| I think we all have personal preferences; for example: If I watched a movie and gave it a thumbs down, don't recommend it I sometimes click thumbs down by accident, or upon rewatching change my opinion. If I watched a movie < 1 month ago, don't recommend it I like to rewatch movies, sometimes more than once in a month. If I browsed over a movie 50 times, read the info, and still didn't play it, stop recommending it. I have a terrible habit of browsing Netflix and watching trailers right before falling asleep, and I'm sure I've done this to the same titles over and over again. If I watched the last episode, remove the "new episodes" banner. I'm not in front of Netflix right now; what happens if new episodes are added while you're watching the series? |
It's also trivial to put all of the things you watched recently into their own subcategory in case you want to watch them again, which is in fact something that Netflix already does. It's called "Watch It Again". There's no reason to pollute recommendations for that.
> I sometimes click thumbs down by accident
The recommendation engine should be obeying your explicit actions, not trying to subvert them. Accidentally clicking thumbs down is an outlier action that is trivial for you to rectify on your own as soon as it happens.
> or upon rewatching change my opinion.
Intentionally rewatching a movie that you expressly disliked is an outlier position.
> I like to rewatch movies, sometimes more than once in a month.
Netflix already has a personal queue+favorites list called "My List" that you can add things to. If it has been less than a month since you last watched something, the reason you're watching it again so soon is because it's on your mind already and you don't need the recommendation engine for that.