Making the dislike count private across YouTube

Post by mitigating » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 3:33 AM UTC

rgrs wrote: post #804

simias wrote: post #734

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 tha…

> brigaded by adversial community Not necessarily. There are other cases where consumers could use dislike as form of brand boycott

Post by mythrwy » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 3:37 AM UTC

Post by xeromal » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 3:39 AM UTC

kf6nux wrote: post #719

greatgib wrote: post #712

> Clearly a flawed conclusion. For the result of their experiment they deduced what they wanted it to say. Because we can easily say that the effect is not "dislike attacking" but other effects: - shy people more afraid to give their opinion not knowing that others have done the same. - the feature feeling useless, as even if you dislike, you might thing that you click will worth nothing as no one will see it. Imagin…

I suspect their dataset was direct link dislikes. I.e. people who arrived at YouTube from another site at a specific video who dislike the video. That's the characteristic of a coordinated dislike campaign. > the feature feeling useless, as even if you dislike, you might thing that you click will worth nothing as no one will see it That was exactly the point. They didn't want the attack mobs seeing the fruits of thei…

Post by shadowgovt » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 3:50 AM UTC

greatgib wrote: post #712

> Clearly a flawed conclusion. For the result of their experiment they deduced what they wanted it to say. Because we can easily say that the effect is not "dislike attacking" but other effects: - shy people more afraid to give their opinion not knowing that others have done the same. - the feature feeling useless, as even if you dislike, you might thing that you click will worth nothing as no one will see it. Imagin…

Post by [deleted] » Thu, Nov 11, 2021, 3:52 AM UTC

XCSme wrote: post #776

greatgib wrote: post #712

> Clearly a flawed conclusion. For the result of their experiment they deduced what they wanted it to say. Because we can easily say that the effect is not "dislike attacking" but other effects: - shy people more afraid to give their opinion not knowing that others have done the same. - the feature feeling useless, as even if you dislike, you might thing that you click will worth nothing as no one will see it. Imagin…

Yes, the conclusion makes no sense. "We removed the dislike button. This resulted in a reduction in dislikes, people are happier."