The streaming service began notifying members who’ve used the feature recently that they will no longer be able to write reviews by the end of July. Come August, the reviews will disappear altogether.
“This feature is only offered on the website and has seen declining usage over time,” Netflix said in a statement explaining its decision, which was first reported by the tech news site Cnet.
The service previously offered a star system to rate programs from one to five stars. It retired that rating system and replaced it in April 2017 with a simpler thumbs-up or thumbs-down button which Netflix uses to refine its personalized recommendations.
“Netflix has had star ratings for much of our history, but we’ve learned through over a year of testing that while we’ve used stars to help you personalize your suggestions, many of our members are confused about what they do,” the company said in a blog post announcing the change. “In contrast, when people see thumbs, they know that they are used to teach the system about their tastes with the goal of finding more great content.”
It’s not like there’s a dearth of reviews for Netflix’s shows online or through traditional media outlets. Still, the decision produced a modest backlash on social media among armchair critics.
It's like people got tired of all the fucking propaganda being shoveled and decided to speak up about it. Can't have that. Why make shekels publishing shit they actually want to see when you can lose shekels publishing crap they don't. Oy! They really should have stuck to pandering to the right, at least they had money to blow.
What i hear is a business opportunity. Make a webpage that allows users to rate netflix videos independent of Netflix control. Easy solved. It's probably already out there.
Normalfags are so fucking stupid it's unbelievable. No joke.
Cameron Sanders
imdb was the first shot in this war when they removed their user forums, which contained 15+ years of reviews, info, trivia, critiques, lists, etc., and wouldn't even archive it. we don't get to review their movies.
Ryder Diaz
Fuck off Netflix. Your time is coming. Tick tock bitch.
And to say I've put my reviewing website on the side to go back to my other project, I definitely need more time to do everything I want.
Grayson Price
Well, that will stop people from rating movies, right there.
Jayden Thomas
I got rid of Netflix when Dear White People came out and we had the big push back then for everyone to cancel their accounts. I'm glad I did, it's a big waste of time. I got zero work done, my sleep was fucked up, you just become a TV zombie.
So when I did use it, the ratings system was actually useful. Think like Amazon's product reviews. You could tell by which ones were honest/truthful and get a general feel if you would like it or not.
They "downvoted" a lot of super illogical, political, ideological and bad content. Netflix wants you to be a little zombie and eat up all their hours of programming, you won't be able to do that if your fellow users are telling you half of it isn't worth your time.
What better way to sneak in more zog bullshit like Dear White People if no one is around to tell you it sucks. Would you buy something from Amazon with reviews disabled? I sure wouldn't. Cancel Netflix if you haven't already.
I didn't make the image you fucking retarded nigger.
John Lee
...
Grayson Cruz
Does rottentomatoes still have their user forums? I used to post on them when I was a young lad around 2003
Wyatt Lewis
are you trying to be retarded? it's working.
Julian Anderson
CHEGGED 4 TRUTHS
John Peterson
What rifle is that? I want it.
Aiden Lopez
Fuck off, degenerate.
Lincoln Garcia
Curse zion. Or you're a kike.
Caleb Cox
I've only been compelled to leave a review a few times. One was nigger Troy, and everything else was marxist, anti-white propaganda as well. To my surprise loads of reviewers are like me. There's your reason why the feature is going away.
Joseph Jackson
The people must be heard. New platforms will spring up. 8^)
Nicholas Nguyen
Rotten Tomatoes forums (as in "General Discussion", "Off Topic", the gaming ones, etc…) were killed off last year, although you can still comment on individual movie/TV show pages. For now.
Jaxson Martinez
...
Liam Young
Ah, Nassim, our global community guide.
Colton Morales
Remember, one of Obamas cabinet members is on the board for Netflix now and they do contract work with Obama and Micheal.
Wyatt Rivera
That seems to be a common theme. Cancel your shitflix subscriptions you cattle.
Chase Cook
Dragon ball series shockingly redpill.
Xavier Jenkins
It's actually amusing to see this, because it shows their efforts to socially engineer people into watching specific content is failing horrendously.
Also understanding user context is crucial, to make effective algorithm based predictions to keep people addicted to their platform. Without direct user feedback, their algorithms will become less reliable in tailoring content for users to maximize that effect. That means risking over-saturation, neglect or agitation from poor recommendations, prompting users to consider other platforms.
