Making the dislike count private across YouTube

Post by totalZero » Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

AYBABTME wrote: post #585

nickjj wrote: post #67

Bummer. I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching. If I see a 3,000 up / 48 down video on a topic I'm interested in there's a really good chance the video is great. I'm a small time creator (~13.5k subs) and don't care at all about upvotes or downvotes being public. There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the vid…

It depends, stuff like videos critical of foreign countries political regime end up spammed by politically sponsored griefers to delegitimize them, exactly playing to your heuristic. edit: :^)

Post by [deleted] » Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 10:27 PM UTC

Post by subsubzero » Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 10:30 PM UTC

native_samples wrote: post #276

subsubzero wrote: post #55

This still seems like a huge disconnect to what people use youtube for vs. what google thinks it should be used for. Google wants youtube to be all network and brands making content. ie. a future version of what TV is now. What actual people want is creator made videos(diy/review/podcast videos and everything else that make youtube wonderful). This disconnect has been happening since google bought youtube and this re…

It's all about Wojcicki. The fact she runs YouTube never ceases to amaze me given that she ran Google Video, which failed largely because she was obsessed with 'professional' content and bet against user generated content. That bet was wrong to such a huge extent she was reduced to recommending Google buy her only competitor. Somehow, despite this failure as an executive - a failure of the kind that got Vic Gundotra…

Post by nindalf » Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 10:30 PM UTC

AYBABTME wrote: post #585

nickjj wrote: post #67

Bummer. I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching. If I see a 3,000 up / 48 down video on a topic I'm interested in there's a really good chance the video is great. I'm a small time creator (~13.5k subs) and don't care at all about upvotes or downvotes being public. There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the vid…

It depends, stuff like videos critical of foreign countries political regime end up spammed by politically sponsored griefers to delegitimize them, exactly playing to your heuristic. edit: :^)

Post by brushfoot » Wed, Nov 10, 2021, 10:30 PM UTC

emmelaich wrote: post #590

prvc wrote: post #550

By referring to the act of disliking the video as an "attack", they are framing this change as one which protects users, when in fact, only a small minority post videos, and a smaller portion among them are bothered by dislikes. In fact, the change is user-hostile, removing one channel for users to see whether a video is of low quality (inaccurate description, containing false information, etc.), and improving advert…

You're right about the "attack" thing, but it would be no loss to remove the "Dislike" entirely. I've seen random harmless videos (bit of classical music for instance) with many dislikes. Same with Facebook btw. They should never have added anything over a mere "Like".