I'm still disappointed they removed their friends feature. I valued my friends' ratings more than the ratings of the Netflix user base as a whole. I have noticed that Netflix tends to be more accurate with the "users like you" star rating than the whole user base ratings.
I no longer see a sum of my ratings but I believe it is well over 2,500. I know others that have rated a lot more (when there was the friends feature you could see your friends' number of ratings). Because of my number of ratings I felt that Netflix did a pretty good job with recommending me content. I will be sad to see this go as I definitely refer to star ratings when adding content to my queue.
Others have mentioned that the two factors of quality and enjoyment make the star rating more valuable and I agree. The only time I remember it breaking down for me was the film Rachel Getting Married (though I am sure there were others). I couldn't stand Anne Hathaway's character to the point that I gave it one star but at the same time I recognized that she gave a really strong performance in what was probably a good film.
Are they converting ratings to thumbs up/down? What does a three-star rating convert to? Those are typically movies that I enjoyed but wouldn't rewatch or recommend to others.
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I'm still disappointed they removed their friends feature. I valued my friends' ratings more than the ratings of the Netflix user base as a whole. I have noticed that Netflix tends to be more accurate with the "users like you" star rating than the whole user base ratings.
I no longer see a sum of my ratings but I believe it is well over 2,500. I know others that have rated a lot more (when there was the friends feature you could see your friends' number of ratings). Because of my number of ratings I felt that Netflix did a pretty good job with recommending me content. I will be sad to see this go as I definitely refer to star ratings when adding content to my queue.
Others have mentioned that the two factors of quality and enjoyment make the star rating more valuable and I agree. The only time I remember it breaking down for me was the film Rachel Getting Married (though I am sure there were others). I couldn't stand Anne Hathaway's character to the point that I gave it one star but at the same time I recognized that she gave a really strong performance in what was probably a good film.
Are they converting ratings to thumbs up/down? What does a three-star rating convert to? Those are typically movies that I enjoyed but wouldn't rewatch or recommend to others.