How Netflix’s binary rating system is hurting our documentaries

The good, the bad, and nothing else.

Charlie Gedeon
UX Collective
Published in
5 min readApr 14, 2021

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A thumbs up and thumbs down icon on the left vs a variety of different icons on the right.
Illustration my own with images from the Wiki Commons and icons from FontAwesome

After watching Seaspiracy, Netflix’s hotly debated documentary about the unsustainable practices of industrial fisheries, my mixed feelings about the limitations of the platform’s thumbs-based rating system were vividly revived.

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