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A comment on Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs Down. Parent comment

Re:Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs... by sweezyjeezy on Friday March 17, 2017 @12:08PM (#13895084)
How do you know what metric Netflix are optimising?
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Re:Netflix Replacing Star Ratings With Thumbs Ups and Thumbs... by scruple on Friday March 17, 2017 @02:09PM (#13896401)
They tell you so in TFA.

> Users would rate documentaries with 5 stars, and silly movies with just 3 stars, but still watch silly movies more often than those high-rated documentaries.

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