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Critics want to educate you
Review bots want to trick you
Netflix gaslights you
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(Not paid actors. Yet.)
"Before this app, I thought I liked movies. Now I'm a Level 3 'Moon Buck' in French New Wave and I physically cannot watch anything with CGI in it. Thank you?"
"I rated Madame Web 10/10 just to tank my friends' calculated scores. Pure chaos. I love this app"
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However, the legends who keep me from eating out of a bin get access to advanced features:
No. We reject the concept of zero on ethical grounds. We don't trust numbers that can't be counted with fingers. The lowest possible rating is 1 which equals 1 finger.
There's two edges to this sword. If you can't trust them to be right, can you at least trust
them to be wrong? Buck The Critics accounts for both scenarios.
Their wrong ratings
is still
useful input to the Buckomatic TruScore 2000 calculation algorithm.
is on your watchlist and streaming on one of your services
is highly rated by your friends
Credited to one of your tracked directors/show-runners
Think of it as a three pronged trident that exclusively spears yellow-fin tuna, and sockeye salmon and always misses the grotty minnows that have little strings of poo coming out of their bottoms.
Open the movie/show in the app then poke the eyeball once.
It's a cycle mechanism so
if you
poke it twice it goes into your block list, poke it thrice and it cycles to neither your
watch or block list.
This won't please the app too much because you've just poked it
in the
eye three times...
Titles in your watchlist will show in your watchlist page (genius) and be prioritised for top picks when streaming
Titles in your blocklist will never show in your top picks. This makes space for stuff you might actually watch
Press and hold your thumb on their portrait. You can include anywhere between 1 and 5 at a
time.
It's not possible to track zero directors due to our afforementioned ethical
stance.
It's something we feel very strongly about.
That's a statement, not a question.
In anycase that's very community spirited of you
and we
appreciate it. You can report bugs by opening
the dropdown menu from the home page, opening 'about' and then scrolling down a
bit.
We
thought about offering a financial reward to people who submit clear and well structured
bugs. We're not going to do it, but we thought about it and we deserve credit for that.
Ahh you noted the emails are stupid? Yes we have been quite clear that Buck AI is a jerk. If you want to turn off notifications and emails universally you can do so from 'SETTINGS' in the home menu dropdown.
If you want to disable notifications from individual friends who are uniquely annoying, you can do so from the friend page.
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