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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > Imp Zone > Blockbuster Video > Netflix new ratings system
 
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GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.

Maldoror posted:

After years (since inception) of a five star rating system, Netflix pulls a Youtube and now switches to thumbs up / thumbs down.

That's cool I guess, but...

Netflix user ratings were more or less pretty reliable under the five star system.

There are thousands of devices (like TV's and Blu-ray players that are a few years old or more) that have a pre built or custom built Netflix app on them that no longer gets updated, so the new system has to work with all the existing apps which still use the five star system.

This has had the interesting effect on such apps of making really lovely movies that have long held a one star rating on Netflix (like American Poltergeist for example) to suddenly have a perfect five star rating.

I'm guessing that perhaps they translated the existing ratings as one star = thumbs down, two or more stars = thumbs up.

:master:

The star rating is not what others gave it, it's what it thinks you will give it based on your ratings of other movies.

This is why they removed the stars, because no one knew what they were actually for.

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GonSmithe
Apr 25, 2010

Perhaps it's in the nature of television. Just waves in space.
 I definitely didn't mean to say I didn't like the stars. They were definitely very on point for me most of the time because I rated a lot of things when I first got Netflix, and I think there needs to be a middle ground to the "thumbs up."

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