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by ghaff 3222 days ago
Which, in practice, tends to devolve to what's effectively a four-star rating of some sort: Want two hours of my life back, OK/meh, Good, Excellent

A humorous take: https://xkcd.com/1098/

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But my point is that for me, it didn't. Netflix's system was good enough to take into account that people have different systems. Thus when Netflix says "we predict you'll give this 3 stars", that means it was a movie I would like. That might mean you gave it 4 stars or 2 stars or whatever, even though you liked it as much as me. They made my system the only one that matters, as long as I was consistent. Reviews in aggregate are pretty much meaningless, but a good system weighs that problem in.