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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
#402Let's just host the downvote count somewhere else... all we need is a KV store, right? If we assume there are 10^10 videos there (it's surprisingly hard to find the exact numbers) and the downvote count won't go over 40 bits, then storing that data would need less than a terabyte in total. (Only half-serious. I've seen a few "upvote this comment to dislike the video" and similarly clever workarounds already, so there…
Or make a bot that leaves a "like this to dislike the video" comment on videos.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#403Earlier quoted context omitted.
My first thought is that the reason is to take the incentive away from "dislike" trolls. I reasoned that trolls got some pleasure out of seeing that ratio being skewed and it would encourage them to continue disliking videos.
Hmm, I wonder if a campaign to tell everyone to go and dislike every video they watch would gain traction. The same way Google destroyed this metric for viewers, it would destroy the usefulness for creators. Act of petty revenge for sure, and they'll probably remove you from their fiefdom for being a troll.
Why would anyone join that campaign? That would only hurt the creators they follow and damage their recommendations.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#404Earlier quoted context omitted.
Youtube Shorts (TicToc competitor) is pure evil. If I accidentally click on it I can find myself two hours later after watching hundred videos I can't even remember anymore. Sure it's high engagement, but it's truly bad for user satisfaction and long-term user retention. On top of that they blatantly and prominently push their political agenda in "news" section. But I don't think there is deep evil thinking behind di…
I find the UX for Youtube Shorts to be so horrible I don't watch more than one video a session. It doesn't support landscape, and if you make the mistake of watching it to the end it starts over but with a darkened screen, forcing you to hit Back twice to get out of it. Who the hell watches a one minute video and then goes "gee, I really want to hear just the audio from that over again right now"?
Of course it's horrible. It's a cheap copy of a Chinese app which itself is designed horribly. YouTube added the feature out of pure panic instead of try to create something better, the poor result is expectable.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#405Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#406Youtube Alternatives : Centralized : Dailymotion, Bitchute, Rumble, DTube, Vimeo, Vidlii, DLive, Triller Decentralized : Odysee(LBRY), Peertube
"welcome to odysee: we have dislikes", on their homepage lol
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#407Earlier quoted context omitted.
> YT is too vastly big for that. No it's not, it's our society that's fucked. It's our CEOs' legal requirement of fiduciary responsibility that causes these problems. YouTube was 10.9% of Google's revenue for the year 2020, with something around $19,770,000,000 of income. How many employees could Google hire to manually investigate and take action against users? Even 10% of that income to address this problem would h…
Suppose a person hired by Google is paid $60 per hour, and can review 20 video comments in that time with a reasonable thoughtfulness. So every human review costs Google $3. The entire revenue of $20B could be blown through on reviewing 6B comments. If you want to keep this activity to 10% of revenue, that caps you to 600M comments. > No it's not And I specifically said the site operators; people hired by Google to m…
Suppose a person is hired by google is paid $1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 per hour and they can review one video every 5000 years. Google is bankrupt in 8 minutes and we are all dead for thousands of years before one video is reviewed and all the economic activity of all of humanity between now and then is not enough to pay the bill for it.
GIGO, your numbers are incredibly rediculous.
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#408I really hope this backfires spectacularly on YouTube and the zealots who pushed for this change are held professionally accountable. I already click on fewer videos in search results and recommendations because I can no longer gauge how worthwhile they are to try and watch. The end result? I'm sticking to my current channels. I can't be alone and knowing that YouTube takes recommended content so seriously, I have to…
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…
What's stopping publishers from publishing to multiple platforms? Publishing is free, why wouldn't you cast a wide net to increase reach as much as possible?
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#409Let's just host the downvote count somewhere else... all we need is a KV store, right? If we assume there are 10^10 videos there (it's surprisingly hard to find the exact numbers) and the downvote count won't go over 40 bits, then storing that data would need less than a terabyte in total. (Only half-serious. I've seen a few "upvote this comment to dislike the video" and similarly clever workarounds already, so there…
> I've seen a few "upvote this comment to dislike the video" and similarly clever workarounds already
Great idea! Too bad it doesn't work if the creator disables comments...are there any ways to navigate around that obstacle?
Re: YouTube deleting comments who criticize their hiding of the dislike count
#410Of course they are!
That's how this goes. Once the door is open for censorship, it all works just like lies do, and it's often associated with lies and or hurt egos, say lack of acceptance and respect, and it tends to spread, until it's ridiculous.
And let's get real here: This whole mess is because the government and big media don't like being near constantly ratioed.
They do have the option of improving how they work and what they say, but maybe they feel it is easier to just try and hide the problems. People went away from broadcast because of this crap, and reproducing it online means people will go somewhere else again.
What it won't do is transform things into being reputable.