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Happy B'day!

Clever was of presenting oneself. I was drawn into looking at your interests, and after all, isn't that what's it's all about? For some reason, I still feel disappointed.

Saw your comment on Knald's wall about your ranking woes. I was basically bored of the game a few weeks ago at 86 reviews and 5522 ranking when a friend - Dr. Morbius - told me that "Not Interested" counts as a rating. I actually dropped in rank the next week - to 5600 something - after tacking on 2300 "Not Interested." I thought I was bored with the algorithm until I found out last night I was at 1022. Yeah, it's stupid that you can do almost 4 times as many reviews as me and feel stuck. It's bullshit, but it's a black-box algorithm; feed it what it wants.

I agree, but even "tweaking" the algorithm will have limited effects. As long as lists have any positive influence on the algorithm we'll see cases where writing enough lists will give you a high ranking. I have no doubt that JRo1987's many ratings and many friends & faves have an impact as well, so it looks like s/he is simply good at playing the system.

Just saw your flickr rant about BishopDonDC who's ranked at 83 (the image was posted at Hacking Netflix). I wonder what your reaction is to this guy...

Thanks for the comment, and the good info regarding a useful way of using Notebook.

Okay, good to know - I and a few others on my team run the @netflixhelps account.

Are you also @MCWHAMMER on Twitter?