What do people want? On the one hand you have misinformation and psychological harm that social media causes people and all the people complaining about that, and on the other hand you have heavily curated/censored content to try and craft a specific experience on a platform, and all the people complaining about that. So what actually do people want social media companies to do? Hands off or hands on? You can't have both.
YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
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Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#152Earlier quoted context omitted.
>You can get better feedback on whether a video is bad by skimming comments. But many videos disabled comments while the dislikes count was still visible to help decide. >You should also acknowledge that you may like content that is unpopular (highly disliked videos For non-politics or non-music videos such as how-to tutorials or product reviews, I've never experienced this. The crowdsourced dislikes was a very accur…
Disabled comments is a very strong signal in its own right. Ratings can also be disabled and usually are as well. Either way, it is still very easy to discern whether the video you are about to watch is controversial.
>Disabled comments is a very strong signal in its own right.
It might be but often it's not. A common reason comments are disabled is that a female is in it which invites rude sexist remarks. For example, there was some advanced math university lectures taught by female professors and every one of them was spammed with "men of culture, we meet here again". Understandably, the channel later disabled the comments out of respect for those women but at least the dislike numbers were still visible.
>, it is still very easy to discern whether the video you are about to watch is controversial.
No, it's actually cumbersome and wastes extra time to determine if many how-to videos are bad quality without a dislike count. That's why so many are irritated that Youtube removed it.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
This site also has 100% CPU usage on idle for some reason.
Mining coin?
I don't think so, my cpu is fine, doesn't use any more than youtube uses. I think the poster must have something wrong with their browser. I've seen more than a couple of people who got kicked off youtube move to odysee as they are much less aggressive on removing content. They also have downvoting.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#154Next update: removed comments.
Big companies need comments for astroturfing, Google will keep them.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#155Earlier quoted context omitted.
TikTok is targeting a different type of content, there is no competition with YouTube as we know it, which is videos longer than 10 minutes.
When the timing is right tic toc could pivot to longer videos.
Longer videos aren't suited to the tiktok formula(endless feed of videos and you where you never know what's next). It works for 30 second video, maybe for 3 minute video, not for two hour video and not even for twenty minute video.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#156Do people actually look at the votes before watching a video? I don't think I've ever done that on YouTube. The outrage over this just seems so manufactured to me.
Yeah it's definitely a vocal minority. I bet there is next to no drop in traffic on youtube or in ad revenue. For youtube it's probably a public opinion win.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#157Sounds like his account has been put into some sort of shadowban mode, which is needed for the {human|bot} spammers out there (not that I know why it would be applied to them).
Shadowbanning is pretty useless for spammers, the pain they receive by getting one of their hundred bot accounts made invisible is nothing compared to the pain the real person gets.
Shaddowbanning should be like the justice system, it is better to let a a hundred guilty go unpunished than to convict one innocent person.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#158Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube doesn't f*** care. Where are you going to go watch your favorite content creators? Oh, they only upload on our platform? Thought so. They can do whatever they want and they won't lose a single user. In fact, I wanted to cancel my Youtube Premium, but I know it's not gonna affect their decision in the slightest, while I will hurt my favourite content creators as they won't get that thousandth of a cent they ge…
Some of the more well-known YouTube creators are also on - Curiosity Stream/Nebula (Adam Neely, Mary Spender, Ali Abdaal, Thomas Frank, Super Bunnyhop) - LBRY/odysee (DistroTube) - FloatPlane (Linus Tech Tips) None of these has a nice recommender like YouTube, so you'll likely either have manual curation (Nebula, Floatplane) or drown in a sea of bad/uninteresting content (LBRY)
Your list also doesn’t have a single YouTuber I actually watch. Well known or not, viewers have very fractured tastes.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#159Do people actually look at the votes before watching a video? I don't think I've ever done that on YouTube. The outrage over this just seems so manufactured to me.
Honestly, I was surprised to find that I miss the downvotes. I did quickly use it as a sort of gauge of "is this chopped or not".
what does "is this chopped" mean? Is this a new Gen Z term that I've yet to hear?
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#160Next update: removed comments.
I support such a move. YouTube comments have always been trash.