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Re:Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms by wavefunction on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @02:00PM (#16860732)
Presumably the people who liked Amelie would have enjoyed it both before and after they saw it, but how could they know they liked it until they knew enough about other people liking it and why those people liked it to like it themselves?

I can't tell if you think all/most the people who claimed they liked Amelie are dishonestly reporting they liked it because it is important for them to like something other people like?

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Re:Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms by chc on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @03:44PM (#16861653)
I think the point is not that they are being disingenuous, but that even people who are deliberately trying to like obscure things nowadays are primarily just consuming what Netflix shows them.
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Re:Taste is increasingly dictated by algorithms by majormajor on Tuesday April 17, 2018 @07:26PM (#16863223)
In 2018, if you're primarily using Netflix you're not deliberately trying to find obscure stuff. ;)
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