So now I can't quickly see if a video how-to is a complete waste of my time or not. Great.
The likes to views ratio is still a useful indicator (although a less obvious one)
Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
#82Sounds like a call to duty to hit the dislike button if even slightly inclined to do so going forward.
As long as you don't mind how it will affect the suggestion algorithm. The most maddening thing is when a video is of the correct topic of my interest, but I know it includes misinformation as well. If I dislike, it biases against seeing more of this topic. If I like, it might bias toward the misinformation. In practice, regardless, it seems to default rely on "leftwing vs rightwing" tags until it gets confused enough it just doesn't recommend the topic at all.
What a world we live in.
Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
#83What about cases where the dislikes are against a gov figure and the count gives you confidence in numbers. Plus now authoritarian governments get to serve out even more propaganda talking about videos that are liked and the opposition has no way to see that the opposite also happens. So the opposition grows even more silent. Afraid to act because it might lead to negative repercussions and there is no scale of the d…
And the sad thing is there are no competition to youtube. In facebook people at least can do angry reaction.
There is definitely competition to YouTube. TikTok appeared out of nowhere and surpassed YouTube installation numbers.
With that said, TikTok is even worse when it comes to dislikes.
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#85Disney's been talking to them ....
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#86This isn’t about small content creators. It’s almost certainly about big brands (advertisers) that hate it when their high budget movie/game/trailer/whatever gets publicly downvoted.
Yup. I guess I'll use Youtube less, then. The downvote ratio contains so much information as to what video is garbage.
Less than 80% approval -> I don't watch.
I use a Ratings Preview chrome extension to show me the downvotes next to the thumbnails, and it will be rendered useless. I guess I'll just stop getting into Youtube rabbitholes now.
Maybe it is a blessing in disguise.
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#87These videos have a lot of dislikes https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos
Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
#88Sounds like a call to duty to hit the dislike button if even slightly inclined to do so going forward.
As long as you don't mind how it will affect the suggestion algorithm. The most maddening thing is when a video is of the correct topic of my interest, but I know it includes misinformation as well. If I dislike, it biases against seeing more of this topic. If I like, it might bias toward the misinformation. In practice, regardless, it seems to default rely on "leftwing vs rightwing" tags until it gets confused enoug…
I just installed an extension to block all the recommendations because it wouldn't stop recommending Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro videos to me. And they have nothing new to say to me.
Edit: Oh no! I admitted that because I don't want to those videos I got rid of all recommendations. So off-topic I know!
Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
#89So likes show you how popular something is.
And dislikes don't show you how controversial it is, or perhaps how general Youtube audience reacts to being exposed to something.
So that now if you want to make it known you have to leave a comment. And then some stats have to be done on the comments to understand the sentiment. On Youtube's shitty unforum, you have to do stats. Right.
They just sealed it, all of their likes, dislikes, comments etc.; all of Youtube's non-streaming aspects are demonstrably useless, not just "feel useless", but actually are it.
Time to support things like ogjre.com and reddit etc., for they provide what Youtube denies.
Community. Forums. Thought. Orientation and discrimination. What is good, and who would think that it is. What is objectionable, and for whom.
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#90And when people stop hitting the dislike button cos they feel it doesn't count, Youtube would retire the dislike button, citing low usage.
They have been steadily moving towards recommendation engines that rely more on inferred behaviors than direct feedback for a long time. I'm surprised they didn't just completely eliminate dislikes.
That aside, timing sure is interesting given the recent Nintendo fiasco. Wonder how much they spend on ads each quarter.