Oh! the maximum expression of irony comes by seen how many dislikes that shit is getting...
Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#842it is unacceptable that goodthink content that promotes correct opinions gets ratioed and ridiculed.
the writing was on the wall for a while. this was probably the final nail in the coffin: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDcvPf78g1k
kudos to our billionaire overlords, celebrities and their first world cosmopolitan yuppie congregation for looking out for us unwashed, uneducated plebeians. without their guidance, we'd be lost.
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#843I have never ever looked at the dislike counts to judge a video. I am baffled by most of the top comments here, that express frustration or outright anger about this. I don't think like counts are relevant to me either. When I consume YouTube (and I have a premium membership which I am happy with) I either know the creator well or I have to trust the search and recommendation algorithms to give me good content for my…
Agreed, my first thought was why don’t they remove the Like button too?
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#844RIP to one of my favorite YouTube comment formats: > " of people "
For me it will be this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ussCHoQttyQ
I don't like this one, as each voter has decisively chosen one side. In aggregate, the voters are ambivalent rather than neutral. Better had it received no votes at all.
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#845This 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).
I read some comments for most videos I watch, especially Doom, standup comedy, music videos. YouTube seems to surface the funny comments and has cut down on the repetitive ones about what year it is.
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#846For me dislike speaks volumes. Googles reasoning seems to misguide people to drive more ads. Plain simple and effective. Decision to protect content creator masquerading as earn more at the expense people times. Well now we need to create new Chrome addon something for this shit.
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#847There is a video on YouTube in which YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki received the Free Expression Award (which were sponsored by YouTube). At the time of the check I just did, that video currently has 227 upvotes and over 56,000 downvotes, making it the worst ratio’ed video on YouTube I have ever seen. That incident may have played a role in this decision.
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#848Ah, they want to create a "safe and inclusive space", so all is good /s
What's this world coming to?
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#849The infuriating thing is they don't even address the loss of the count as a tool to identify crap videos.
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#850This 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).
I've found that the more the niche a video is, or the more "cultural" videos (what the masses might call "boring"), the better the comments are.
For example "Baumgartner Restoration" are decently popular at X00,000 views/video and comments are definitely civil, but it definitely doesn't target the typical youtube viewer. Game making tutorials in Godot are normally in the X,000-X0,000 range, which is "niche" for youtube, and they are normally not only civil but some times even contain useful tips!