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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 peakaboo »

Hahaha - I knew it was only a matter of time.

So many videos the last year has been downvoted severely because people see through all the bullshit being peddled by the mass media.

YouTube has been censoring and removing any content they can that is against the narrative being created by the mass media.

Large news stations have disabled comments on their videos to try and prevent dissent from being publicly viewable. Some of those videos has so many downvotes, it's hilarious to watch how the users are no longer sleeping and instead reacting to the bullshit.

And now, when censoring and disabling comments still can't hide the enormous dissent, they try to remove even the downvote button.

That's where we are in 2021. Pathetic.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by 3princip »

dna_polymerase wrote: post #204

I remember using dislike counts to identify math tutorials of low quality, wrong information. Now that's gone for future generations. Thanks YouTube.

I watch a lot of DIY and gardening videos. Occasionally a video gives bad or even dangerous advice and a high dislike ratio can at least indicate that something is off. Comments are also useful to figure out what the creator is doing wrong, but the dislike ratio is a big indicator. This is a terrible move.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by zkldi »

summerlight wrote: post #263

As usual, HN users are making lots of interesting assumptions (some comments to a conspiracy level) on the intention here... But in the reality, there are many smaller creators who is frequently being harassed by trolls (have you heard about those young Chinese patriots trolling over Korean and Japanese channels?) and one of their tool is the dislike button. And creators have been complaining about this for many year…

Nonsense, Creators have been able to hide their likes and dislikes for years. This is a global change that cannot be opted out of.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by louissan »

woah wrote: post #136
louissan wrote: post #110

I 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 b…

I know we're not supposed to tell people to RTFA on here... but i feel like i should tell you that they are not removing the dislike button

I have RTFA'd. Yes they are not indeed, which is nice.

but as I wrote a few minutes ago ..

./dislike > /dev/null

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by yellowbanana »

summerlight wrote: post #263

As usual, HN users are making lots of interesting assumptions (some comments to a conspiracy level) on the intention here... But in the reality, there are many smaller creators who is frequently being harassed by trolls (have you heard about those young Chinese patriots trolling over Korean and Japanese channels?) and one of their tool is the dislike button. And creators have been complaining about this for many year…

> As usual, HN users are making lots of interesting assumptions (some comments to a conspiracy level) on the intention here...

> But in the reality, there are many smaller creators who is frequently being harassed by trolls (have you heard about those young Chinese patriots trolling over Korean and Japanese channels?) and one of their tool is the dislike button. And creators have been complaining about this for many years, so I would say in fact YT was super lazy on this particular issue, but at least better late than never...

That would be an escuse.

The solution to that problem is not changing that option for the whole platform

Make targeted changes but not just change everywhere.

Removing the ability to assess how other people think of all the videos is big

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by dalmo3 »

josefresco wrote: post #165
louissan wrote: post #110

I 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 b…

From the article.. "What we learned from the experiment: Those in the experiment could still see and use the public dislike button, but because the count was not visible to them, we found that they were less likely to target a video’s dislike button to drive up the count. In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior 1. We’ve also heard directly from smaller creators, and those just g…

It's a bit obvious that removing the visible effects of an interaction will discourage that interaction.

Would you write a comment if it was only visible to the creator?

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