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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?
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 feel like this would only apply to a few areas that are highly polarized (COVID stuff, political, etc.). But the vast majority of content I (and most people) watch does not fall into heavily polarized topics like that and the risk of brigading is zero.
Currently we're using youtube API to get dislikes count ...so they just hid it from the user, and the actual number is still there if you know where to look? That's surprising.
The public dislike count will be removed from the API next month unless the api call is authed with an account associated with the channel.
I think the removal of the Dislike shows one of the key problems of Social Media. They want to act as old school broadcasters in the information age. The Dislike button made companies immediately aware of the success of a campaign, something that terrified the heads of marketing. The idea is that once you remove the risk of executives to be exposed to bad publicity will go away. I don't think it will work but it show…
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.
I think the removal of the Dislike shows one of the key problems of Social Media. They want to act as old school broadcasters in the information age. The Dislike button made companies immediately aware of the success of a campaign, something that terrified the heads of marketing. The idea is that once you remove the risk of executives to be exposed to bad publicity will go away. I don't think it will work but it show…
Democracy dies in darkness. This is another step towards the shade...
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'…
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 don't know what kind of content you consume on youtube, but this does not reflect my experience at all. I'm regularly researching repair/modding manuals or enthusiast videos and the dislike count is a very, very good way of telling how good a video will be. Sometimes things are done in a really bad or even dangerous way, or the whole video is just someone describing the problem and then skipping the actual fix.
The only other place I've seen dislikes is at pr videos that went viral for their outright offensive hypocrisy or otherwise badly formulated message, which I wouldn't call a bad use either.