Being replaced by someone with years of working on ads, who was brought into the company as a result of the purchase of DoubleClick. I would broadly expect YouTube to get worse as a result of this.
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#112We can all hate Youtube here for sure but when you listen to for example Linus from LTT he is very adamant that while youtube does have it's fair share of problems, when it comes to compensating creators fairly on their platform, they are much better than almost all others. And I personally enjoy Youtube very much. So much great content for free. If I need to learn about something i find myself looking into youtube f…
If you have a large channel sure, but they cut off smaller creators a while back with their new monetization requirements.
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#113Bring back the original founders from UIUC instead?
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#114Discussion of her actual announcement at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34821472
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#115Earlier quoted context omitted.
Are you missing the dislike button? I still see it on Youtube and I'm not running any plugins.
The button is still there, you just don't see the number of dislikes without a plugin.
Is it? I see in the network requests where the "likes" button data is returned, but not the dislikes. It's possible I just can't find it though - there's a lot of data in a lot of shapes.
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#116Hopefully this brings back the dislike button. Intellectually I know a change of CEO shouldn't/wouldn't impact a feature like this, but I am still annoyed at its absence and find it makes YouTube substantially less useful. Edit: I understand the dislike button is still there, I misspoke. But for my purposes of seeing like/dislike ratio, it might as well not be there.
The stated reason for getting rid of dislike visibility was very suspicious to me. While I don't deny that targeted harassment and bandwagoning with dislikes on certain channels/videos happens, there's no way it was happening frequently enough to warrant removing the feature from all videos. I saw no reason why individual creators couldn't stick with hiding the controls on a per-video or per-channel basis. Removing t…
I've never really found the like/dislike buttons useful, and tbh they could get rid of ratings altogether and not much would change for me.
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#117Earlier quoted context omitted.
Completely disagree. Getting rid of that button has significantly cleaned up the associated comments sections. I’ve also noticed a general improvement in my recommendations. Great move imo.
How can you tell when a video contains something misleading? For example, I struggle to find quality DIY videos without the dislikes warning me away. Dislikes are a great way for the community to clean house.
Comments and general channel credibility. If channel deletes comments or is often misleading people will likely catch on and avoid.
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#118She quite literally got this far because of family. Geez I wonder why Youtube remains one of the most underperforming media assets.
Edit: SV is full of nepotism.
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#119Hopefully Sundar's turn next!
Agree. Google desperately needs to clean house on the executive/management/VP side
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#120Hopefully this brings back the dislike button. Intellectually I know a change of CEO shouldn't/wouldn't impact a feature like this, but I am still annoyed at its absence and find it makes YouTube substantially less useful. Edit: I understand the dislike button is still there, I misspoke. But for my purposes of seeing like/dislike ratio, it might as well not be there.
Completely disagree. Getting rid of that button has significantly cleaned up the associated comments sections. I’ve also noticed a general improvement in my recommendations. Great move imo.
I'm not expert on YouTube's algorithms, how did getting rid of visible dislikes help improve recommendations?
I could see it having an impact on the comment section because rather than just dislike and move on people feel compelled to say what is wrong with the video, but I could also see the opposite effect where instead of just disliking and moving on now people spam the comment section with unhelpful attacks on the video/creator.