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Return YouTube dislike count
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#62I am on Firefox and can still see the dislike count is this AB testing?
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#63Earlier 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?
No. Their hobby is to create things. To code. This is a cool project if not for you then for those who do miss the dislike button. Personally I do a lot of diy repairs. I want to know if I am wasting my time with a video.
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#64Earlier quoted context omitted.
Is it? Is there a good community alternative to Whatsapp and Facebook that is also used by people other than terrorists and right wing activists (joke)? Last time I tried to switch to an alternative, I ended up with my messaging spread out to many apps. So I ended up going back to the common denominator: Whatsapp
I message almost everyone I know on Signal. I have WhatsApp installed (no permissions) for when I need to contact someone who doesn't have it.
Oh interesting. I only had two contacts on Signal.
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#65This 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'…
Its misuse is a smaller deficiency over the larger overall benefit of it though. For every oppressed and brigaded youtuber there's dozens if not hundreds of smaller channels that make crap content that don't deserve the algorithm boost because they gamed a certain keyword.
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#66YouTube was without a dislike button for most of it’s existence - why care now?
YouTube started with a star system, right? 1-2 stars is basically a dislike, 3 stars would be "meh", and 4-5 stars would be a like.
Then they changed it to just like/dislike, because the star rating is too granular? Either way, like with Amazon, like/dislike can have as much fraud as Google/YouTube wants. Their best partners are obviously going to have more likes to help lead to more views to help lead to more advertising.
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#67Seems to me like the core of the problem is that, despite its flaws, this is one more step away from any semblance of community "moderation" at a time when trust in platforms is low. It doesn't surprise me that the issue is polarizing. At its core, the world seems split on whether platforms should take a more active role in controlling content vs allowing the market to decide.
This is YouTube protecting institutions and commerical organizations who are posting massively unpopular videos and getting ratiod, for the most part.
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#68Earlier quoted context omitted.
> IMO the dislike count is useless for filtering out "bad" content 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 s…
I do agree with you! Repair guides (and similar how-to's) are one of the genres where the dislikes are actually an indication of the quality of the content. I'm just making an assumption that most of Youtube content that's consumed, is in genres where the dislikes are more a signal of "I don't agree with you/your political view/taste of music/etc". I hope I'm wrong.
Dislike buttons in special interest topics are probably a more informative signal than they are otherwise, but I've never personally spent much time looking at the likes one way or the other. Comments are usually much more informative. E.g. "these instructions for the EG1772Z worked for my EG1781T, except that I had to pry off the plastic plate that hides the access bolt first." or "Ok video, but if he had done X first, he could have finished with half the trouble." or "Be careful prying the case loose. I broke the plastic tabs with my screw driver."
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#69 > You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations.
2021 Dislike button: Feature to inform google to show _you_ other content.
Google is hijacking user interface concepts to slowly train users to train the machine about how to train them.
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#70All kinds of ratings systems should just be removed. I have had app at Play Store for a long time. It receives only low ratings, because there is one feature missing. App itself if free and has a lot of features. How does this encourage having app at Play Store at all? It is similar at all other platforms. We need encouragement for all developers. Not dislikes.
Why don't you make that feature? Is the feature integral to the purpose? Would a normal person assume an app that supposedly solved your problem has that feature?
Its not straightforward if your app doesn't deserve low reviews or not.