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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by scoopertrooper on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:04PM (#29178966)
If that was truly their primary concern, why wouldn't they limit the scope of the change to smaller creators? Could it be that they were looking for a post-hoc justification for a desired policy change?
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by jedimastert on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:47PM (#29179619)
Would you trust YT to define what a "small creator" is? It opens the door to other policies being applied only to "small creators" as well, and I don't personally like that thought
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by scoopertrooper on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:51PM (#29179689)
They already apply different rules to small creators. For instance, you must have 1000 subscribers and 4000 hours of watch time per a year in order to monetise videos.
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by jedimastert on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:19PM (#29180114)
That's not even close to what "small creator" would mean on YT
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by scoopertrooper on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:23PM (#29180172)
My point was that your slippery slope argument was a bit bonkers because YouTube already has a mechanism to impose varying rules on channels based on size.
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by weberer on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:43PM (#29180470)
They already do that. They don't pay creators at all who have less than 1000 subscribers and 4000 watch hours in the past year.
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by ridaj on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:07PM (#29179942)
You also cannot have comments on videos that feature or target children
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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by jedimastert on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:21PM (#29180147)
That's a response to a legal requirement
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