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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 freddie_mercury »

Pxtl wrote: post #480
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…

Seriously, the level of conspiracy-theory replies to this post is shocking. Like, this is below-reddit-level discourse. This is borderline Q stuff. And I know HN has moderation because I've been told off for flamewars. What gives?

Next time you see someone talk about how high quality the discussion is at HN and how it isn't like the rest of the internet.... Just remember this thread.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by unknownOrigin »

End of the site. There were many changes but this one will kill it in the long run. Aaaanyways, there competitors brewing up. Recently I visited Rumble, thinking "meh, one of these youtube clones again" only to be shocked that plenty of videos seem to be getting hundreds of thousands of views there. Odysee and Bitchute seem to be doing OK too? I don't know. On one hand it's sad to see Youtube go just because of Google disliking (no pun intended) that people can dislike their corporate messaging (rewind... anything biden related etc.), on the other hand Google can go to hell.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by mike741 »

Pxtl wrote: post #465

So, to clarify how HN's moderation works: Disagreeing with people vociferously: you get told off and soft-blocked from HN. Rampant conspiracy theories? Totally hunky dory. Seriously, look at the mayhem in these comment threads. This is Q-level madness.

It seems OK to me, care enough to give a specific example of a comment you'd prefer disallowed?

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by arminiusreturns »

gorwell wrote: post #383

This is another example of how the ruling class is trying to reassert control over the narrative and flow of information. Flag dissent as `misinformation`, remove comments, remove dislikes. Bit by bit, clamping down on the ability for the public to revolt.

What's amazing to me is the intellectual hoops I see otherwise smart people go through to ignore this, and often when confronted, claim refuge in apathy... I really don't get the increase in servitudinal attitudes.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by myohmy »

emkoemko wrote: post #343
post_break wrote: post #8

So now I can't quickly see if a video how-to is a complete waste of my time or not. Great.

well this will be good for flat Earthers videos, they always end up with lots of dislikes :) now more people can fall for the countless bs on youtube based on the like count and no counter showing dissent....

Oh no its better than that. All the downvotes count as engagement, so it will get recommended to other people who can only see that it has 100 likes and not 20000 dislikes.

Which means my videos can finally stop being brigaded by those damn round earthers! Spread the truth!

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by datenarsch »

whywhywhywhy wrote: post #170

What's stopping me posting "Upvote to dislike this" as a comment on every video I dislike. Cowardly move that's being presented as one thing but really there is a deeper message here.

Their comment system will bury or shadow ban your comment because it has the word dislike in it.

That's why you only ever see positive, happy high-five comments under videos anymore. The dystopian crackdown started sometime after the 2016 US election.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by kf6nux »

hstan4 wrote: post #686

> Creators: You’ll still be able to find your exact dislike counts in YouTube Studio for each video–only if you’d like to. What creator that wants to produce high quality content wouldn’t want to see how their videos are performing? Total lunacy. All this in response to “dislike attacks” which are likely extremely uncommon. > it’s an important step to reduce behavior that aims to silence and harass creators Can someo…

> [can you reasonably say rallying a mob against someone harasses or silences that person?]

Metrics would support that. A large number of humans speak less when they see their speech is unpopular.

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