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by dave5104 2305 days ago
Seems the trouble is that, in addition to their award nominated material, Netflix also produces a lot of low quality content tailored to niche viewer personas. I wonder if they've ever considered whether or not that hurts their brand more than it helps, or if it's helping more than it hurts?
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derefr 2305 days ago
Why would you care if you don’t watch it? My grocery store sells food I don’t like, along with the food I do; does that hurt its brand?
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prostheticvamp 2305 days ago
It makes good things I watch and enjoy. (Net value to me >> 0 )

It makes bad niche things I watch and mostly enjoy. ( Net value to me > 0)

It makes bad other-niche things I never have watched and rarely show up in my recommendations. (Net value to me = 0, +/- the tiny negative of rarely having to /browse past it/).

You’re arguing the negative of 3 is so large that it overwhelms 2, so much so that it subtracts from the value of 1, if I’ve understood you correctly.

I don’t find 3 that big a problem. What I find problematic is /how it identifies 2/.

“Oh, you watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer? Here’s a list of every shitty movie we ever found that had a teenage girl OR a vampire in it.”

It seems to have a very rough idea of tags, and then just show me everything with similar tags. Except the tags only rarely capture what I found attractive in the first place, and “shitty vampire movie” doesn’t do anything for me if my attraction was “witty coming of age series with supernatural overtones”.

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