[gameswithgo]

Netflix suggestions used to be amazing, but sometime after their contest they totally changed how it works and they became useless. This article maybe hints at why with a short “predicting consumption was more important than ratings anyway”

why? what does he mean? netflix had a killer advantage with the old rating system and then dumped it why?

[blowski]

There's a subtle but valuable (for Netflix) difference between "you watched x so you'll probably like y" vs "if we can get you to start watching this show you'll probably pay another month's subscription".