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Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by ecmascript »

I cancelled my youtube music subscription and had that as the main reason for cancelling. You gotta vote with the wallet. But I don't honestly think google cares about what their users cares about.

At least it doesn't feel that way.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by breakfastduck »

tauntz wrote: post #24

This is a weirdly polarizing topic. I don't think I've ever clicked on the dislike button, personally (but I do click on the like button, occasionally). It would seem like people use the dislike button to signal that "I don't agree with the premise of the video" as much as it's to signal that "this video is actually crap". Same as with Reddit downvotes - it shouldn't be used for downvoting legit content that you don'…

Biggest miss is tutorials etc.

Dislike ratio really useful to judge which ones are not worth the time.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by Shugarl »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #17
14 wrote: post #15

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I am interested to know what your day to day experience is and what quantifies wasting ones time? What if that is the persons hobby and passion was it really time wasted or was it rewarding to the author?

Their hobby and passion is to restore Youtube's dislike button?

They likely spend enough time on YouTube to feel that the removal of the dislike count will have a negative impact on their experience.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by twa999 »

shadowgovt wrote: post #22
twa999 wrote: post #18

the new dislike count will just be spammed "dislike" comments.

At least until the system starts auto-flagging them to be hidden, yes.

there will be code or even memes, not an easy task. twitch still has problems with that, kids will always find a way around that

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by praestigiare »

tauntz wrote: post #24

This is a weirdly polarizing topic. I don't think I've ever clicked on the dislike button, personally (but I do click on the like button, occasionally). It would seem like people use the dislike button to signal that "I don't agree with the premise of the video" as much as it's to signal that "this video is actually crap". Same as with Reddit downvotes - it shouldn't be used for downvoting legit content that you don'…

I am not sure that is it reasonable or desirable (let alone possible) to treat "like" and "dislike" as signals of the quality of the video in some objective sense. It is certainly not what the everyday English usage of the words means.
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