I learnt today that there IS such a a thing as hitting the limit on the Netflix queue! After 484 movies, the company decided to put a stop to my movie adding madness. I was vexed to say the least, more so after I found out that they were harsher on me than everyone else whose queue limit is 500.

I went looking on the web to see if there were people who found this limit bothersome. Naturally, there were many distressed movie-buffs complaining about it. Where there is reason for distress, there are loyal habitual grumblers! :D But, all's fair in love and war (movies)? :D

Seriously, doesn't Netflix's queue limit feel like some random capricious imposition? A limit for limits sake? After all, it is only a database with a movie list. It's not like we are usurping actual DVDs.

Some more digging into this matter took me to this website which was absurdly shocking to stratospheric levels. HACKINGNETFLIX.com!!!! O gods of Kobol! Why?

The post on the blog said

Very few of us will hit the Netflix limit of 500 movies in our queue, but Ghandi's Lament posted the message you see when you try to add movie number 501.

You can get past this limitation by adding up to 4 more Profiles, so you can have a total of 2,500 movies in your queue(s). If you have 500 or more movies in your queue, you qualify for the NeflixFan 500 club. How many movies do you have in your queue?

The rest of the website is very interesting. I can see myself going there often. =)
If I stick around, I might even find an online petition somewhere there that I can sign to have NETFLIX increase this limit. :p

Anyway, whether netflix lets me add more movies or not, I have movies to queue up. I keep stumbling on really good movie lists of critics ballyhooing theirs as "must see" and those I must see. Excel, here I come!