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Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by sharklazer »

bigyellow wrote: post #713
netcan wrote: post #604

The trend continues... Tiktok pushed the passive user experience further, and youtube is following. The ideal is user launches app, the app takes care of everything else. Looking at the downvote count is just an extra thing the user can, might or should do. The trend is to reduce these. Youtube's being trendy.

That's a charitable interpretation. I posit these products are actually designed to further diminish the range of thought and serve to eliminate discontent, resistance and ultimately political opposition.

The only videos I have seen with downvotes that outweigh upvotes are politically controversial.

I’m surprised they didn’t do this sooner to be honest, thought they’ve been letting news outlets turn them off for some time now.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by gnicholas »

dingle_thunk wrote: post #706

There's a like button and no dislike button on the freaking blog post. Can you imagine the dislike ratio on this if they allowed it?

There’s a flag button. Also, there’s no way to disable comments, so people can easily express their opinions in long form as well.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by OisinMoran »

bsder wrote: post #676
inChargeOfIT wrote: post #647

This will make the site useless for finding new content and content creators. And what's the point of a Like count without a Dislike count? I'll just assume every video has as many, if not more, dislikes and will turn to other sources for finding quality content (if at all). And they might as well get rid of the comments section too cause that's where people will voice their opinions.. but maybe that's part of the pl…

Personally, I'd rather they keep the dislike count and dump the comments section. I can probably count the number of times I've come across a comments section on YouTube that hasn't been a dumpster fire of idiocy on two hands (and I'm being generous).

Whoa now, steady on! The comments on YouTube are one of my favourite parts and I would miss them much more than the dislikes (don't really pay much attention to those but do seem useful).

I'm guessing you don't listen to much music on YouTube then? The great comments honestly at least double the enjoyment. E.g https://youtu.be/q4xKvHANqjk

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by simias »

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…

I always found this information rather useless myself, so I don't see it as a huge deal. More often that not when I see a video with tons of dislike it's because it's been brigaded by an adversarial community and not really an indicator of the value of the content. In my experience it's more of a "controversial opinion" indicator than a "bad video" indicator.

>There's only been a handful of videos out of hundreds that received more downvotes than expected because the video was posted on a place out of my control and folks didn't like that.

My point exactly. So if I get what you say, most of your videos have a fairly inconsequential amount of downvotes, and those that do are not because they're poor quality but rather because it's been disliked by people who weren't your target audience.

If that's your experience as a content creator how can you, as a viewer, consider the like/dislike ratio a good indication of the quality of the content?

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by JetAlone »

throwuxiytayq wrote: post #531
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…

I just canceled my premium subscription. I'm not taking this lightly, YT has been an important part of my life for as long as I can remember. But at this point it feels like the responsibile thing to do is to vote with my wallet. Not that a change in course is likely; their leadership has been hell bent on ruining the platform for years.

I've cancelled mine as well.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by sojournerc »

bsder wrote: post #676
inChargeOfIT wrote: post #647

This will make the site useless for finding new content and content creators. And what's the point of a Like count without a Dislike count? I'll just assume every video has as many, if not more, dislikes and will turn to other sources for finding quality content (if at all). And they might as well get rid of the comments section too cause that's where people will voice their opinions.. but maybe that's part of the pl…

Personally, I'd rather they keep the dislike count and dump the comments section. I can probably count the number of times I've come across a comments section on YouTube that hasn't been a dumpster fire of idiocy on two hands (and I'm being generous).

Really depends on the content. I love surfing comments on a lot of videos (even dash cam vids, hehe).

I see a lot of positive comments for my favorite creators too. Would hate to get rid of the encouragement.

Re: Making the dislike count private across YouTube

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Post by ravenstine »

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…

Similarly, I also like watching videos that have a high dislike-to-like ratio because that tells me the video might be about something I'll appreciate that the rest of the public doesn't.
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