Within the past month or two I went on a jag of rating everything we had rented in the eight years we have been subscribers, after having seen the whole rating thing as a gimmick. Then I went ahead and have spent hours at a whack rating things I’ve seen since childhood but never rented from Netflix. Haven’t even considered rating things I haven’t seen at all. But still I feel I have an impressive number of rated things with over 2,000 (2452 at last count).
I just can’t believe this story! So I’m asking if any of you are in the category of “extreme raters.”
I tend to mark a lot of stuff “Not Interested,” and they count that as a rating too, so between “Not Interested,” stuff I’ve rented or seen in the theater since I joined in 2005, and older ratings from my IMDb account, I’ve got something like 4,000 - 4,500 ratings.
They’ve got a feature where you can rate genres and themes by how often you watch that kind of thing: “Never - Sometimes - Often,” and I find that that helps with recommendations a lot.
Probably fewer than ten. I don’t really enjoy rating things, and it seemed to make their recommendations no more accurate but far less entertaining, so I stopped.
I was good about rating stuff initially, so they wouldn’t recommend total crap, but now . . . meh. I haven’t looked at how many, but I’d be astonished if it was even close to 100.
