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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. 
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Apr 21, 2017 00:48
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Even where it works, people don't like it. http://bgr.com/2017/04/10/netflix-ratings-system-change-thumbs-up/ Bluh!
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Apr 21, 2017 00:57
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GonSmithe posted: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. 
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Apr 21, 2017 05:31
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Falstaff posted:I can't stand the new rating system. The star system was incredibly accurate for me (I'd rated hundreds of titles, easy), and led me to discoveries that I never would have bothered with otherwise. Based on the descriptions, I'd never have given the Lobster a second look, and It Follows? Not a chance. Yes, I actually get that on the website itself even, so I know it's not just my TV's old version of Netflix. Movies that were one star ever since I started watching Netflix now all of a sudden are five stars (or "98% correlation" on the website), and it's for movies like Sharknado or whatever. Maybe I should actually give these movies a chance, maybe I really will think they're 5 stars / thumbs up!  I did just watch Bottom of the World which is a recent addition; it showed as 5 stars and I really did think it was 4/5 stars. :p
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Apr 24, 2017 04:11
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