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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by ghaff on Saturday August 18, 2018 @02:41PM (#17789882)
I can believe that's all true. So people now primarily consume the content through interfaces that inherently would make it difficult to interact with reviews. (And I suspect if they did pop up a box asking you to add a review after you watched something that would really annoy everyone.)

In a lot of ways, the user reviews are mostly a vestige of when people used them while adding DVDs to their queue.

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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by mygo on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:25PM (#17790459)
They didn’t have it in the UI. There is nothing inherently difficult about browsing reviews on a mobile device. Millions do it every time they’re about to download an app. There is no option to read reviews given to effectively 85% of their viewers. That was their design decision. And now they’re citing review usage numbers when their design decisions promoted low review usage numbers. They’re providing a circular argument which implies that it is not the main reason.
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Re:Netflix Has Deleted Every User Review Ever Posted to Its ... by Dylan16807 on Saturday August 18, 2018 @04:39PM (#17790526)
It's not at all hard to "interact with" reviews on mobile or with a remote.

Talking about a popup is a non sequitur, it's not like the web site does that.

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