I still think it’s suspicious that Netflix dropped the star ratings right after Amy Schumer’s latest comedy routine bombed.
I like the Rotten tomatoes model for movies where viewers can trust critics and average viewers. There’s probably more cushion to push out outliers, but I’m not a statistician.
I don’t mind a one-star review that says, “This book sucks.” What I hate is the one-star review because Amazon delivered my book one day later than the reader expected.
Another issue is rating the raters. I gave a 1-star review and got slammed. The book was execrable. The writer wrote from ignorance, omitted a table of contents, and got facts demonstrably wrong. My other reviews on different products were down rated; that is, rated ‘not helpful’.
Just so’s you know, the review runs hundreds of words. It is not a drive-by.
I think that may be a factor in the rating inflation. If you give a product a bad review, you get trolls.
antares, i notice on a lot of books I look at on amz, they changed from x our of y people like this, and now it just says 4 people like this. Is that across the board so people cant down grade others’ reviews out of spite?
Their star system was broken anyway. It seemed to rate even one star as a like, and base recommendations on it. Oh, you hated Terrible Art Film? Maybe you’d like some other terrible art film just like it!
Thanks for the warning. I just recently watched something on Netflix that was so awful I was tempted to rate it, with the assumption it would make a difference in what they recommended. But if they’re just going to ignore my rating then I don’t see the point.
Not everything is a binary.
I kinda want four ratings: thumbs up – meh – thumbs down – not my thing
That would cover the gamut for me when rating entertainment.
Yep, and it would be great if it took “not my thing” as a cue to unclutter the recommendation list with similar movies. There’s currently no way to tell Netflix to never show you another (for example) superhero movie ever again.
I still think it’s suspicious that Netflix dropped the star ratings right after Amy Schumer’s latest comedy routine bombed.
I like the Rotten tomatoes model for movies where viewers can trust critics and average viewers. There’s probably more cushion to push out outliers, but I’m not a statistician.
I don’t mind a one-star review that says, “This book sucks.” What I hate is the one-star review because Amazon delivered my book one day later than the reader expected.
Another issue is rating the raters. I gave a 1-star review and got slammed. The book was execrable. The writer wrote from ignorance, omitted a table of contents, and got facts demonstrably wrong. My other reviews on different products were down rated; that is, rated ‘not helpful’.
Just so’s you know, the review runs hundreds of words. It is not a drive-by.
I think that may be a factor in the rating inflation. If you give a product a bad review, you get trolls.
antares, i notice on a lot of books I look at on amz, they changed from x our of y people like this, and now it just says 4 people like this. Is that across the board so people cant down grade others’ reviews out of spite?
Their star system was broken anyway. It seemed to rate even one star as a like, and base recommendations on it. Oh, you hated Terrible Art Film? Maybe you’d like some other terrible art film just like it!
Thanks for the warning. I just recently watched something on Netflix that was so awful I was tempted to rate it, with the assumption it would make a difference in what they recommended. But if they’re just going to ignore my rating then I don’t see the point.
Not everything is a binary.
I kinda want four ratings: thumbs up – meh – thumbs down – not my thing
That would cover the gamut for me when rating entertainment.
Yep, and it would be great if it took “not my thing” as a cue to unclutter the recommendation list with similar movies. There’s currently no way to tell Netflix to never show you another (for example) superhero movie ever again.