Daniel Nguyen
Are you trying to defame Zig Forums? Are you JIDF? They do that constantly.
If not, why do you present it like that? Discussing molotovs for scientific purposes I guess it would be ok, but promoting terrorism is not. We at Zig Forums are not terrorists.
Hunter Morgan
Who the fuck cares? If there were anything on Jewflix worth watching you could easily torrent it.
Charles Taylor
Votoms is cool.
Tyler Kelly
We do. It's useful info on how our enemies work. We need to know their moves and tactics.
Carter Wright
Calm down torposter.
Nothing on an imageboard should be taken as fact. Only fools do that.
Matthew Morgan
this has nothing to do with us downvoting material that pushes the leftist agenda
Gabriel Thompson
I never used Netflix but my fairly redpilled boomer dad recently canceled his subscription. He said one of the features that set Netflix apart (in the beginning) were the user reviews. He said they were usually pretty spot on.
Parker Jackson
Why would any self respecting person have Netflix these days?
Lincoln Russell
To be fair, the majority of the posts on their user forums were 'Doesn't X look just like Y?' (when X looks nothing like Y)
Daniel Taylor
If only she'd actually shot somebody in the face
Nathan Turner
When you ask for a woman and she comes out as being XY instead of XX like she should be.
I prefer my threesomes to be XXXXXY in nature.
Brayden Nelson
Pick one. When will you weebs stop giving everything a free pass just because japan made it and you've been conditioned to think jap degeneracy is ok while every other kind is ropeable?
James Adams
Hilarious
Nicholas Long
Every time a site removes comments for wrong think, the first thing they do is claim is was an underused feature.
It got used less when they killed the star rating system. But people still review shit.
John Bell
you have to go back
Caleb Rivera
This is how i can tell you're new to all of chan culture. Adding '-tard' to board names trying to fit in is the oldest mistake of the newfag.
Kevin Torres
80's and 90's anime is okay. Today's anime is made for manchildren and everyone who's into moeshit deserves the rope.
Brandon Sullivan
I have it for while, they removed all the cool stuff and put kikes beginning me to kill myself in the place. Why people would want to pay for that?
Carter Campbell
You can't do it, can you? You can't see your own cognitive dissonance. You'll screech at some faggot for liking mlp when he calls it a redpilled show but defend even child pornography to the ends of the earth if some japanese man drew and/or animated it.
Hunter Morgan
If what you're looking for is pre-2000 art style, then yes. But there's plenty of great anime. Made in Abyss was pretty neat and recent.
Jee. It's like, not only you want to entrap people, you want them to look really stupid as well.
Women accidentally make better molotovs doing their nails.
John Robinson
Holy shit why would you do that to a beautiful No4 Rifle
Zachary Long
I think it looks handy, Satan.
Adrian Evans
Anyone on this board who still watches and/or pays for jewflix needs to leave immediately.
Jackson Long
The film industry is inherently cucked, but if people are going to watch films, they should at least watch something masculine and interesting. Your pet Japs aren't infallible btw, Miyazaki loves to shoehorn in feminist anti-war tripe, and he's not alone. Anime has had faggots making pacifist garbage since its inception, and they don't mind attacking the Nazis either. There's some good anime, just stop sucking their dick.
Ian Barnes
the deleted forums on imdb have almost all been copied on moviechat.org/ and the comments are quite active and redpilled
Mason Lopez
If it is redpilled I am not seeing it anywhere.
Colton James
lmfao fucking non-white retards mean reasonable things like 1-5 rankings are too complicated
Parker Reed
Outside some of few localized anime at the time you could say the same thing about the pre 2000 anime which was just as ranchy if not worse due to lack of regulations. This whole 80s anime had no fanservice meme came from a warp perception due to the accessibility of anime from the 80s-90s to now. The only thing that really changed over the years was the art style and the fact that the medium is mostly used to advertise whatever light novel, manga, game, etc. the original source is.
Daniel Peterson
But doesn't it depend upon whether or not boomers feel that violence constitutes pornography? After all, the law is but suggestions of no concern to the boomer-kike courts, which elect for themselves as they please to increase or decrease the application of any law, so that anything may become either made safe or lose protection, or be attacked or lose danger, that by the invention of subcategories never validated by the original text.
