I don't know what crack they were smoking in Netflix HQs, but I hate the new rating system. Titles I have rated poorly are now being suggested as a 70% match.. Ugghhh!
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Who Else Hates the new Netflix Rating System?
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Netflix ratings and reccomendations in general sucks... I think the system is diluted by the number of awful movies. 4 stars on netflix can be a 4 on imdb. They'd be better off sourcing their ratings from a 3rd party (IMDb, rotten tomatoes, etc)
They removed the sort by "highest rated" filter a while back which is incredibly annoying. That was a quick way of filtering the better content to the top.
They removed the sort by "highest rated" filter a while back which is incredibly annoying. That was a quick way of filtering the better content to the top.
I've not paid attention, is it simply a like or dislike now? If so I don't like it either. Maybe I'll pay attention for the next show I watch.
That on all accounts is inferior to a star system, even though a star system can serve the viewer poorly. Can it be surmised they are reducing the accuracy of this info to get viewers to watch more (bad) content?
I'm mixed. I prefer thumbs up and down for my own personal rating (easier), but I preferred the star rating to figure out what to watch.
1. I have ~170 movies in my queues. I order it 5 star to 3 star so that the movies that I most want to see are watched first.
2. I want to know which movies I've rated 4 star and 5 star. 3 star is "ok movie" 4 star for me is "I'd like to it watch again" and 5 star is "one of the best movies I've ever seen".
Up/Down for me is useless.
As for their ratings, for me they are accurate greater than 50% of the time which I find rather amazing giving the extraordinary large range of peoples tastes and interests.
2. I want to know which movies I've rated 4 star and 5 star. 3 star is "ok movie" 4 star for me is "I'd like to it watch again" and 5 star is "one of the best movies I've ever seen".
Up/Down for me is useless.
As for their ratings, for me they are accurate greater than 50% of the time which I find rather amazing giving the extraordinary large range of peoples tastes and interests.
I haven't found either system to be particularly effective. Before the change came. I had no idea the star system was meant as a possible match to me. I simply thought the star system was a general ratings. I simply thought people really liked some of the awful movies.
I too would rather the rating be based on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes. Listing both critic and viewer ratings separately.
Although I don't mind the matching. It will match shows or movies with something I recently watched. Regardless of my rating. Which is useless. At least it also matches shows I like. Which is how I found Poirot and Sherlock from watching Murdoch Mysteries.
Of course. I would also love it if Netflix offered English dubbed tracks to foreign films. Subtitles are useless if I'm cooking dinner while watching a movie. I can understand this for foreign films which have no English track. If it's already been released on DVD/Blu Ray with an English track. There is no reason not to include it on Netflix. Which is a shame as I wanted to watch "The Legend of Drunken Master" in HD. I guess I'll have to dig out my DVD.
Subtitles aren't great for people with poor eyesight either. I also question the accuracy. As I leave subtitles on to read what is being said in movies which overdue it on the music/background noise while actors are speaking. I have noted many errors in the transcription. I mean how hard is it to transcribe something? Can't studios be bothered with hiring a good stenographer to write the subtitles? What's a couple grand for a multi-million dollar movie.
I too would rather the rating be based on IMDB or Rotten Tomatoes. Listing both critic and viewer ratings separately.
Although I don't mind the matching. It will match shows or movies with something I recently watched. Regardless of my rating. Which is useless. At least it also matches shows I like. Which is how I found Poirot and Sherlock from watching Murdoch Mysteries.
Of course. I would also love it if Netflix offered English dubbed tracks to foreign films. Subtitles are useless if I'm cooking dinner while watching a movie. I can understand this for foreign films which have no English track. If it's already been released on DVD/Blu Ray with an English track. There is no reason not to include it on Netflix. Which is a shame as I wanted to watch "The Legend of Drunken Master" in HD. I guess I'll have to dig out my DVD.
Subtitles aren't great for people with poor eyesight either. I also question the accuracy. As I leave subtitles on to read what is being said in movies which overdue it on the music/background noise while actors are speaking. I have noted many errors in the transcription. I mean how hard is it to transcribe something? Can't studios be bothered with hiring a good stenographer to write the subtitles? What's a couple grand for a multi-million dollar movie.
The new rating system has actually broken functionality. For example I used to be able to ask Siri to filter out crap from the Netflix search results by saying "show me only the good ones" and all the 1-star and 2-star dreck would go away. Now that doesn't work--not a single title gets filtered out.
I really miss the days when Netflix presented its catalog like an Excel spreadsheet. In particular I miss being able to sort by columns. For example you could do a search for "drama" and then sort the "ratings" columns so they would be ranked best to worst, starting at the top.
Flipping through a much smaller number of random cover images with no regard to rating is such a huge waste of time and a disappointment. And now they've taken away my last remaining method for filtering out the crap.
Time to do some more research on how to get around Netflix's terrible UI.
I really miss the days when Netflix presented its catalog like an Excel spreadsheet. In particular I miss being able to sort by columns. For example you could do a search for "drama" and then sort the "ratings" columns so they would be ranked best to worst, starting at the top.
Flipping through a much smaller number of random cover images with no regard to rating is such a huge waste of time and a disappointment. And now they've taken away my last remaining method for filtering out the crap.
Time to do some more research on how to get around Netflix's terrible UI.
I could never drop Netflix. I think it has the best selection of shows out of all the popular streaming services, and has stopped piracy in my house (My son got me a bill from my ISP where I had to pay over 100$)
I found I never used it and was keeping it around for when family visited. I ended up dropping it after I found that people preferred watching YouTube over Netflix.