We could all use a little more “thinking for yourself” in this age or social media. I laid the move. The dislike button should be used to share what I dislike and use that genuinely to recommend content that I will like. Seeing the number only biases me one way or the other and doesn’t even give me the opportunity to consider how I really feel in the first place.
Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#222Google has been on a roll lately. Most obnoxious web corpo.
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>Most YouTube users (and people on the Internet in general) do not conduct themselves respectfully or demonstrate any sort of intellectual curiosity when engaging with these sorts of feedback mechanisms. You nailed how I feel about this entire conversation. The author of the blog PopeHat summarized it really eloquently: Stop pretending bad faith is good faith for the purposes of “politeness” or “dialogue.” https://tw…
Of course bad faith just coincidentally happens to be something my ideological opposites do and good faith is what people who agree with me do. Strange how it works out that way but I assure you, it has nothing to do with my ideological values and is merely a coincidence.
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#224This still seems like a huge disconnect to what people use youtube for vs. what google thinks it should be used for. Google wants youtube to be all network and brands making content. ie. a future version of what TV is now. What actual people want is creator made videos(diy/review/podcast videos and everything else that make youtube wonderful). This disconnect has been happening since google bought youtube and this re…
It sounds like you read the headline and came to post your already held views on Google and Youtube hoping that it would be relevant.
From the article:
> We’ve also heard directly from smaller creators, and those just getting started with their YouTube channel, that they are unfairly targeted by dislike attacks. Our experiment data confirmed that this behavior does occur at a higher proportion on smaller channels.
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#225What 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…
actually, facebook would rather not censor. they have to do so because Google and Apple makes them. if both of those companies ban facebook ap, FB is gone, completely. if just 1 of the two ban fb, facebook is barely alive.
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#226I 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 haven't hit the like button since 2013 when I learned that it was publicly visible on my google account.
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#227Someone posted the link here a long time ago but some intrepid person was scraping youtube likes/dislikes on all the whitehouse videos and proved that youtube was actively manipulating vote count, sometimes by a very large percentage.
"Most popular president ever".
Total rubbish.
Trump is going to have to win for a third time now.
Let's Go Brandon!!
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#228So now I can't quickly see if a video how-to is a complete waste of my time or not. Great.
The comment section still works
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#229The like to dislike ratio is one of the best indicators of whether a video is clickbait or not. We are now at the stage where vies for our attention have become a zero-sum game. This will ultimately favour bad actors more than it will help out small creators.
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