Post by The Mad Plumber on Oct 19, 2014 2:02:07 GMT -5
There was a single question I was considering posting in the general "Movie Help" thread. Given there's a little more I want to ponder on, I'll start a new thread and open with my intended question:
On Netflix, which is effectively a worse rating: "one star" or "not interested"?
When I started my Netflix account, I was considerably annoyed that The Hunger Games was persisting at the top of my feed, in spite of my rating for it as I just didn't care for the movie. I didn't hate the movie, but I didn't want to watch it again. Supposedly, I must have given it a two-star rating to reflect this. When I saw that The Hunger Games was still in my feed, I bumped the rating down to one star. It was still in my feed. I ultimately hit it with the "not interested" rating (which you can only apply on the website, not through my Roku). Eventually, The Hunger Games disappeared from my feed and, in time, the feed started resembling my sensibilities.
By my observation, two-star ratings are the minimum for killing a title from your feed. I've given the rating to a few titles, namely Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures and Tron Uprising. At times, it feels a little extreme that I've completely killed Tron Uprising from my viewing feed. However, I need to remind myself that isn't anything of real substance that warrants viewing it again.
However, I've also given two-star ratings to Sekirei and Girls Bravo. For these, I feel a little more conflicted. I can justify my ratings per the fact that I don't particularly enjoy these titles very much and that I already have them on DVD. However, I worry that I send Netflix the message that I don't care for the genre that these titles belong to.
Maybe I shouldn't worry about that. As it is, Netflix still has not gotten the message that I do not want reality television shows in my feed. Yet, no matter how many of these shows I've given one-star ratings to, like roaches they end up cropping up again. I even see that I've given "I'm never interested in watching" ratings to the sub-genres of Extreme Reality TV Shows and Reality Programming, but it seems to have done nothing. I don't get it.
So, back to my original question: which is a more useful rating in killing titles from your feed? One reason I ask is because I cannot rate titles "not interested" on the Roku, which is the primary medium through which I will use Netflix. A second reason is that, if something was rated as "not interested" on Netflix's website, it will not display any rating should you look it up on the Roku.
The problem I have with star ratings on Netflix, the Roku in general, and even websites like IMDb is that they are not used in the way I feel they should be. First off, these systems all have a lowest rating of one star. My opinion is that a star system should have a lowest rating of zero stars (or a bomb if that's easier to comprehend). The way I look at stars is in terms of preference. Thus, the way one star should be interpreted is that the user still has a remote preference of watching the title or at least is not opposed to watching. It's kind of like my iPod, where if anything really registered lower than one star for me, it wouldn't even be on my iPod.
Thus, with Netflix, I rate based on preference, not on some sort of system where I feel like I'm grading it critically. Films like House II and Wayne's World get my highest ratings because they're the films that I like the most and prefer to watch the most. I question the point of having both one-star and two-star ratings given that both effectively kill titles from my Roku feed. Maybe since I'm not totally opposed to watching Sekirei and Girls Bravo, maybe I should reevaluate how I've rated them.
I'll conclude with a final note. There was a time I was interested in watching Attack on Titan. Here's a curious thing, though. In the margin of the page for Attack on Titan, Netflix denotes, "Recommended based on your interest in Red vs. Blue". That struck me as a truly bizarre thing to tell me, because I gave Red vs. Blue a one-star rating. Why does Netflix claim that I'm interested in Red vs. Blue?
On Netflix, which is effectively a worse rating: "one star" or "not interested"?
When I started my Netflix account, I was considerably annoyed that The Hunger Games was persisting at the top of my feed, in spite of my rating for it as I just didn't care for the movie. I didn't hate the movie, but I didn't want to watch it again. Supposedly, I must have given it a two-star rating to reflect this. When I saw that The Hunger Games was still in my feed, I bumped the rating down to one star. It was still in my feed. I ultimately hit it with the "not interested" rating (which you can only apply on the website, not through my Roku). Eventually, The Hunger Games disappeared from my feed and, in time, the feed started resembling my sensibilities.
By my observation, two-star ratings are the minimum for killing a title from your feed. I've given the rating to a few titles, namely Pac-Man and the Ghostly Adventures and Tron Uprising. At times, it feels a little extreme that I've completely killed Tron Uprising from my viewing feed. However, I need to remind myself that isn't anything of real substance that warrants viewing it again.
However, I've also given two-star ratings to Sekirei and Girls Bravo. For these, I feel a little more conflicted. I can justify my ratings per the fact that I don't particularly enjoy these titles very much and that I already have them on DVD. However, I worry that I send Netflix the message that I don't care for the genre that these titles belong to.
Maybe I shouldn't worry about that. As it is, Netflix still has not gotten the message that I do not want reality television shows in my feed. Yet, no matter how many of these shows I've given one-star ratings to, like roaches they end up cropping up again. I even see that I've given "I'm never interested in watching" ratings to the sub-genres of Extreme Reality TV Shows and Reality Programming, but it seems to have done nothing. I don't get it.
So, back to my original question: which is a more useful rating in killing titles from your feed? One reason I ask is because I cannot rate titles "not interested" on the Roku, which is the primary medium through which I will use Netflix. A second reason is that, if something was rated as "not interested" on Netflix's website, it will not display any rating should you look it up on the Roku.
The problem I have with star ratings on Netflix, the Roku in general, and even websites like IMDb is that they are not used in the way I feel they should be. First off, these systems all have a lowest rating of one star. My opinion is that a star system should have a lowest rating of zero stars (or a bomb if that's easier to comprehend). The way I look at stars is in terms of preference. Thus, the way one star should be interpreted is that the user still has a remote preference of watching the title or at least is not opposed to watching. It's kind of like my iPod, where if anything really registered lower than one star for me, it wouldn't even be on my iPod.
Thus, with Netflix, I rate based on preference, not on some sort of system where I feel like I'm grading it critically. Films like House II and Wayne's World get my highest ratings because they're the films that I like the most and prefer to watch the most. I question the point of having both one-star and two-star ratings given that both effectively kill titles from my Roku feed. Maybe since I'm not totally opposed to watching Sekirei and Girls Bravo, maybe I should reevaluate how I've rated them.
I'll conclude with a final note. There was a time I was interested in watching Attack on Titan. Here's a curious thing, though. In the margin of the page for Attack on Titan, Netflix denotes, "Recommended based on your interest in Red vs. Blue". That struck me as a truly bizarre thing to tell me, because I gave Red vs. Blue a one-star rating. Why does Netflix claim that I'm interested in Red vs. Blue?
