Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down - Sensationalist Headlines

[QUOTE]Get ready to say goodbye to star ratings on [URL="http://variety.com/t/netflix/"]Netflix[/URL]: The company is getting ready to replace stars with Pandora-like thumbs ups and thumbs downs in the coming weeks. Previously-given star rating will still be used to personalize the profiles of Netflix users, but the stars are disappearing from the interface altogether. [IMG]https://pmcvariety.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/img_20170316_143235.jpg?w=670[/IMG] Netflix VP of Product [URL="http://variety.com/t/todd-yellin/"]Todd Yellin[/URL] told journalists on Thursday during a press briefing at the company’s headquarters in Los Gatos, Calif., that the company had tested the new thumbs up and down ratings with hundred of thousands of members in 2016. “We are addicted to the methodology of A/B testing,” Yellin said. The result was that thumbs got 200% more ratings than the traditional star-rating feature. Netflix is also introducing a new percent-match feature that shows how good of a match any given show or movie is for an individual subscriber. For example, a show that should close to perfectly fit a user’s taste may get a 98% match. Shows that have less than a 50% match won’t display a match-rating, however. [/QUOTE] [url]http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/netflix-thumbs-vs-stars-1202010492/[/url]

Much better. Sometimes I didn't understand how some good movies or shows were rated low despite being very good.

[QUOTE=Antimuffin;51973631]Much better. Sometimes I didn't understand how some good movies or shows were rated low despite being very good.[/QUOTE] Because the stars don't represent how good something is

Just like when YT first started

[QUOTE=Itsjustguy;51973680]Just like when YT first started[/QUOTE] Honestly one of the few youtube updates I have ever approved of. More sites should ditch star ratings

Good, numeric scale ratings are impossible. Once you start to compare more than a few things with the same rating it becomes totally meaningless.

Personally I think stars are bad because they're way too arbitrary to be an universal standard for so many people, but I don't like the duality of Like/Dislike either.

Makes sense. People are shit at giving objective ratings on a numeric scale. People can still downvote for shitty reasons but at least it's binary.

Honestly think it'd be best to just have "Upvotes/Likes" alongside the recommendation system.

friendly.reminder that the star system (and this one) are not community aggregate ratings but rather how much Netflix thinks you'll like the content

[QUOTE=NixNax123;51973835]friendly.reminder that the star system (and this one) are not community aggregate ratings but rather how much Netflix thinks you'll like the content[/QUOTE] This only applies if you've rated anything yourself. I've never touched the rating system for this reason.

It'd be nice if it had a little review icon with some things to start the review off, like "But I would like it better if" or "But I would recommend for" etc There are so many reviews in the world that have no structure at all, it'd be nice if negative reviews could at least list the good things about it or what it could improve

this is much better. scoring systems such as stars don't work in a large online community when the ratings are not curated. what you end up with is people rating something 5 stars when they thought it was good and if they thought it was boring they rate it 1 star. then you got the dweebs who say "mm yes definitely feeling a strong 3 to light 4 on this film". a thumbs up/down system works best when it shows the amount of upvotes and downvotes rather than having a single rating that goes up and down. [editline]21st March 2017[/editline] [QUOTE=NixNax123;51973835]friendly.reminder that the star system (and this one) are not community aggregate ratings but rather how much Netflix thinks you'll like the content[/QUOTE] i'd like this system as a separate rating. i recently watched the documentary about algorithms on netflix and i really enjoyed the segment with the screen at microsoft which has a bunch of popular movies on it and as you drag the titles to either "i like it" or "i dont like it" it shifts the movies across towards ones it thinks you'll like and ones it thinks you'll hate. this is easy to implement with a like/dislike system's data fed into an ann program. over time the recommendations become more and more accurate, rather than you watched this movie, other people who watched this move also liked this movie.

[QUOTE=MangoJuice;51973983]This only applies if you've rated anything yourself. I've never touched the rating system for this reason.[/QUOTE] They monitor what you watch and use that information as well, rating things yourself just helps the system better understand I would assume.

Honestly, this is disappointing. I rate everything I watch and have found that the star ratings are typically quite accurate for predicting what I will enjoy or not. A thumbs up and thumbs down is so low detail.

[QUOTE=Code3Response;51973640]Because the stars don't represent how good something is[/QUOTE] But only because you get retards who rate without even watching the show or things that don't reflect show quality itself like "show is too scifi for my taste, 1 star" [editline]21st March 2017[/editline] My point is they should review it but try to be unbiased about it

So when will SH replace its star system with thumbs?

[QUOTE=Mr. Jelly;51992977]So when will SH replace its star system with thumbs?[/QUOTE] Hmm, something like a button to agree, and one to disagree. Maybe one to say that you thought a comment was funny too.:thinking:

[QUOTE=Mr. Jelly;51992977]So when will SH replace its star system with thumbs?[/QUOTE] I thought the whole point for their removal was that it forced people to make an actual argument if they wanted to disagree with someone. Having stars at all tends to defeat that point though since people will end up saying the common thoughts to accumulate them regardless.

[QUOTE=Antimuffin;51973631]Much better. Sometimes I didn't understand how some good movies or shows were rated low despite being very good.[/QUOTE] Sausage Party is like 2 stars on netflix but I loved it. Many of the poor reviews were from very offended people who got the wrong buttons pushed Plenty of anti-religious sentiment, and a cartoon food orgy, and bath salts, it's a good time.

[QUOTE=AugustBurnsRed;51993350]Sausage Party is like 2 stars on netflix but I loved it. Many of the poor reviews were from very offended people who got the wrong buttons pushed Plenty of anti-religious sentiment, and a cartoon food orgy, and bath salts, it's a good time.[/QUOTE] People also hated it because of the stuff that happened behind the scenes, it wasn't all the content of the movie.