Making the dislike count private across YouTube

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by vlunkr on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:36PM (#29179466)

People are weirdly outraged here. Likes/Dislikes on really public platforms like reddit and youtube are just a game, they tell you nothing about the quality of something, only whether it matches the agreed upon view of the core audience. Barely anyone thinks about dislikes on youtube until there's a big event like youtube rewind.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by ncann on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @02:48PM (#29179643)

You are wrong. Every now and then I need find and watch instruction video on how to do something, like how to install my old ancient printer on Windows 10, or how to disassemble my laptop, or how to flush my water heater. If I see a bad like/dislike ratio I can know right away the video is useless.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by spentu on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:32PM (#29180302)

I have same way of estimating tutorials and similar content. There are quite many people posting videos without real understanding what they are teaching..

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by kf6nux on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @07:50PM (#29183083)

of the core voters*

There's a Venn diagram of audience and voters. Hard to know how large any of the three are, but apparently YouTube thinks the group of non-audience voters is large enough to take action against.

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