AskMeCha: What's the best way to manage a 3 DVD Netflix Queue used by 5 people?
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I'm at college and living in a ten person suite with my friends. We came up with the idea of having a Netflix account for the suite (four of the ten are film majors, and who doesn't like movies anyway?).
I suggested that the costs should be split among those interested, rather than one person footing the bill and 9 freeloaders adding movies.
So there are now five people who are sharing this account, including myself.
The problem is, well, we have way too many DVDs. People are adding them willy nilly! I added a movie on Tuesday and by Thursday 70 other DVDs were added. 70! By ONE PERSON.
I've addressed this problem and hopefully people will use some discretion in the future, but another problem remains; how do we manage whose DVDs go where in the queue?
We get 3 DVDs at a time, but let's say (hypothetically, of course) we don't necessarily watch them before we send them back. So we get the DVDs and put them back in the mail within a day or two. Wink wink nudge nudge please don't sue me.
Is there some sort of system we could use? I want to avoid a situation where people add DVDs and automatically move theirs to the top, but I don't think that's likely. But how do we keep from stepping on eachothers' toes, and maintain some form of order? I thought of using the profiles feature but I don't think that really works for our situation.
As it is now, I'm keeping a list of all the movies that are mine, just to help keep track of things.