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Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#102And when people stop hitting the dislike button cos they feel it doesn't count, Youtube would retire the dislike button, citing low usage.
It doesn't really matter if they remove it or not. Perceptions are what matter. People will be able to upload videos that are disconnected from what most people believe or actually want and there's no way to show that you don't agree with the video. And I begin to believe its me that's wrong, when I might be in the silent majority. Then YT can control the algorithm further obfuscating popular beliefs and culture.
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#103And when people stop hitting the dislike button cos they feel it doesn't count, Youtube would retire the dislike button, citing low usage.
They have been steadily moving towards recommendation engines that rely more on inferred behaviors than direct feedback for a long time. I'm surprised they didn't just completely eliminate dislikes. That aside, timing sure is interesting given the recent Nintendo fiasco. Wonder how much they spend on ads each quarter.
There have been many other high-profile examples of fiascos dealing with the 'dislike' button on YouTube.
Most notable, I think, would have to be the Biden administration's [0] challenges they're facing with the official White House YouTube account.
[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/OutOfTheLoop/comments/mczlz7/whats_...
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#104This isn’t about small content creators. It’s almost certainly about big brands (advertisers) that hate it when their high budget movie/game/trailer/whatever gets publicly downvoted.
Yup. I guess I'll use Youtube less, then. The downvote ratio contains so much information as to what video is garbage. Less than 80% approval -> I don't watch. I use a Ratings Preview chrome extension to show me the downvotes next to the thumbnails, and it will be rendered useless. I guess I'll just stop getting into Youtube rabbitholes now. Maybe it is a blessing in disguise.
Note: the downvote ratio is a noisy (and sometimes misleading) signal.
From my personal perspective, most vaccine related videos have high % of dislikes. And bunch of videos implying Ivermectine as a cure videos have a high % of likes. I think the dislike ratio is not as valuable to many of these videos.
Disclaimer: My views are my own, and not of my employer.
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#105This isn’t about small content creators. It’s almost certainly about big brands (advertisers) that hate it when their high budget movie/game/trailer/whatever gets publicly downvoted.
Just like when Netflix removed their star ratings with a only a thumbs up.
And a thumbs down, no?
That being said, there is no globally-visible '%age of viewers like this' value on each title. Instead, thumbs up/down seems to be used as probably one of many signals in the '% match' (how likely are you to enjoy it) metric.
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#106Twitter users solved this with the "ratio"
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#107That feels like a change that will help misinformation
And crypto scams.
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#108Sounds like they're taking "you're not allowed to disagree" from 1984 to heart.
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#109And when people stop hitting the dislike button cos they feel it doesn't count, Youtube would retire the dislike button, citing low usage.
Or the opposite will happen and they'll hit it more because they won't feel as guilty because the count isn't public
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#110I find this pathetic. As if the removal of the "dislike button" helps in any way, shape or form to create a more "inclusive" environment.
This reeks of the silencing of what is perceived as dissident voices, is all.
I've personally never hit a like or dislike button in my life, never will ... but found it interesting as a viewer to see the ratio. Even knowing this ratio is probably at least partially the outcome of bot farms and the like.
Disney, DC Comics and the like must've complained about bad ratings/unfavourable like/dislike ratios I guess..
Let's try and see this as a tangent/bastard child of Newspeak. What better way too have people forget about something than to remove its linguistic manifestation from the dictionary? Same thing here, except people's way of expressing their approval/refusal. Google and the like are literally after the ultimate "macdonaldification" of people - cattle unable to say "NO".
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Have a great day all :-)