Making the dislike count private across YouTube

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by jjice on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:04PM (#29181555)

Absolutely. This is exactly the kind of thing that creators should be able to opt-in to, just like disabling comments. Very disappointed to see this shielding of everyone's eyes from videos. If a creator wanted to opt to hide it, sure, but flat out hiding it is unfortunate.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by MereInterest on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:41PM (#29181951)

Why would be poster of a video receive special privilege for videos that they post? That would be like a seller being allowed to remove unfavorable reviews of their product. That the reviews are not under the control of the seller/poster is the only reason that they would be useful at all.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by jowsie on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @05:54PM (#29182091)

Uploaders have had this ability for a while now already.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by MereInterest on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @08:06PM (#29183214)

As others have pointed out, uploaders had the ability to block voting entirely, but couldn't adjust visibility of positive/negative votes separately. There's a huge difference between a video with +10k/-10 and a video with +10k/-100k. Displaying both identically gives a deliberately false equivalence.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by tempestn on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:43AM (#29185129)

I suppose we still have upvotes as a percentage of views to fill in some of the gap.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by MereInterest on Thursday November 11, 2021 @07:47AM (#29187312)

True, though that still makes it ambiguous whether content in a video is heinous, or merely boring.

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