Netflix Gets Rid of All User Reviews
The days of posting and reading user reviews on Netflix are over. As of Friday, the streaming [...]
Pouring one out for user reviews
prevnextpouring one out for netflix user reviews and another terrible loss in the Free Marketplace of Ideas™ pic.twitter.com/ZPRgo7AgB7
— Jeneral Kenobi! (@Niwannabe) August 18, 2018
Blame the algorithm
prevnext@Netflix removes user reviews and then adds playing ads for their stuff during your binges. Maybe if the interface was designed to help find stuff you wanted instead of "magic algorithms", we wouldn't need ads to know about the content we want.
— Jordan Gammey (@jordanclock) August 18, 2018
But why?
prevnext...did netflix remove all user reviews? so if i'm on the fence about a movie i have to go to another website and search for reviews myself?? WHY REMOVE THAT FEATURE??
— kat o'keeffe (@kat_tastic) August 15, 2018
Ridiculous
prevnextAbsolutely ridiculous @netflix got rid of user reviews. What horse shit. Now Amazon is better, and they have shittier content.
— Dank Democracy (@Dank_Democracy) August 16, 2018
Covering up for poorly-reviewed shows?
prevnextHeyyy Netflix no longer shows user reviews! A few days ago, I noticed they had been hidden for its new show Insatiable, presumably because they were all so negative, and now there is nary a scrap of praise or criticism to be heard anywhere—just the drone of the autoplay promos ?
— Robin Sloan (@robinsloan) August 16, 2018
Bad for business
prevnextOh dear. I guess if there is a possibility that people may say exactly what they think about what they watch, then it could be bad for Netflix business.
— PulpKult (@PulpKult) August 17, 2018
Netflix Kills User Reviews https://t.co/oDDsgQg1Pb
There's always IMDb
prevNetflix user reviews might be gone, but at least we still have user submitted IMDB keywords.
— Harry (@LACordCutter) August 17, 2018