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Re: Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

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Post by 252452d »

ma2rten wrote: post #386
rz2k wrote: post #376

Earlier quoted context omitted.

YouTube premium never shows me adds, and downvotes have reliably gotten the AI to stop suggesting a musician or autoplaying a song that I don't like, regardless of their rough membership in a genre I otherwise want to hear. It makes me feel guilty to downvote someone or their work who's probably a good person, but it's the only reliable way to tune the AI. I get a lot of enjoyment out of music on youtube premium, but…

When you see the suggestion you can select "not interested" instead.

Which does nothing, of course.

Re: Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

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Post by pushrax »

youeseh wrote: post #407
jlebar wrote: post #387

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The tweet is clear that you can still downvote videos to tune the algorithm. Dislikes just won't be shown.

Perhaps they should let paying members see counts.

Surprisingly, that would be the tipping point that would get me to pay. Dislike ratio is very useful to avoid wasting time.

Re: Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

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Post by phzoe »

mahogany wrote: post #410
phzoe wrote: post #383

Earlier quoted context omitted.

50000 people would show up to a Trump rally. 15 journalists to a Biden rally. Engaged dislikers are not "bots". And the left has plenty of resources to have their own like-"bots". No, the truth is very simple. There's at least 50000 Trump supporters that will downvote Biden's white house. Even more because ... no travel required.

> Engaged dislikers are not "bots". I didn't make that claim. My main point is that the article suggests that this manipulation is selective, and while Youtube might indeed be selectively manipulating White House videos, the methodology used doesn't show that. Here's a simple question which should be easy to answer, if you've actually approached this in an impartial way: does Youtube also remove likes or dislikes fro…

My working theory was that since Biden asked youtube to remove dislikes and a google engineer confirmed this, then it actually happened.

81m.org tracked other channels. Different behavior.

Re: Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

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Post by adventured »

water8 wrote: post #417
viraptor wrote: post #234

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WH disabling comments on its videos is not against free speech. It's not about allowing you to shout about your issues wherever you want with everyone having to see it. Disabling comments on official communication is a good move whether it's gov or private company announcements. They won't have to deal with some top upvoted comment with: incorrect summary, incorrect restatement of something, abuse at the account or o…

Let’s cut the BS. It’s about not looking bad. Its that simple

That's absolutely what it's about. There's nothing to debate about that.

It's the same reason Trump wanted to be able to block people on Twitter. For the same reason he wasn't allowed to do that, the White House shouldn't be allowed to disable YouTube commenting. But hey, it's not like there's a double standard in favor of the Democrats and Biden.

Re: Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

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Post by foofoo4u »

Youtube has been displaying prominent banners on their homepage for the past several months promoting identity-politics centric content by token members. These videos were down voted to oblivion. The community clearly doesn't like their woke agenda (including I). Quickly the videos comments and ratings become disabled. I can't help but think this new feature to disable down votes is somehow a sinister way to take away the power of people to signal their disapproval of driving narratives.

Re: Testing a few new designs that don't show the public dislike count

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Post by rangibaby »

retsibsi wrote: post #9

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.

This is Youtube's revenge for users not loving the Rewind 2018 video
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