<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>quietbritishjim</author><text>&amp;quot;My list&amp;quot; is not algorithmically generated; it&amp;#x27;s a list of shows you have chosen to add to it. It would be nice if have you the option to remove a show from it when you finished it but very annoying if it did it automatically behind your back. Although clearly the real problem here is that &amp;quot;my list&amp;quot; isn&amp;#x27;t a clear enough description to show you manually control it (but I don&amp;#x27;t have a better suggestion).</text><parent_chain><item><author>klausjensen</author><text>Completely agree. I am constantly baffled at the bullshit Netflix suggests me.&lt;p&gt;I just went to the frontpage of my Netflix and...:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;My list&amp;quot; recommends 3 series where I have alread watched the last episode&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Only on Netflix&amp;quot; recommends another two series, I have already wathed.&lt;p&gt;- A section displayed is &amp;quot;Watch together for older kids&amp;quot; - I dont have kids, never watched any kids stuff on my account.&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Documentaries&amp;quot; contains six suggestions, 3 of which I have already watched on netflix&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;- I am suggested several shows, which are good - but I have already watched outside Netflix earlier - and there is no way to tell Netflix (none that I know of, anyway)&lt;p&gt;9 out of 10 times when I go to Netflix, I intend to continue watching a series - but Netflix makes me scroll past SEVEN sections of recommendations to get to &amp;quot;Continue watching..&amp;quot; before showing me the series I have watched 1-2 episodes of most days for the past two weeks.&lt;p&gt;Maybe they are just too busy making sure all new series are woke-i-fied to care about how this simple stuff works?</text></item><item><author>koonsolo</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get why they wanted to go all out on AI for this. I use Netflix, and a simple algorithm would already be an improvement:&lt;p&gt;- If I watched a movie and gave it a thumbs down, don&amp;#x27;t recommend it&lt;p&gt;- If I watched a movie &amp;lt; 1 month ago, don&amp;#x27;t recommend it&lt;p&gt;- If I browsed over a movie 50 times, read the info, and still didn&amp;#x27;t play it, stop recommending it.&lt;p&gt;- If I watched the last episode, remove the &amp;quot;new episodes&amp;quot; banner.&lt;p&gt;WTF</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?</title><url>https://www.quora.com/How-useful-was-the-Netflix-Prize-challenge-for-Netflix/answer/Xavier-Amatriain?share=1</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>rkachowski</author><text>I always took the &amp;quot;older kids&amp;quot; thing to mean &amp;quot;adults interested in cartoons&amp;quot; rather than &amp;quot;teenagers&amp;quot;.</text><parent_chain><item><author>klausjensen</author><text>Completely agree. I am constantly baffled at the bullshit Netflix suggests me.&lt;p&gt;I just went to the frontpage of my Netflix and...:&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;My list&amp;quot; recommends 3 series where I have alread watched the last episode&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Only on Netflix&amp;quot; recommends another two series, I have already wathed.&lt;p&gt;- A section displayed is &amp;quot;Watch together for older kids&amp;quot; - I dont have kids, never watched any kids stuff on my account.&lt;p&gt;- &amp;quot;Documentaries&amp;quot; contains six suggestions, 3 of which I have already watched on netflix&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;- I am suggested several shows, which are good - but I have already watched outside Netflix earlier - and there is no way to tell Netflix (none that I know of, anyway)&lt;p&gt;9 out of 10 times when I go to Netflix, I intend to continue watching a series - but Netflix makes me scroll past SEVEN sections of recommendations to get to &amp;quot;Continue watching..&amp;quot; before showing me the series I have watched 1-2 episodes of most days for the past two weeks.&lt;p&gt;Maybe they are just too busy making sure all new series are woke-i-fied to care about how this simple stuff works?</text></item><item><author>koonsolo</author><text>I don&amp;#x27;t get why they wanted to go all out on AI for this. I use Netflix, and a simple algorithm would already be an improvement:&lt;p&gt;- If I watched a movie and gave it a thumbs down, don&amp;#x27;t recommend it&lt;p&gt;- If I watched a movie &amp;lt; 1 month ago, don&amp;#x27;t recommend it&lt;p&gt;- If I browsed over a movie 50 times, read the info, and still didn&amp;#x27;t play it, stop recommending it.&lt;p&gt;- If I watched the last episode, remove the &amp;quot;new episodes&amp;quot; banner.&lt;p&gt;WTF</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>How useful was the Netflix Prize challenge for Netflix?</title><url>https://www.quora.com/How-useful-was-the-Netflix-Prize-challenge-for-Netflix/answer/Xavier-Amatriain?share=1</url></story>