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Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by tinyhouse »

That'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.

I'm sure Youtube tries to down rank such videos but in practice it's still a big problem. I understand they are trying to protect creators from bad actors but negative feedback is usually more important than positive feedback.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by csee »

nickjj wrote: post #67

Bummer. I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching. If I see a 3,000 up / 48 down video on a topic I'm interested in there's a really good chance the video is great. I'm a small time creator (~13.5k subs) and don't care at all about upvotes or downvotes being public. There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the vid…

I wonder how correlated the like/view ratio is with the like/dislike ratio. If that correlation is very high we might not be losing much info. It'd just take an annoying extra second to calc the ratio.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by kyle_martin1 »

tjpnz wrote: post #107
AdrienBrault wrote: post #80

That feels like a change that will help misinformation

And crypto scams.

And hide the White House's like to dislike ratio. Check out some videos-- the ratio is horrible: https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by sofixa »

t-writescode wrote: post #120

So 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 o…

There will still be comments. On tutorial videos they're a great source of information.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by ollien »

csee wrote: post #122
nickjj wrote: post #67

Bummer. I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching. If I see a 3,000 up / 48 down video on a topic I'm interested in there's a really good chance the video is great. I'm a small time creator (~13.5k subs) and don't care at all about upvotes or downvotes being public. There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the vid…

I wonder how correlated the like/view ratio is with the like/dislike ratio. If that correlation is very high we might not be losing much info. It'd just take an annoying extra second to calc the ratio.

This would be interesting to scrape together before that part of the API goes away in December. I wonder how correlated the like/dislike ratio is to the like/view ratio. I'd imagine not very. I don't like very many videos, but I don't know about others.
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