Was very much looking forward to the service. Therefore, I was very disappointed when it failed to deliver.
During the rating process I was asked to rate Blink 182. I give 'em a +1. I go on to rate several others more positively.
When
I get to my home page I see that there is a section for listing
recommended music. It can hold six spots. Apparently "The Filter" can
only suggest 5. Fine. However why is "Blink 182" in the list after
rating so many others more highly?
Netflix has a rating system also. One of the ways it encourages you to rate movies is that is asks
you to rate movies you have just returned and it promises to 'show you
two more movies you'll love." Go a head and rate Star Wars Episode 1
poorly and by gosh if Netflix doesn't suggest Episodes 2 and 3. WTF!!
You have just wasted my time and I no longer trust your 'system'.
"The Filter" appears to have about as much credibility.
I will continue to mess with it now and again to see if it gets better but so far but I am not impressed or enthused.
(Also, on a technical note; I went to offer a comment on an artist
when I maxed out the text area. There was no indication of the maximum
size or anything but fine. However, this doesn't just prevent you from
entering more characters it appears to stop accepting keystrokes
altogether. Like the "Delete" key. Say, for example, if I wanted to
delete some of the characters to shorten and edit my post. I had to
select the text and use the 'right-click' context menu to 'Cut' the
text. I am using
Firefox 2 on a Windows box.)