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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by scarface74 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:40PM (#17789879)
Well, maybe since Netflix has viewing data, knows how often a show is watched to completion, and over 125 million paying subscribers and some sort of multiple of actual users per account, could it possibly be that they have more of an insight into what is “junk” than someone looking in from the outside?
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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by lukeschlather on Saturday August 18, 2018 @05:33PM (#17790875)
Netflix really doesn't have much insight into level of engagement. I leave some shows running while I do chores around the house, and that looks like I'm obsessively binge watching them. I take months to finish watching other shows I enjoy a great deal. I appreciate having a supply of garbage shows to leave watching while I do the dishes, but I wouldn't be paying Netflix money if they didn't supply a lot of new content that engages my full attention.

It seems like they're deliberately moving toward a shallower understanding of why people watch.

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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by jjoonathan on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:42PM (#17789892)
Of course they do, but the post you replied to did not accuse them of ignorance.
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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by scarface74 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:46PM (#17789919)
Netflix's bigger problem is that much of its content looks good on the surface, but on closer inspection is not worth the time.

What’s not “worth the time” to one person doesn’t matter. Netflix has enough aggregate data to know what type of content keeps people on versus how much it costs to acquire the content.

The only content that would be “junk” to Netflix is content that doesn’t engage enough viewers to keep down churn.

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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by tomrod on Saturday August 18, 2018 @03:04PM (#17790034)
One problem may be inability to fully articulate genre enjoyment segmentation relative to classification , so that aggregate moves result in a worse results overall.
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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by tedunangst on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:30PM (#17790480)
Not everyone will stop watching a bad movie midway through, even if they don't like it.
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