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Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by dotancohen »

breakfastduck wrote: post #33
tauntz wrote: post #24

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.

If I come across a low-quality rip of Dark Side of the Moon and dislike it, will Youtube recommend to me less Pink Floyd or less low quality rips? What if I dislike that horrible Barenboim performance of Beethoven's Ninth? Will I get less Beethoven or less horrible performances? What about reports of Israel killing Gazan children, when the video footage clearly shows children killed when a Hamas projectile they were "guarding" prematurely detonated? Do I get less news or less lies? What about that idiot who knows a lot about cars and car history (Donut maybe) but screams and acts like he graduated from Animal House? Do I get less informative car videos or less puerile screaming and sentences composed of 15 cuts, sometimes right in the middle of a compound word?

I think that basing recommendations on a single dimension is flawed in its own right.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by LegitShady »

throwawaygh wrote: post #52

Can someone explain why this matters so much to so many people? I'm genuinely perplexed. I'm not a regular YT user, let alone content creator, and basically treat YT like any other video hosting service. So I definitely leave open the possibility that I might be be missing something. But the extreme responses in some of these comment threads give me the distinct impression that there must be money on the line or some…

Its about the user experience which is why you don't seem to understand if looking at it like any other video hosting service.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by shadowgovt »

twa999 wrote: post #36
shadowgovt wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

At least until the system starts auto-flagging them to be hidden, yes.

there will be code or even memes, not an easy task. twitch still has problems with that, kids will always find a way around that

Definitely. I look forward to the measure / counter-measure fight.

... but this is the same company that currently owns the top-tier solution for ad spam and ad fraud; I expect them to be slightly harder to defeat than Twitch.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by nerevarthelame »

pif wrote: post #10
azth wrote: post #2

Hopefully the community will come together and figure out a good solution for the mess that YT is creating.

Hopefully the community has something more interesting in their life to care about.

It is absolutely worth caring about. YouTube's feedback to users is monumentally important, as it's the go-to source of video-based information for hundreds of millions of people. It has the potential to feed people really toxic content.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by Crosseye_Jack »

bpodgursky wrote: post #43
Crosseye_Jack wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

God. Even if you buy the "social experience" argument (which I don't really), removing it from the API for non-owners is just malicious.

Well the reason they state in the email is "To make the dislike count private across the platform, we also will be removing public access to the dislike count data via our API."

But if you have a system that doesn't display the dislike count publicly you can apply for a exemption.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by systemvoltage »

There is so much glib defense in this thread:

1) I’ve never used this feature

2) People have nothing better to do with their time

3) Why do you care so much

Can someone explain why this is a good decision by YT without low blows? Why is this even a polarizing topic?

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by 14 »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #17
14 wrote: post #15

Earlier 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?

Also my first coding was a raspberry pi connected to a relay and a lamp and an infrared sensor. If you walked in front of the sensor the lamp blinked SOS in Morse code then it emailed me saying motion detected in your room. The project really had little use to me as I don’t need to guard my room but the reward when it actually worked was something I can’t really explain other then to say super satisfying.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by tasogare »

tauntz wrote: post #24

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'…

It's a dislike button, the reverse of like button, so it's normal people use it for content they dislike, including political content.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by xet7 »

LegitShady wrote: post #70
xet7 wrote: post #54

All 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.

I'm not yet sure adding that feature be possible, how complex it would be to add it, or would it cause security issues or other problems.

There is already easy workaround to have that kind of feature already.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by twa999 »

tytso wrote: post #57
twa999 wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

yes, they removed the dislike count to shield creators from "attacks" to improve their mental health, so the only one you can see it now is the creator. YT is either very stupid or their lying about their motive. I wonder which one is it.

Or commenters aren't bothering to do basic research before mouthing off on ycombinator? To quote from https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/134791097/update-t... "Developers: If you’re using the YouTube API for dislikes, you will no longer have access to public dislike data beginning on December 13th. Your end users will still be able to view dislike data related to their own content on authenticated API requests…

> their own content on authenticated API requests

of course you can still see your OWN dislike but not the overall ratio, but the uploader can see that. what's your point exactly

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