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Analysis of Netflix's DVD Allocation System

Posted by michael on from the scientific-method dept.

dvd_rent_test writes "Netflix uses the number of movies you have previously rented to determine your priority in getting movies. The more movies you rented during your last billing cycle, the less chance you have of receiving a movie versus an individual who has rented fewer movies. This is why new users have great success getting their movies and older or heavy users have a difficult time getting some movies."

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  1. HEAVY users? by Zarquil · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Must begin regimen of diet and exercise.. Which should be easy since I never seem to be able to get the DVD I want.

  2. MOD PARENT UP +10000 FUNNY! by herrd0kt0r · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    "Solaris (Original 1970's version)
    How can that be when Sun Microsystems was founded in 1982 [sun.com]?"

    jebus. RTF... ANYTHING, man. i mean... jeez.

    you even went through the trouble of using the italics tags and hrefing a link. i bet you thought you were, like, +500 badass when really you're +1000 hilarious at best, and +10^100 dumb at worst.

    still, one of the funniest things i've read here today.