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Re:Turning Off Autoplaying Previews by ajkjk on Thursday February 06, 2020 @04:59PM (#22260856)
I suspect there was a really good justification for this that they can't directly share with us. These sort of decisions tend to be like that.

Probably getting rid of recommendations led to some massive increase in viewership that couldn't be ignored.

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Re:Turning Off Autoplaying Previews by ehsankia on Thursday February 06, 2020 @05:02PM (#22260884)
One person probably rated a movie they hated 1 star, whereas someone else rated it 3 star or 4 star. The inconsistency makes it hard to build a model that works for everyone. Also, the current one technically has 3 state, down, up and no vote. That's much more explicit and easy to build a model around.
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