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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by ep103 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:01PM (#29179863)
Reddit did this same thing, for the same reason. Can't have people disliking an advertisement posed as a submission! that would hurt Reddit's appeal to advertisers.

This was one of the major inflection points for worsening quality of content on reddit, and it will be for Youtube too. For exactly the reason you've described.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by varenc on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @03:27PM (#29180245)
Notably, HN does this too for the YC company job ads shown on the HN front page. Allowing users to comment on your job ad will inevitably lead to negative content so HN disables it.

(Though compared to reddit ads, these job listing have a very light touch. And they’re just a free perk for YC companies)

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