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They don't want you knowing what other people think of the video. It's just about what you think of the video. Much easier to have an algorithmically perfect echo chamber if everyone is privately rating things and has no idea what others think about them.

It's all bots anyway

The thumbs up/thumbs down thing was fine too.

I'm pretty sure that 99% of the time 1 and 5 stars options were used, so like/dislike is enough. There isn't much point in including a "I have no strong feelings one way or another" button.

"Oh man, I remember those days when the stars actually meant something! Now they're just trying to push their own agenda on us."

“Amy Schumer isn’t hated by Netflix users. It’s the star system that’s wrong. “

The thing is, people themselves outside of business motives hate negativity.

People regularly get angry at others for bringing up criticisms of everything from foods to their favourite media products.

Even decades ago they'd give them names like negative Nancy, and within social settings the worst people often can win by weaponizing civility to quell legitimate backlash against immoral actions.

I mean, fuck, think about how many stories you've heard of people who have been the victims of sexual assault, who get told by normal people to shut up and whose experiences were diminished because it harshed other peoples mellow?

People suck, and one of the biggest reasons people suck, is they would prefer a harmful peaceful positivity than a tumultuous improvement causing negativity.

I think these companies are hooking into these human flaws in ways that hurt us, and benefit them with information asymmetry.

I don't think we can properly fix these flaws without somehow getting normal people to acknowledge that negativity is not just good, but vitally important.

Hate it. Gave my employer a bad review, 1-2 stars in most categories, and the average was still a 3.7?? I have to adjust my intuition when reading star reviews. Apparently 3.5 is bottom of the barrel.

I know I am not alone here, because Lemmy and all, but holy god damn does that little AI sparkle trigger me more than any other AI term or image.

I'm pretty sure it never was different tho I usually use a plugin that shows thumbs-downs. It's basically guessing for new videos so it's not really useful but still

I thought it never left? They just didn't show the number of dislikes to anyone other than the channel who made the video (without plugins, revanced etc).

I do not know why to use Netflix in the first place if you can simply visit free streaming platforms like HDREZKA, watch a few ads and then enjoy your film. Yeah, ads can be annoying sometimes but, at least, all is free, content doesn't get removed simply because of it is no longer watched actively and no forced registration. And they also provide some useful features like the personal lists, collections, different sound records, history of publication for series and even the approximate schedule for the upcoming series which is really useful.

I disagree. There are a lot of videos that I find just "meh". I might not regret watching them, but wouldn't recommend them nor watch again.
Then there is content which I find pretty good/bad but not extremely good or bad. For such cases a more nuanced scale is better.

For other users this might be less informative, since they will be seeing just the average anyway and can therefore only determine general perception; except if the distribution is also made available.

But for a personalized recommendation system I think a nuanced scale can work better.

From a content creators perspective one can also evaluate better whether there is room for improvement and by "how much", in case one is interested in such.