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)
They've disabled the visual ratio bar for me. Wish I could get it back.
Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#152As a complete novice in life in everything that is not Tech, I rely on a lot of how-to videos on YouTube from small unknown creators. Likes and Dislikes ratio is one of the key filter to weed out less helpful or outright misinformed videos. This may be shrewd move for YouTube to boost engagement but at the greater cost of utility and UX. Very disappointing.
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#153I've never understood why they even have a downvote feature. It's almost always like 10,000 likes to 43 dislikes. What information is that getting across? Even if it were 10k to 1k, that doesn't even indicate anything real because of so many people disliking stuff because the host is a woman or they were told to by some other Youtuber.
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#154It makes me curious why HN does not support "dislike". Will "dislike" make HN more informative?
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#155I find this pathetic. As if the removal of the "dislike button" helps in any way, shape or form to create a more "inclusive" environment. This reeks of the silencing of what is perceived as dissident voices, is all. I've personally never hit a like or dislike button in my life, never will ... but found it interesting as a viewer to see the ratio. Even knowing this ratio is probably at least partially the outcome of b…
It's not Disney / DC comics, they have good ratios.
This is coming from the white house and the FDA / CDC, which have horrible ratios, and which have been caught removing dislikes several times leading people to question YouTube.
this is in my opinion violation of the first amendment if it really comes from the government - which makes it even worse.
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#156why isn't YouTube a public utility yet? or forfeit it for stewardship by archive.org. having the power to monopolistically decide on the design and technical choices for billions of people using proprietary/black box tech is absurd.
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#157I find this pathetic. As if the removal of the "dislike button" helps in any way, shape or form to create a more "inclusive" environment. This reeks of the silencing of what is perceived as dissident voices, is all. I've personally never hit a like or dislike button in my life, never will ... but found it interesting as a viewer to see the ratio. Even knowing this ratio is probably at least partially the outcome of b…
I know we're not supposed to tell people to RTFA on here... but i feel like i should tell you that they are not removing the dislike button
Agreed, but, moot point.
What use is a gun if you remove the bullets?
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#158Youtube once again siding with IP hoarders, advertisers and propagandists over their audience.