I think everybody expected this. Big corp/biden news has struggled to keep up the facade lately. Look at the dislike counts here https://www.youtube.com/c/WhiteHouse/videos
Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#872There were videos with a exact issue I am searching for in the title. When the ratio to dislike to like is huge I can know that they didn't address the issue properly in the video. When they take away this functionality, I have to watch and waste my time or refer comments(if the creator didn't disable that, which is another red flag)
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#873Could someone make an external index and review site for yt videos? yt doing this is essentially yt putting their thumb on the scale, telling you that their product is good, and hiding anyone saying it's not. Generally, you must always have an outside party to review and judge a thing, not the thing itself. Probably yt would try every trademark and copyright legal attack in the book to take down any such site, but it…
> Could someone make an external index and review site for yt videos? Yes, but gaining any sort of widespread traction would be really hard. The vast majority of YT viewers won’t have your chrome extension or whatever installed and without a critical mass of ratings on the long tail of low-view videos, people will lose interest fast. Maybe if you seeded it with scraped vote counts now people would use it.
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#874Hiding the dislike info on POTUS seems important now. Hiding the dislike info on CNN seems important now. Public trust in government is low. Public trust in corporate media is low. It's been policy to manufacture consent in the US for quite a while now. Hard to say this move isn't more of the same, and it's equally hard to say it helps more than it hurts too.
Are you saying the administration itself was involved in getting this done, or that Google et al. are, of their own accord, interested in going out of their way to burn PR (and real premium subscriber dollars) to aid the administration?
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#875Hiding the dislike info on POTUS seems important now. Hiding the dislike info on CNN seems important now. Public trust in government is low. Public trust in corporate media is low. It's been policy to manufacture consent in the US for quite a while now. Hard to say this move isn't more of the same, and it's equally hard to say it helps more than it hurts too.
Are you saying the administration itself was involved in getting this done, or that Google et al. are, of their own accord, interested in going out of their way to burn PR (and real premium subscriber dollars) to aid the administration?
I'm not saying either of those things.
Look at the recent move to make auto manufacturers responsible for reducing drunk driving.
There is a growing trend to regulate through corporations. I am saying that.
I am also saying we should be questioning that trend.
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#876This 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).
So true!
The comments section feels like the people who shout or whistle while watching a movie in a theater.
Moreover, I find the videos which have commenting turned off much more enjoyable.
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#877This seems one sided. Why not hide the “like” count too and make both like and dislike counts visible only to the creators while using the individual action of each viewer for recommendations? I don’t understand why a dislike brigade could be harmful but a like brigade couldn’t be (like propaganda and/or misinformation). They seem to have considered only the impact on creators, who are a small percentage of the popul…
It's like they took the advice from the book "Nudge" a little too seriously. Also, this is a great example of why using that advice doesn't work. It presumes known intent, prescriptive purpose, characterizable frame of mind, homogeneity of these attributes, and that you have perfect, infinite information without any externalities. Classic silicon valley-brain and a great example of how these approaches are limiting and self defeating with the same smell every time
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#878Hey, Google/Youtube product managers. If you're here, read the comments and see how wrong you are and how much people will detest this change
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#879 > You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations.
I think that basing recommendations on a single dimension is flawed in its own right.
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#880This 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…
HN doesn't show dislikes and it manages to surface content better than the vast majority of aggregators and forums out there. Subreddits that remove the dislike function have much better content and levels of discourse. Removing dislikes (hiding them being step one) seems to be one of the better ways to improve the quality of content and commentary. Just for the fact that it removes the ability of a single group to b…
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