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No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

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Re: No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

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Post by ChildOfChaos »

d--b wrote: post #19

Guys, ok youtube recommendations suck, they may not always have, I don’t know, but does it really matter that much that you need to share your frustration to a community of thousands of tech people? It’s just a product. You don’t complain online when your brand new sneakers hurt your feet, do you? Especially if you got them for free… You don’t like youtube recommendation engine, complain to them, not to us.

You seemed to be missing the point, as the title states, this is now fully official, it's officially ruined YouTube, it's not a mere rant, it's highly official.

Re: No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

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Post by mihaic »

d--b wrote: post #19

Guys, ok youtube recommendations suck, they may not always have, I don’t know, but does it really matter that much that you need to share your frustration to a community of thousands of tech people? It’s just a product. You don’t complain online when your brand new sneakers hurt your feet, do you? Especially if you got them for free… You don’t like youtube recommendation engine, complain to them, not to us.

Youtube is an infrastructure that delivers a huge segment of all video content watched today, especially from independent creators.

Youtube is faceless and without a contact process, so posting on a forum where you know Google employees are active seems reasonable to me. As its recommendation system is shaping global culture, shouting in any medium with an ear about it might not be wasted effort.

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Post by hutzlibu »

d--b wrote: post #19

Guys, ok youtube recommendations suck, they may not always have, I don’t know, but does it really matter that much that you need to share your frustration to a community of thousands of tech people? It’s just a product. You don’t complain online when your brand new sneakers hurt your feet, do you? Especially if you got them for free… You don’t like youtube recommendation engine, complain to them, not to us.

It is just a rant about a relevant topic, you don't like rants, ignore them or complain to him directly, not to us ...

And since he or she has a contact in the profile you actually could. But complaining directly to youtube? Haha, good one.

Re: No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

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Post by BatteryMountain »

AmazingTurtle wrote: post #20

Yeah also it just so happens that when I scroll through my feed, I pass by videos I have already seen or where I actively decided NOT to watch them beause they were prompted to me already 20 times or so and I still won't click it. It's to the point where I hit the "I dont wanna see this" button on a video because youtube keeps pushing VERY hard to make me see certain videos. Recommendations are trash. I used to find…

Same issue for me. Really all it is showing to me is video's I've already seen. Youtube has lost it's shine completely.

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Post by acd10j »

d--b wrote: post #19

Guys, ok youtube recommendations suck, they may not always have, I don’t know, but does it really matter that much that you need to share your frustration to a community of thousands of tech people? It’s just a product. You don’t complain online when your brand new sneakers hurt your feet, do you? Especially if you got them for free… You don’t like youtube recommendation engine, complain to them, not to us.

I think it has already been established that best support forum for Google is HN. As they do not read feedback directly shared to them, but lots of Google employees are part of HN and it might reach them :-)

Re: No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

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Post by BatteryMountain »

g0gzs wrote: post #5

I used the like/dislike ratio to see if something is actually a good video about the topic I'm searching, or should I continue further. For example, if I search "volvo s40 MAF sensor replacement", I won't watch someone ramble 20 minutes about how volvos are good, and why they chose the car in white instead of blue color... I want someone who'll pop the hood and replace the sensor, and those videos will usually have a…

Since they removed the dislike count, I've watched zero technical/programming and related videos on youtube. I'm not going to sit for 30 minutes and then realise the video is a pile of garbage.

Re: No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

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Post by gcatalfamo »

ageitgey wrote: post #15

I don't personally think the dislike button is the explanation. But something seems to have changed in the Youtube recommendations algo in the last few weeks. In my experience, the algo has gotten very noticeably worse recently: - Recommending lots of 6 - 12 year old videos on topics I'm interested in (who cares about a 12 year old product review?) - Recommending tons of videos I've already seen or recommending reall…

Is the streamer bro Asmongold, by any chance? I got it recommended out of the blue.
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