Making the dislike count private across YouTube

Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by anonu on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @09:54PM (#29183930)

Seems like a bit disproportionate reaction. Most of YouTube's value is in the videos.. not the dislike counter. Help me understand the trade-off here...

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by MMS21 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:59AM (#29187001)

Have you ever tried watching a tutorial and come across one that has a ton of dislikes? Its a clear indicator that the video is a waste of time. Removing this is going to waste peoples time.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by pwdisswordfish8 on Friday November 12, 2021 @11:36PM (#29207403)

> Removing this is going to waste peoples time.

The term of art is ‘increase engagement’.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by rgrs on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @10:16PM (#29184088)

Video's value is in dislike counter. It helps in assessing content from new/smaller studios.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by stjohnswarts on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @10:34PM (#29184177)

Yeah, I'm actually behind this one. There's enough negativity on the internet, if youtube lose 0.25% of their premium subscribers they'll still be just fine. I doubt if much more than that will drop their subscriptions as the main value is lots less ads and premium-only content.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by MMS21 on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:57AM (#29186991)

If you cant deal with the negativity then stop making videos, its that simple.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by weeblewobble on Thursday November 11, 2021 @02:41PM (#29192194)

By the same token, if you can't deal with people who don't want to deal with negativity then stop using YouTube. It's that simple

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