91–100 of 508 posts
This seems rather user-hostile. The downvote count is useful for identifying videos that aren't what they claim to be. And how about DIY videos that give terrible advice? A big downvote ratio will get most people's attention in a way that critical comments may not.
Companies are only interested in user behavior that increases engagement. Everything else is on the chopping block.
This seems rather user-hostile. The downvote count is useful for identifying videos that aren't what they claim to be. And how about DIY videos that give terrible advice? A big downvote ratio will get most people's attention in a way that critical comments may not.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
I could not repair half the things I have learned to repair without Youtube. 100% worth having to look out for manipulative antifeatures, in my book.
What sort of stuff, and what alternatives have you tried? If it's a vehicle, the Chilton's or Haynes (I'm sure there's a difference but I sure couldn't tell) manuals will cover just about anything you'd want to do. If it's a piece of consumer electronics, iFixit usually has good teardown and repair guides (in the "annotated images and text" style) that cover a lot, though for some brands you can actually find factory…
Chilton and Haynes both generally consist of vague instructions like "unscrew bolts and remove part x". They're good for identifying which components need to be removed for access, but they often offer very little in terms of where bolts are (sometimes there are pictures), or how to deal with problem areas (e.g. sometimes you need to wiggle or turn things a certain way).
Their limited instructions don't compare to watching someone actually do it and walk you through problem points simultaneously.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
>Fake videos may not show up in recommendation feeds, but they still appear in search results don't they? Use report button
I would for anything truly extreme (like some horrible shock footage in the middle of a supposedly innocent video). But I don't know if all of these videos actually violate any rules; often they are of the kind , where the content is actually someone talking about the thing I'm looking for. edit: Or another relatively common type, not necessarily fake or even strictly misleading, just cynically low-quality: a video m…
For the past couple of months I was regularly reporting group of spammers spamming links in comment sections but to this day I still see them running amok.
Or if your fave content is only on Youtube, an alternative front-end such as Invidious
Earlier quoted context omitted.
There's a site tracking these, some of the stats on older videos with high views are crazy (down the page): https://81m.org
It's interesting to compare this to the Trump Whitehouse Archive: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCCITMedGC5PA-zMrLTH5-kg Almost the exact inverse like/dislike ratio. Biden received more votes than any other presidential candidate in history, AND they should skew much younger than Trump voters. So why is it that the Biden White House channel struggles so much with likes vs dislikes?
Very stupid idea and apparently requested by the Biden admin. Now you have millions of Trump subs just disliking every video.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
Smells political alright. The Biden admin disabled comments on all official The White House channel videos pretty quickly into their administration. Most videos have a tremendously high dislike to like ratio, the most recent is 3.4K dislikes to 205 likes. I don't know who they expect to consume their Youtube content but it apparently isn't the establishment's voter base. This is another brick in the wall that is Yout…
You think Youtube is removing dislikes because of white house vids that average out less than ~25000 views each?