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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by fighterpilot on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @03:56AM (#27758532)
The most annoying thing about these streaming platforms is no IMDB rating being displayed. I have to type in every suggestion one by one which is annoying, or use a third party search engine. It'd be such a huge UX boost to simply include the rating, and better yet allow filtering by rating, I really don't get it. Perhaps they're trying to build network effects around their own rating system but it really detracts from the UX.
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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by SiempreViernes on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @05:01AM (#27758945)
Maybe it's because filtering by rating would expose how shallow the catalogue is?

At least in my locale a good way to be reminded of this is searching for any movie you'd like to watch but isn't on the front page of netflix, typically they won't have it.

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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by RobertoG on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @06:03AM (#27759337)
I think you are right. My impression is that all the UI is dedicated to fool the user perception of the catalog, to make it look better than it is.
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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by gustavorg on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @07:41AM (#27759912)
They made a change at some point (2017?) so as not to show movie ratings. I figured the reason was to give low rated movies a chance because I won't necessarily dislike a movie with IMDB rating 5.2/10. I've seen excellent movies with rating < 6.0 and lousy movies with rating > 7.5 It's just that my taste sometimes doesn't match with IMBD users.
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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by michaelt on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @04:58AM (#27758914)
> I really don't get it

Presumably poorly rated movies are a lot cheaper to license; and when you're licensing 2/10 rated movies, user satisfaction is a lot higher if you don't show the ratings.

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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by computerphage on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @04:28AM (#27758739)
IMDb is owned by Amazon. Amazon Prime shows IMDb ratings in its app.
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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by rajasimon on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @06:18AM (#27759404)
They display IMDB rating only for some titles and it has to pass certain level of rating ( 6 +)
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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by fighterpilot on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @06:26AM (#27759434)
And at least when I'm on it through my browser, I need to actually click on the title to see the rating, which makes it difficult to use it to filter out junk quickly.
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Re:How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix? by vimy on Wednesday July 07, 2021 @06:30AM (#27759451)
You can add IMDB ratings with extensions. https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/trim-imdb-ratings-...
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