SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
At Netflix, the stars are out.
Not movie stars, per se, but rather the streaming service's system for rating the programs they watched with one to five stars. Instead, users will soon be able to express their level of enjoyment with a thumbs up for favorable or a thumbs down for unfavorable.
"Five stars feels very yesterday now," Todd Yellin, Netflix's vice president of product innovation, told a group of journalists at the company's Los Gatos headquarters on Thursday. That system "really projects what you think you want to tell the world. But we want to move to a system where it's really clear, when members rate, that it's for them, and to keep on making the Netflix experience better and better."
The company had beta tested the Facebook-like system with hundreds of thousands of new users around the world last year, finding that more than 200 percent more ratings were logged with the thumb system than the star system.
They should make it fun. Use the 5 💩 rating system instead. Or perhaps a whole suite of symbols for a more fine-grained response. Any suggestions?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 19 2017, @04:29PM
It doesn't really make reviews worse unless you were somebody that regularly rated things using all of those stars. I have a feeling that people either weren't using it at all or they were only using some of the stars in most cases. A simple up or down vote is more likely to be used and when analyzed with the other ratings is probably more helpful than the 4 star system where Netflix has no way of knowing what the ratings really mean as people have different standards for what they would consider a particular rating. Some people will rate things as 4 if they enjoyed them and some will only rate them 4 if they consider it to be a masterpiece.
Whereas with an up or down vote, it's much more consistent in assessing what the viewers intent was in giving the rating.