record for - there's just so much of it!). Somehow I feel they won't ever bother though.
Their reasons were...whatever, it was marketing speak, they said something about the algorithm but we all know they'll just try to force their originals on you at all costs (I was watching Iron Fist on my Xbox and between episodes it always advertised Santa Clarita Diet for example, similarly when watching a WWII film). When I opened up Netflix and it introduced it, it claimed your existing star ratings will be used and now has a % match rating on a lot of content but as of now I'm unconvinced. But I'm wondering if any of you have an opinion on this - good? bad?
Personally I'm not a fan - I know some commentors talked about how people seem to rate things on Netflix as if others are actually going to see them (highly unlikely unless there's a ring on one of two parties' fingers in which case they're already trapped so it doesn't matter), but as someone who felt they had a very good system for himself, this is very disappointing.
Despite that I do have one hope for the future - they could eventually allow thumbs up / down on individual episodes as well as rating the series as a whole. This would be great for when you want to re-watch shows for various reasons but know enough of the plot that you can skip entire episodes you dislike (Game of Thrones is certainly one I wish I'd kept some sort of record for - there's just so much of it!). Somehow I feel they won't ever bother though.