Netflix changing its rating system
Is it a good thing or a bad thing? From stars to thumbs up/down
shareI get that not enough people are rating what they watch on Netflix. Making their recommendations not precise enough.
With the "thumb system", MORE people are rating what they watch. Yet it can't be precise enough, it's way too binary. Meaning that those who really care about the ratings won't be involved anymore.
So yeah, I think it's a bad move.
If the problem was not enough people leaving ratings on Netflix, that's their own fault; they don't make it easy. All they had to do was have on the next page, after a film or show ended, "Rate [movie/show]?" and the ability to do it.
Instead the next page defaults to one's home page, or whatever. To rate something, you have to run a search and then rate it. People don't want to have to do that.
Typical stupid corporate-type solution to a problem they themselves created.
(Sorry, been away a few days)
> All they had to do was have on the next page, after a film or show ended, "Rate [movie/show]?" and the ability to do it.
It's already the case, but apparently people aren't rating so they're going for a dummy-friendly system... I really hope they won't go through with this.
Really? I've never noticed a screen like that after a film or show is over. If I had, I'd have been happy enough to give a rating most of the time.
shareReally really.
Anyway, I just logged on Netflix and it's using the thumb system now... Fuck.
Weird, because I've watched many shows and films on Netflix, although granted I've fallen asleep at the end of many as well, and have never seen anyplace to rate anything, only a return to either the or my home screen, and the only way I'd have to rate anything is to do another search and then rate them.
In any event, we both are in total agreement that the thumbs up/down rating system sucks.
Yeah, it seems like we're stuck with it for now :-/
So from my experience, there's a little "rate this show/film" under the thumbnail (where the credits are still rolling) when you're done watching a movie or a full season of a show (or after the series finale? Can't remember).
It's quite discreet, though.
Oh and maybe it doesn't matter, but I'm only watching Netflix on my PC. Maybe it's different with the dedicated app?
I watch on both my PC and (more often) my iPad. Maybe it is different on the different platforms. All I know is I've never seen a screen where I could leave ratings. Regardless, thumbs up/down is a bad move on the part of Netflix.
shareI mostly watch on a PC and I always have the rating screen. It's there after you watch something. It's there for movies you have not even watched yet on Netflix (like maybe you saw it in a theater). It's even there next to every movie on my streaming list and on my dvd Queue list.
So there's 3 places you can rate films:
- after watching it on a special screen
- on the movie details page for each movie
- on your list/queue
It's different on an Ipad, which is how I watch Netflix and have for perhaps a year now. No place to rate anything. After the film or show is over, the screen goes automatically to whatever other show or movie their algorithm thinks you'd like best.
shareDo you see red/grey stars there? Click on those to rate.
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No, as I recall the stars were gray and yellow. If i liked -- or disliked -- a film or show enough, I'd run a search and rate them. Otherwise, I wouldn't bother.
shareOn my DVD queue I still have the stars, on my 'watch instantly ' List, they are gone.
On the DVD queue they are red for the existing ratings (by other people) and grey for the extra stars.
Like if a movie has a 4 star rating, 4 stars will be red and one will be grey.
Then after I rate the movie, my stars will be in yellow and the extra will be grey.
So if I rated it 2 stars, there would be two yellow and three grey.