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Re:YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior by notenoughbeans on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:27PM (#20185941)
That only works for a specific usecase. I've been looking at videos on how to drywall. Views and upvotes helped me find the most useful instructionals and skip the bad ones.
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Re:YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior by lstamour on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:30PM (#20185972)
I often find the upvote to downvote ratio to be a higher sign of quality than purely the number of upvotes. If they showed me the ratio, I still might get the same value from it.
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Re:YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior by notenoughbeans on Friday June 14, 2019 @03:35PM (#20186016)
The ratio is important too, but the vote count is important.

I interpret 4 upvotes and 1 downvote much differently than 4000 upvotes and 1000 downvotes.

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Re:YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavior by lstamour on Friday June 14, 2019 @04:46PM (#20186544)
While I agree there isn’t much signal in 1:1 and 4:1, it’s been my experience that if a video gets a downvote that quickly, it probably isn’t as good as a video only attracting upvotes for educational, howto or technical content.
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