n00b here - reviewer rank ?
I searched through here and I may have over looked it... but what exactly determines the rank and if its multiple things... what percentages do the multiple thing weigh in determining the rank?
I started out in the millions, and slowly climbed my way up in the top 20,000 but not sure how i accomplished this
I started out in the millions, and slowly climbed my way up in the top 20,000 but not sure how i accomplished this
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Permalink Reply by beeswax on -
The official NF answer:
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RANK (or “reviewer rank”) is an ordered list of Netflix members whose movie opinions seem to influence other members about the movies they watch.
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.
We will update ranks every week (not daily, like most information on the site), so numbers will drift relatively slowly.
If you really care about these things -- and my advice is to NOT CARE -- then you can read what has worked for other people over here in the Ways to boost your rating thread.
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Permalink Reply by Kristen DJ on -
thanks, that was a lot of good info
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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on -
and my advice is to NOT CARE
I agree, there is NO toaster for the #1 reviewer ranker. If you like reviewing titles, then write them so that it's helpful to people. If you like creating lists, my advice is to make them so that it's helpful for you first, and those who also find it helpful will add titles from those lists and it will help the rank #.
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Permalink Reply by Kristen DJ on
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i dont want to be number 1. i just want to be influential... and im getting what im desiring which is good. my rank is greatly increasing as i create list and write more reviews
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Permalink Reply by wowwee123 on
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Excellent. Keep doing what you find that you're doing best. You can post names of and links to your list over here.
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Permalink Reply by Kristen DJ on
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thanks, that is very helpful. i posted my lists link
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Permalink Reply by Robowriter on -
sounds like "I just want to be famous." rank increases as you list and/or review, yes, but only as people appreciate or benefit from what you do... so make lists for yourself or for others but making lists for ranking alone is a time sink few can afford (and it can become pavlovian). our advice is to not care, just let happen what happens, and concentrate on what helps or makes you happy about watching movies. the journey is its own reward etc.
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Permalink Reply by Kristen DJ on
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ive already achieved my goal really. i think im much more influential and reaching other movie watchers. i had a huge increase form 13,204 to 1,280... so somebody has to be liking my movies
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Permalink Reply by The Professor on -
This is all good advice. The reviewer rank system has evolved greatly since Netflix put it in place, and it has generated a few different kinds of people. There's nothing wrong with wanting to be highly ranked -- nothing at all. The problem comes with what you are willing to do to get there.
Here's where I stand on this -- some of this is copied and pasted from other posts :-)
I saw in a previous post of yours that you said you shouldn't write negative reviews. I disagree. If you don't like a film and still have something thoughtful to say about, then put it into your review! Sure, you might get some unhelpfuls, but that's an area where wanting to be ranked higher shouldn't compromise your integrity as a reviewer.
DO NOT join a review army. These people cultivate giant friend lists that exist solely to click helpful on each other's reviews. Many are members here and actually have tried to convince folks that they read each others reviews, which is a bit insulting to the intelligence. Think about it: If I have 50 friends (or more!) who go through and click helpful on my reviews each week or so, then I have to return the favor by clicking helpful on their reviews in order for the "system" to work. That would mean that each week I have to cycle through my list of 50 friends, one after another, and click helpful on all of their new reviews. Each week! To then come here and try to make people believe that I read all of those reviews and only click helpful on the ones I like is silly and embarrassing for those who claim to do so. These people are the ones who put a date on their reviews, so their friends will know which are the new ones -- after all, how would they know otherwise? They don't read them. Those who do this stuff are the lowest form of life on Netflix. Anyone who clicks helpful (or unhelpful) on a review they haven't read is perverting the spirit of what the reviews are all about. They know this, of course, which is why they insist they actually read them.
DO NOT have IMDB open when you are writing a review. Try writing from the heart and expressing your own thoughts instead! That's not to say checking a fact or two on IMDB isn't helpful, but there are a few top-100 reviewers who use IMDB as a sort of "Cliff's Notes" for review writing. They lift the ideas from IMDB reviewers and repackage them as their own. For the life of me, they fail to see how obvious they are. (I'm a prof though, so my radar for this is pretty finely tuned.)
DO NOT click unhelpful on the reviews of another, unless you've read the reviews and truly think they are not helpful. Those who do this are just as fucked up as the "helpful clickers."
DO NOT make new release lists. No explanation necessary.
DO make interesting lists. People love 'em. It haven't made an Oscar list in ages, but I still get 3-5 emails a week from Netflix members thanking me for making them.
DO make a blog! Lots of people these days are expressing their love of film through a blog. Post your reviews there! Blogging is more interactive than Netflix, and a lot more educational. Ever since I started my blog a year or so ago, I stopped giving a crap about Netflix rank, which has dropped from 13 to 42, and I'm just fine about it. I'd love to see Netflix trash the reviewer ranking entirely -- it brings out the worst in people.
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Permalink Reply by Kristen DJ on
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Yea, I agree with just about everything said
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Permalink Reply by Kristen DJ on
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professor, you should check out my list & reviews.... i think you will be pleased. i put together an awesome collection and a lot of people tend to like my writing style. im always getting compliments on my reviews
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