Ask HN: feedback on The Great Movie Experiment - an alternative to IMDB star ratings.

Re:Ask HN: feedback on The Great Movie Experiment - an alter... by buugs on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @05:59AM (#519667)

Seems like a really weird way to compare ratings, when you have match ups of childrens movies to horror movies or something along those lines I know I for one cannot compare two movies in separate genres well as you can't base them relatively. Just an opinion of mine, if you compare lets say stuart little to the omen, one person may choose the omen because they don't like animated childrens movies, another may choose stuart little because it made them feel fuzzy or w.e, now if you put the omen against halloween or stuart little against madagascar you get a more truthful comparison.

I guess I'm saying I would like it better if you had like different genres, they don't even have to be that specific like say horror action comedy family; and could compare withing those, but I guess that is limited with your selection right now.

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Re:Ask HN: feedback on The Great Movie Experiment - an alter... by teach on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @01:03PM (#520126)

I agree that comparing movies in different categories this way is awkward.

I think the idea of getting an ordering by pairwise comparisons (instead of discrete scores for each item) is sound, but it doesn't work as well for movies as for people.

pickthehottie.com (launched at least before June 22, 2001, according to the Wayback Machine) did the same thing to AmIHotOrNot's photo-rating juggernaut (launched in October 2000, according to Wikipedia). I think the A-B model worked really well for them, and the incentive for sticking around to compare for photos was a little more intrinsic.

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Re:Ask HN: feedback on The Great Movie Experiment - an alter... by shiro on Tuesday March 17, 2009 @06:33AM (#519705)

Agreed. Too many apple-to-orange comparisons. But categorizing by genres will require some amount of work.

How about having an option "can't compare"? That the user can indicate they saw both but cannot compare. With enough data, maybe you can cluster more frequently compared movies together or even making categories automatically?

(Downside is more complex UI; it's better to keep UI simple, so I'm not sure).

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