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Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by mcphage »

capdeck wrote: post #20
lanevorockz wrote: post #14

I think the removal of the Dislike shows one of the key problems of Social Media. They want to act as old school broadcasters in the information age. The Dislike button made companies immediately aware of the success of a campaign, something that terrified the heads of marketing. The idea is that once you remove the risk of executives to be exposed to bad publicity will go away. I don't think it will work but it show…

Democracy dies in darkness. This is another step towards the shade...

Democracy is Greek for “I can see how many people pressed the dislike button on this video”.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by breakfastduck »

dotancohen wrote: post #71
breakfastduck wrote: post #33

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

It's nothing to do with recommendations. You search a term, you look at the videos, ones with large amount of dislikes are usually crap so you choose another one.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by errantmind »

jonnycomputer wrote: post #60
ecmascript wrote: post #32

I cancelled my youtube music subscription and had that as the main reason for cancelling. You gotta vote with the wallet. But I don't honestly think google cares about what their users cares about. At least it doesn't feel that way.

I really am surprised that it matters to you that much.

Removing useful features is typically a reason to walk away. I'm really surprised you are really surprised.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by f1refly »

ecmascript wrote: post #32

I cancelled my youtube music subscription and had that as the main reason for cancelling. You gotta vote with the wallet. But I don't honestly think google cares about what their users cares about. At least it doesn't feel that way.

Google cares very much about what their users think, it's just that you're not a user, you're the product google sells.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by ehsankia »

f1refly wrote: post #48
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'…

> IMO the dislike count is useless for filtering out "bad" content I don't know what kind of content you consume on youtube, but this does not reflect my experience at all. I'm regularly researching repair/modding manuals or enthusiast videos and the dislike count is a very, very good way of telling how good a video will be. Sometimes things are done in a really bad or even dangerous way, or the whole video is just s…

I see quite a lot of news clips, and in that case, negative ratio is almost always the result of brigading. Here's an example I ran into this week: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8kqEMLiE5CU

Out of nowhere, 95% dislike ratio. Any other video on that channel has maybe 400 votes total, this was has 5K dislikes out of nowhere, very clearly some group of antivaxxers brigaded it. The video is perfectly normal and nothing out of the ordinary, so the vote count is just misleading and useless.

Re: Return YouTube dislike count

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Post by poopooracoocoo »

scohesc wrote: post #86

They're removing dislikes because of a multitude of reasons, from my own thought. 1. Movie companies don't like releasing trailers and seeing their dislike numbers reaching orbit. 2. The current US administration doesn't like the vast number of dislikes on their videos compared to likes. 3. Advertising agencies don't want their ads related to videos that have high numbers of dislikes, so google is finding "middle gro…

> they'll just keep forcing up and coming competitors out of the industry through predatory practices

They don't need to. The only alternatives to YouTube are social media platforms like Twitter, FB, IG and TikTok.

There's a million things wrong with that* but my main quarrel is that they're not searchable. YouTube may be closed off and may have a limited API but it still has discovery outside of the platform and videos can be downloaded.

*Like no one uploading let's plays, repair tutorials, indie songs, etc.

The benefit of YouTube is its past content. We're trapped.

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