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YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by stuckinhell »

TchoBeer wrote: post #116
BitwiseFool wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Just a counter opinion, I find them fairly useful. Not 100% useful, but more often then not very useful.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by BitwiseFool »

ramraj07 wrote: post #39

So much hate for her on all fronts, yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet. Any creator or consumer who has half a brain should realize the magnitude of the feat and how unobvious it is that YouTube exists as it does today.

>"yet she made the most rewarding media platform today on the internet."

I think TikTok holds this position, not YouTube. Indeed, YouTube seems to be pushing really hard for Shorts to be a viable competitor but it doesn't seem to be working.

Or, do you mean rewarding in terms of monetization for creators and not engagement?

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by nostrademons »

causi wrote: post #105
ncann wrote: post #76

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Exactly, she was only CEO since 2014. Saying she made YT is laughable, if anything most of the annoying things at YT happened under her reign, from bogus DMCAs to dislike button removal to the force fed YT shorts and so on.

Don't forget having to have a fucking Google+ account. I'm proudly one of the few who spent half a decade being unable to comment or send direct messages because I refused to assent to the Google+ account creation pop-up.

That wasn't under her. Google+ launched in 2011; Salar Kamangar was CEO of YouTube at the time.

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Post by [deleted] »

robmusial wrote: post #28

Hopefully 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.

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Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by ignoramous »

neosat wrote: post #94

YouTube has been riding it's content momentum for too long. It really needs a change of leadership to continue to innovate. For some searches, it's baffling that the top results are clearly intuitively wrong (e.g. showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high, compared to clearly better alternatives that you can find if you wade through the results)

I thought YouTube did really well under Wojcicki's leadership.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by beebmam »

BitwiseFool wrote: post #101
robmusial wrote: post #28

Hopefully 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…

The dislike button was never removed, that is not accurate. The dislike count is no longer being displayed to viewers. Dislikes still exist. In my opinion, it is important to be accurate with language.

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Post by chippiewill »

neosat wrote: post #94

YouTube has been riding it's content momentum for too long. It really needs a change of leadership to continue to innovate. For some searches, it's baffling that the top results are clearly intuitively wrong (e.g. showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high, compared to clearly better alternatives that you can find if you wade through the results)

> showing videos where dislike to like ratio is very high

That's because Youtube prioritizes engagement over quality. You make more money that way.

Re: YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki is stepping down

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Post by Minor49er »

TchoBeer wrote: post #116
BitwiseFool wrote: post #101

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

As someone who looks up tutorials on various pieces of software, the dislike ratio was a pretty good indicator as to whether or not a particular video would help me do what the title of it says without me having to sit or scrub through the whole thing
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