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Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#542Time to switch to Rumble, everyone. https://rumble.com/
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#543Odd that a certain political party got a large amount of downvotes on all their videos and YouTube removes the publics ability to see them soon after.
Most pro-vaccine videos are also massively disliked on YouTube, despite the fact that the vast majority of people support vaccines. I'm guessing you're a conservative, and you don't want dislikes to go away because you think it's great that pro-democrat videos get downvoted, but you can't base real public opinion on YouTube dislikes. It's massively astroturfed
> I'm guessing you're a conservative
Please stop. Most conservatives support vaccines. Your idea of conservatives has an insidious skew that's just plain wrong.
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#544Bummer. I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching. If I see a 3,000 up / 48 down video on a topic I'm interested in there's a really good chance the video is great. I'm a small time creator (~13.5k subs) and don't care at all about upvotes or downvotes being public. There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the vid…
Unfortunately, at least unfortunately for your preferences, YouTube (and the modern web broadly, perhaps) does not really prioritize ways for users to find content.
They're committed to recommendation and such.
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#545Take this with a grain of salt, but in one of Devon Nash's videos on YouTube, he mentioned (without a source) that YouTube did a study that looked at likes and dislikes. They tweaked the algorithm based on videos that were heavily liked or disliked, and what they found is that likes and dislikes don't matter (for them). It's all about engagement.
So... People will hate watch someone they don't like, and comment on the video about how stupid that person is. These videos with high engagement end up serving lots of ads, and YouTube makes money either way. So my tinfoil hat is that when YouTube recommends a video, before if I saw the heavy dislike bar I might think, "Why is YouTube recommending this bad video to me?" But with dislikes private, I might just engage with the video and think less about why the algorithm recommended it to me.
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#546Seems obvious:
1. Current administration's videos are downvoted heavily. These likely aren't brigades but rather upset constituents.
2. People don't want videos with low dislikes.
(1) probably has to do with the white house being "in close contact with" social media, to paraphrase Psaki.
(2) almost certainly has to do with ad revenue. Without a dislike count you're forced to watch some nominal amount of the video.
I suppose we all saw this coming when Google bought Youtube. It became obvious after "covid misinformation" became the new way to censor anything and everything the ruling party does not like.
edit: lmao downvotes you practically need a throwaway to post an opinion contrary to the lay masses.
Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube
#547Bummer. I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching. If I see a 3,000 up / 48 down video on a topic I'm interested in there's a really good chance the video is great. I'm a small time creator (~13.5k subs) and don't care at all about upvotes or downvotes being public. There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the vid…
>> I'm a small time creator (~13.5k subs) and don't care at all about upvotes or downvotes being public.
Yes, but you're not someone YouTube is trying to protect.
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#548Dislike
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#549This is another example of how the ruling class is trying to reassert control over the narrative and flow of information. Flag dissent as `misinformation`, remove comments, remove dislikes. Bit by bit, clamping down on the ability for the public to revolt.
They've also manipulated search results in the last few years. Before ~2018 if you searched for a political debate, the top result was likely to be an independent content creator or someone who was there, a vlog, or something like that. Now it's all.. FOX, NBC, ABC, CNN, etc. I wonder if the legacy media is paying Google behind the scenes to promote content.
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#550By referring to the act of disliking the video as an "attack", they are framing this change as one which protects users, when in fact, only a small minority post videos, and a smaller portion among them are bothered by dislikes. In fact, the change is user-hostile, removing one channel for users to see whether a video is of low quality (inaccurate description, containing false information, etc.), and improving advertiser metrics artificially (this, by their own description).