Reviewer Rank

What categories are included in determining the Reviewer Rank and how are they used?

Here's a group that I created for this purpose:

Keeping Up With the Top Reviewers Ranking As of April 1st, 2008 - 70 Members.

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Permalink Reply by photo heathen on February 10, 2008 at 7:03pm: According to the help pages...

"We calculate this rank with a complicated algorithm that takes a number of factors into account: perhaps the biggest chunk is simply how many movies you have reviewed. If you write reviews you probably have more influence on others than if you don't. If you use the Friends features you influence others, and more Friends tends to give you more influence. But it's not this simple. Bad reviews don't give you much (or any) influence. Writing reviews on movies with tons of reviews already also doesn't help that much -- so WHAT you review and that you write good reviews has more weight than sheer volume. (Writing a great review on a movie with very few reviews is a very good thing.)

"Little things help in small ways: having an avatar image helps, as does having a personalized nickname. Having lots of movie ratings helps, but not alone -- it only helps if you have Friends or Reviews such that people look at your ratings. If people save you as a “Favorite”, that helps as much as having Friends. The fact that other people click on your avatar and check out your other reviews is very important. These page views go into the calculation. The more people check you out, the more influence you'd have. And very heavily weighed is when other people actually add movies to their Queues from your pages, or from your custom “Top 10” lists. But the real influence value comes when other people not only add movies to their Queues, but when those movies actually get shipped to a member. That’s the highest factor in the ranking calculation."; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on February 10, 2008 at 7:19pm: Thank you. This sure does help. So the #1 way is to add a movie from another's list and have it shipped.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by photo heathen on February 10, 2008 at 7:29pm: Well, I'm not sure. There's conflicting information there.

"perhaps the biggest chunk is simply how many movies you have reviewed."

followed by...

"But the real influence value comes when other people not only add movies to their Queues, but when those movies actually get shipped to a member. That’s the highest factor in the ranking calculation."

So, either one or the other is the most important, but to me it's unclear which it is.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on February 10, 2008 at 7:30pm: I suppose they are both strong.

Also, I started adding as faves, all reviewers that are rated higher (lower #) than me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by RJP on February 29, 2008 at 11:30am: In my experience, the biggest factor is how many movies you reviewed. Why? I didn't even know a review ranking existed, let alone what it meant, until early January this year. Back in early January my rank was 24, it's currently 32. You see I didn't do Friends and Community, so I had no Friends, no Favs, no Lists, no nothing, just a whole lot of reviews. So number of reviews must be the dominate variable in the Netflix computational algorithm.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JB on March 30, 2008 at 1:23pm: Interesting, RJP. Recently my reviewer ranking fell from around #532 (I worked hard to get there!) to #3200 in a little over a month without much of a change in my reviewing habits (I tend to write them in bursts). I also don't bother with lists, friends, or faves. It took me months to reach a respectable top 600, and then a total collapse in a matter of weeks? For all of its algorithmic complexity, the Netflix system of ranking reviewers seems rather arbitrary.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Pihk on March 30, 2008 at 1:43pm: Is there any kind of prize or reward or discount for being in the top 1000? 100? 10? Or for being the top enchilada? What's the motivation?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by B-Independent.com on March 30, 2008 at 2:39pm: What's the motivation?

Beats me. All the focus on the top 25 when i first joined is why i almost gave up on this community as it came across as a bit of a circle jerk. The more people that are on here, with lower rankings, have fortunately helped it push away from that mentality. I rate and review movies because I love movies and not because I want to be King S#!t on Netflix. If that's somebody's goal, more power to 'em, but that sort of attitude takes the fun out of it for me.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by JB on March 30, 2008 at 4:33pm: I didn't even know I had a reviewer ranking until last year. I had written probably a hundred reviews, and the ranking seemed to be one way to gauge how many people were at least taking a look at them. I'll write reviews anyway because I like doing it, but every once in a while it's nice to know that someone else finds what you've written worth their time. The rest is just idle speculation.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Max Hops on March 31, 2008 at 8:59pm: We give Netflix free data and content, Netflix give us a ranking. It's human nature to be ranked higher than others. They can use that data to rent more movies and make more money and maybe stay competitive and keep prices downs so maybe we all win.

I write a few netflix reviews for kicks, but if I wanted to really review a lot of movies in depth and put effort in it I would do it on my own movie review site and bring in other movie freaks like the members here to contribute for free - I would even give them a ranking for their hard work. Maybe even give them stars as top reviewers....

The easiest way to make money on the Internet is to have others create free content (like we do here) to sell ads on. See Google and eBay ads above to the side. It's how the web works. I have content sites that people submit content to every day. So much free content I can't keep up. They get their article and a link to their website, I get content a few $100 a day per website in Adsense revenue from the clicks on the ads on the content they gave me - plus a house and a high end home entertainment center.

Pure genius.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on March 30, 2008 at 5:12pm: What's the motivation?

The reason I want to know who they are, is simply for the interest, who moved up etc. Also, you can gain a lot from those who are the top 25 or so; they are probably the ones with a lot of (helpful) reviews, high amount of rated movie titles and with the lists, don't get me started on that hehe, but seriously, the lists also help other members in finding titles that may interest them.

For all those interested, you can join the group I started that is titled Keeping Up With the Top Reviewers Ranking. Total Group Members: 57

You can promote your lists, view tips on what helps to make a good review, see who the top 25 each week are and more.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by DK Photog on March 30, 2008 at 9:41pm: Thanks Wowwee, that's a great group to join, and I've learned lots of valuable information from the threads.

In determining the Reviewer Rank, I've found that writing notes to friends is a great way to get them to add a movie to their queue. I help out my friends by reading their notes and reviews and if I sincerely like what they suggested I add them to my queue (and have them shipped home as well) It's a win/win.

I feel that once I went from 650,000 to 23,000 in rank I became like a crack addict for Netflix and was a little high off the "success" - in a way it started to take away from my enjoyment of writing notes and reviews just to connect and share. So I still consider my ranking and want to improve it but I am mentally trying to have FUN with it still, as well!; ▶ Reply to This