No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me

Post by mrkramer » Tue, May 10, 2022, 12:57 PM UTC

belter wrote: post #191

alexb_ wrote: post #105

I've recently heard about this YouTube account named Roel Van De Paar. If you've looked up any error message on YouTube recently, you've probably run into him. Because of the "no dislikes" change, he's everywhere now. And by everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE. The account has over 2 million videos. Approximately 0.2% of ALL videos on the ENTIRE platform of YouTube can be attributed to this account, and if you check now th…

I see a Business opportunity for a new YouTube specific search engine, that will allow for discovery of new content but will filter all that crap:-)

Post by dncornholio » Tue, May 10, 2022, 12:58 PM UTC

yreg wrote: post #63

Finding good YouTube videos is a non-issue. There are more amazing sciency/educational channels than it is possible to watch.[1] Just subscribe to the ones you like and go directly to https://www.youtube.com/feed/subscriptions [1] for example: 3Blue1Brown Beyond The Press CGP Grey Captain Disillusion Cody’s Lab Computerphile EEVblog EVNautilus Electroboom Engineering with Rosie Evan and Katelyn Everyday Astronaut Hal…

Post by mrkramer » Tue, May 10, 2022, 1:00 PM UTC

jimmydorry wrote: post #250

belter wrote: post #191

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I see a Business opportunity for a new YouTube specific search engine, that will allow for discovery of new content but will filter all that crap:-)

What feedback mechanism would you use to filter the crap? There is no longer an incentive for users to down-vote (assuming you managed to even get that data). And such a search engine needs a literal army of users providing signal to evaluate the quality of content as it is released.

Post by miniwark » Tue, May 10, 2022, 1:01 PM UTC

FartyMcFarter wrote: post #148

philliphaydon wrote: post #125

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You've probably ruined my recommendations forever now. :( I pretty much only stick to subscriber channels now except for stuff people send me. Since there's no dislikes I just don't browse the stuff available anymore. YouTube is definitely worse off without the dislike counter.

There's a "don't recommend channel" option if you click the 3 dots button on a video. I use this liberally for all sorts of reasons and it makes my recommendations much better.

Post by mcv » Tue, May 10, 2022, 1:03 PM UTC

socket0 wrote: post #47

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…

What bothers me most about the recommendations I get are the videos I have clearly watched. "You recently watched this clip, so we at YouTube think you should watch it again."