I will miss the ratio:
likes / (likes + dislikes)
I used this quite a lot for determining if a video was decent or not.
Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#112I'm always surprised at how often dislike is used on YouTube. I don't think I've ever clicked it. I probably should more for clickbait videos, but it just doesn't seem like a big problem otherwise. Like, why do people click dislike on a Justin Bieber video. I'm confident that 95% of those are people that just hate Justin -- but why then even go to the video to watch it? Just to voice your displeasure?
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#113Didn’t know that exists .youtube domain.
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#114This is really unfortunate. Since pretty much any youtube video will have likes, seeing the corresponding number of dislikes is really the only thing that provides any meaningful information.
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#115Disney's been talking to them ....
might have been Biden... Do a Biden search and look at the like/dislike ratios if you don't believe me (I can still see the dislikes on Youtube, not sure when it starts)...
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#116I don't think this is a good idea. To me one of the biggest problems with social media that propagates disinformation to large unquestioning audiences is that there are easy ways to reinforce the message and to see how much it resonates, but it is hard to gauge when an idea is controversial or if there are many people who disagree. It is worth way more to see dislike counts and ratios on dangerous content than to protect creators from the internet being mean at all costs.
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#117This still seems like a huge disconnect to what people use youtube for vs. what google thinks it should be used for. Google wants youtube to be all network and brands making content. ie. a future version of what TV is now. What actual people want is creator made videos(diy/review/podcast videos and everything else that make youtube wonderful). This disconnect has been happening since google bought youtube and this re…
It seems to me like the disconnect is between your baseless imaginary model of how youtube users behave and the objective analysis of the only party holding enough data to make a sound conclusion.
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#118That's not a feature we need. We need to know like/dislike ratio BEFORE clicking on a video so that we can avoid clicking on it. I end up clicking on so many spam videos cause Youtube doesn't tell you that simple number. For example, looking for sports highlights right after a game usually ends up with tens of spammy results with fake titles trying to take advantage of trendy topics.
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#119> We’ve also heard directly from smaller creators, and those just getting started with their YouTube channel, that they are unfairly targeted by dislike attacks. ah yes, google looking out for the little folks... someday, a technical solution like not allowing downvotes until a channel gets so many views or subscribers may be feasible, but until then, this will have to suffice
Statistically speaking there are much more small creators than large ones, so "we heard directly from smaller creators" can be used in every situation!
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#120So now I need to watch complete tutorial videos on obscure issues on YouTube to figure out if they're terrible or not?
Tutorial videos, especially, benefited from the like-dislike ratio, because if 200 people saw a video on setting up some software and 7 people liked it, but 30 people disliked it, it's pretty easy to know that that 10 minute tutorial video isn't worth watching, as it's pacing is slow, or inaccurate or missing major steps or whatever.
Neat.