# How many Netflix things have you rated? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [September 22, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658 "2010-09-22T16:00:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/1 "2010-09-22T16:00:50Z")
[http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110764/extreme-netflix-some-users-have-rated-50000-movies](http://finance.yahoo.com/family-home/article/110764/extreme-netflix-some-users-have-rated-50000-movies) 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.” ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/2 "2010-09-22T16:03:33Z")
1. Didn’t realize that was “extreme.” ---
**Author:** ![filling\_pages](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b9bd4f/32.png) [@filling\_pages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/filling_pages)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/3 "2010-09-22T16:21:08Z")
I’m at 1265. I need to step it up! ---
**Author:** ![Caridwen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c89c15/32.png) [@Caridwen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Caridwen)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/4 "2010-09-22T16:26:24Z")
I’m a slacker. 828. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/5 "2010-09-22T16:31:50Z")
Ha! 490. And I thought that was a lot. ---
**Author:** ![Peremensoe](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ce7236/32.png) [@Peremensoe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peremensoe)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/6 "2010-09-22T16:36:11Z")
489, but I only rated items I’d seen during the Netflix subscription, and all ratings were made while the film was very fresh in mind. ---
**Author:** ![Disheavel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Disheavel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disheavel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 5:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/7 "2010-09-22T17:24:03Z")
300, but only netflixing for 2 months. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/8 "2010-09-22T17:28:17Z")
1,083. Probably kind of low. ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/9 "2010-09-22T17:36:59Z")
630 I don’t rate even the ones I get from Netflix. ---
**Author:** ![Stormcrow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/0ea827/32.png) [@Stormcrow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stormcrow)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/10 "2010-09-22T18:28:45Z")
383 - I’ve only been a subscriber for a few months. Most of that is stuf I’ve seen before I joined, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![gwendee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/35a633/32.png) [@gwendee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gwendee)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/11 "2010-09-22T18:54:54Z")
1682 since signing up in 2000. ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/12 "2010-09-22T18:55:25Z")
266 after a couple of years. It never returns anything useful to me anyway so I largely don’t bother. ---
**Author:** ![Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a88e4f/32.png) [@Eleanor\_of\_Aquitaine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eleanor_of_Aquitaine)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 7:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/13 "2010-09-22T19:03:41Z")
I’ve rated 1151 movies/shows. I really miss the Netflix Friends feature, where you could pull up a movie and see the ratings and reviews your friends gave it. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 7:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/14 "2010-09-22T19:09:58Z")
I dunno … 5? ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/15 "2010-09-22T19:24:39Z")
Only 843 but it feels like a lot more! I could probably beef it up a lot if I went through their TV DVDs, but I don’t need TV recommendations from them anyway. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 7:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/16 "2010-09-22T19:38:44Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![a35362](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3da27b/32.png) [@a35362](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/a35362)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 7:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/17 "2010-09-22T19:40:19Z")
Nope, I was low: 4,701. What do I win? 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Fretful\_Porpentine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fretful_porpentine/32/2873_2.png) [@Fretful\_Porpentine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fretful_Porpentine)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/18 "2010-09-22T20:00:17Z")
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. ---
**Author:** ![twickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ec9cab/32.png) [@twickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/twickster)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/19 "2010-09-22T20:08:43Z")
> [@a35362](#): > > I tend to mark a lot of stuff “Not Interested,” and they count that as a rating too … . Ah. That explains it. I thought 3004 seemed a wee bit high. ---
**Author:** ![otternell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecc23a/32.png) [@otternell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/otternell)\ **Post date:** [September 22, 2010, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658/20 "2010-09-22T20:59:20Z")
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. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-netflix-things-have-you-rated/554658.md?page=2)