Two questions about recommendations

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NalleTV
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Two questions about recommendations

Post by NalleTV »

Hi! New user here. I have two questions about recommendations.

1. I used to use a another recommendation service which used static ratings with ratings from 1-5. All of my grades where skewed toward 4. I have spent some time putting in these ratings here on Criticker, now 581 ratings and was curious to see what recommendations I would get.

But to my disappointment I got some really weird recommendations. A lot of serious old movies which is not what I generally like. I looked through my ratings and realized that my 55 percentile were at 80. So then that would mean that Criticker thinks that all the movies I have rated below 80 should be considered bad? Is that why I get weird recommendations? Should I try to skew everything toward 50 instead?


2. My girlfriend also strated using Criticker. But when we both look at recommendations she gets a nice list and can choose different genres and years while I only get a top recommendation and some other recommendations. How can get such a list as my girlfriend gets?

porzano
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Re: Two questions about recommendations

Post by porzano »

Welcome to Criticker!

Hope you´ll learn to like it here, now that filmtipset.se is going in the wrong direction :(

so you can rate anyway you want. only you know what the grade 50 means to you.
But if you´re not satisfied with having a film rated at 80 showing as a 55%´er ( = just above median)
then you need to rate a lot of films you did´nt like so much to move the median down.
A sure way to mess up your recommendations is to only rate movies that you like.

2. take a look at your TCI´s perhaps your girlfriend has more people with similar taste than you have.
A short list of people will mean a short list of recommendations.
If your top users have in common that they like the same really old movies, you will get such recommendations,
nothing strange about that.

NalleTV
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Re: Two questions about recommendations

Post by NalleTV »

Thanks! And thanks for the answer!

Yes, Filmtipset isn't really what it used to be. It will take some getting used to with another recommendation-site.I often found good movies at Filmtipset by looking at similiar movies and seeing if Filmtipset thought I was gonna like it. Filmtipset usually just recommended me movies that it thought I was gonna give a 5. Here at Criticker it seems like you can get recommendations as long as it's over the 50th percentile. I liked more the list you got at Filmtipset than the format of the Top Recommendation.

But I was curious about Criticker since many seemed to think it was really good at giving recommendations. And also it has tv-series, something I missed at Filmtipset.

I deleted all my ratings. And now I have a lot fewer but equally many above and under 50.

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