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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by kingcharles on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:10PM (#29179062)
That's an interesting point. Why can this feature not be video or channel specific so that a creator who is being targetted could switch off the count if they wanted?
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by politician on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:20PM (#29180132)
Plausible deniability. If a creator turns off dislikes on a particular video, that's a strong signal that they're producing propaganda or have a thin skin. If YT does it for them, for everyone, then affected creators can just shrug and pretend like they definitely would never turn off dislikes.
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by winternett on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @04:54PM (#29181448)
That's not the only reason for turning off downvotes... I'm a musician, and have dealt before with competing musicians downvoting me in hopes of driving my videos below theirs. Or occasionally someone can share a video publicly and initial response is based on brigading or just not well received. The display of lots of downvotes before views are properly accumulated can cause bias towards the content. Things were just fine when creators had the control over whether or not to show dislikes.

Many creators use Youtube for different purposes. Youtube does a big injustice because they don't fairly separate content based on the type of entity that's posting content enough (i.e. an indie music producer versus a big industry music company or indie vlogger living in their parent's house versus a well funded TV news channel).

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by mrslave on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:24PM (#29184413)
> I'm a musician, and have dealt before with competing musicians downvoting me in hopes of driving my videos below theirs.

This implies there are more competing creators than total viewers.

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by winternett on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:45AM (#29184822)
Well there are also several individual niches where the competition can play out in very personal ways as well. I work within a specific sub genre of music, and more often than not that entire niche sometimes operates based on "small town" politics.

I still do it for the passion, not much profit has ever been there... har.

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by Nemrod67 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @12:23PM (#29190509)
would you mind sharing a link? there's no youtube link in your bio.

I promise not to give a thumb down XD

always interested to check out other's work :)

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by winternett on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:11PM (#29191825)
https://www.youtube.com/c/RuffTuffRecordings/videos

Sure friend, fair warning though, I'll probably delete this in a day or so to avoid an ID trail of people that might scan my posts later on... The Internet can be vengeful a times even if I am not so. :P

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by cruano on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:04PM (#29181558)
"Am I out of touch? No, it's the children who are wrong."
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by tlear on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:44PM (#29183033)
Because it has nothing to do with it. Explanation is a fig leaf. Check White house videos and see the real reason
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by alpaca128 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:50PM (#29179670)
That's already possible. Content creators can turn off comments and/or votes for any video.
Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by Aachen on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:11PM (#29179986)
Not just dislikes though, or?