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Making the dislike count private across YouTube
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#912Bummer. 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…
Exactly, how will I figure now that a 20 min video has no content promised in the title? How many times I looked for guidance on YouTube on some software, or cooking recipe or some rare clip, just to find out it was not what I was looking for by the dislikes? Now I’ll have to watch ”fix your xxx with this easy trick” at 2x speed to know it was crap.
SponsorBlock has a video highlight part option now, as more users start submitting it, you could use that to judge.
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#913> You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations. 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, wh…
I just went to Youtube's homepage for the first time in ages, to see what it would recommend for me. I saw maybe a dozen suggested videos just to check it out.
And I would say that all but two had either a misleading title or a misleading thumbnail. These are things directly related to my interests: self defense, computer security, lockpicking, spaceflight, physics, automobiles. But other than the young man talking about SpaceX (Marcus House) and the Lock Picking Lawyer, every single video had either a title that misrepresented or completely lied about the content, or a very attractive thumbnail that was barely tangentially associated with the content.
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#914From the fine article:
> You can still dislike videos to further personalize and tune your recommendations.
2021 Dislike button: Feature to inform google to show _you_ other content.
Google is hijacking user interface concepts to slowly train users to train the machine about how to train them.
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#915> In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior
"attacking behavior"? This tone is giving me some weird feelings.
Here is a constructive opinion: Add it as an optional feature. Let the publisher select "Display both like and dislike counts", "Display only like counts" and "Don't display both count". YouTube has already implemented the "Display both" and "Hide both" option in their "Studio"/video manage page, they just need to add a new one.
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#916This is insane.
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#917> In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior "attacking behavior"? This tone is giving me some weird feelings. Here is a constructive opinion: Add it as an optional feature. Let the publisher select "Display both like and dislike counts", "Display only like counts" and "Don't display both count". YouTube has already implemented the "Display both" and "Hide both" option in their "St…
I had the exact same reaction after reading
> We’ve also heard directly from smaller creators, and those just getting started with their YouTube channel, that they are unfairly targeted by dislike attacks.
How do they know that? I hate to be rude but what if people genuinely don't like the content? Of course maybe someone said upfront "I am dislike bombing this video with my 100 youtube accounts" but otherwise it's not clear to me how people are differentiating between an attack and a genuine expression of opinion (though an admittedly rather coarse one).
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#918Cool, now I can't dislike a video, instead I'll just commment "this video sucks" on every video that I don't find useful.
Surely this change doesn't solve anything?
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#919> In short, our experiment data showed a reduction in dislike attacking behavior "attacking behavior"? This tone is giving me some weird feelings. Here is a constructive opinion: Add it as an optional feature. Let the publisher select "Display both like and dislike counts", "Display only like counts" and "Don't display both count". YouTube has already implemented the "Display both" and "Hide both" option in their "St…
This will not work, because then people will assume that everyone who disables dislikes does it for reasons of bad content, not because of cybermobbing or similar reasons. Disabling it for all is a social solution to protect everyone together.
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#920They should also remove comments at this point.