I was playing around with it not completely sold on it
http://variety.com/2017/digital/news/netflix-kills-star-ratings-thumbs-up-thumbs-down-1202023257/
Sounds like you rate it neither thumbs up nor thumbs down. So...basically if you had to use Netflix's new rating system to rate said system, you wouldnt be able to do it.
shareI see they no longer show what others have rated a title to prevent an audience consensus.
shareIt was always the case.
shareNo, you used to be able to see a star rating based on audience consensus.
shareI'm not writing in blue you know, I just linked you an article I think you should read.
shareThen what was all the fuss about Amy Schumer getting a low rating about?
shareIt was all bullshit, that's what it was.
Her special has a 3/10 on IMDb, a user score of 1.4 on Metacritic and a 8% on Rotten Tomatoes.
People DISLIKED it, really. She can't blame "Reddit trolls" for everything. So when a lot of Netflix users rate it at 1 star ('cause it seems to be the consensus), then a lot of other people will see their recommended rating decrease accordingly.
But huge fans of Schumer will still see her Special with a high rating, because the algorithm supposedly knows what they like.
Now that I know this about Netflix's way of doing things it seems a pretty bizarre system they have going there.
shareWell I kind of like it, it's a personalised experience.
On the other hand, I often check IMDb to see if something is really worth watching since Netflix won't show me an average of every users rating.
They should show both, but I can see why they wouldn't.
Imagine how many meh shows and movies there are on Netflix. I don't think they would let us know how supposedly bad they are, since they want us to watch them so they didn't buy the rights for nothing.
And stuff like "out of 5000 shows on Netflix, half of them are not worth watching!" (I'm making this up) doesn't make a great publicity.
True, about half -- probably more -- of the shows and movies on Netflix are meh. I have to spend a lot of time searching for something to watch, and get tired of searching for something I want to watch and finding out it's not there.
I don't like their "personalized" recommendations. It's rare something they recommend for me is anything I want to see and too often has nothing in common with the things I've watched that they claim is similar.
I think they should take it one step farther and not tell you the rate. Until you rate it, then it will show what the overall rate was. You would think if you saw a 3/5, it would influence you to keep it close to that.
shareI used to select shows by Highest Rated... now that they stopped that feature I'd have to search each title individually on an alternate site.
If I were to guess their strategy... it would be so that people wouldn't notice as much when they lose rights to some high quality series and movies. By using the "customized" experience angle they can much easier hide a shrinking library, especially as few would bother searching for everything alphabetically.