[nomel]

For me, the most useful feature of Netflix is the custom ratings it provides. They're almost always absolutely spot on, with the exception of "Netflix Originals" which seem to be bumped up a bit.

I'm curious why something like IMDB is useful for people. I would much rather get a metric related to what I, personally, might like, rather than what the majority likes.

[alanbernstein]

Say you chose to share a single profile with your SO/family/household, for whatever reason. Then Netflix's ratings would be for a nonexistent aggregate person that is a combination of the tastes of all those people, weighted by the relative frequency of use and/or rating actions. This could be significantly less useful than what you as an individual see on your own account.

[carlosdp]

Netflix doesn't even provide ratings anymore. It provides "match percentages," which are trying to predict how well it matches your preferences, not the overall quality.

[pizza]

I find that more often than not just going for the high match percentage content is a pleasant enough experience. I think if I relied upon other people's reviews (a la Rotten Tomatoes or Metacritic) I would have missed out on a lot of stuff that I genuinely liked that others widely panned.

[radicalriddler]

I would much rather get a metric related to what I, personally, can evaluate as more likely being good, rather than what Netflix thinks I might like.