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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by LanceH on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:20PM (#29184398)
There are way too many 15 minute videos along the lines of "How to do X in Y" which should be 30 seconds long. The downvotes are telltale for these, then the most upvoted comment tends to be, "actual answer at 13:30".

Or the video just isn't what the clickbait title says.

I get that some things get brigaded sometimes, but in my experience that's few and far between compared to false junk.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by black3r on Thursday November 11, 2021 @06:47AM (#29186935)
> There are way too many 15 minute videos along the lines of "How to do X in Y" which should be 30 seconds long.

This is why I stopped using YouTube a few years ago and heavily prefer text+image tutorials to videos nowadays. YouTube is pushing longer videos, because they show you more ads in the middle of them and creators are also rewarded with more money for longer videos + they can insert their "sponsor messages" a.k.a. even more ads.

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Re:Making the dislike count private across YouTube by lucumo on Thursday November 11, 2021 @01:43AM (#29185127)
> I get that some things get brigaded sometimes, but in my experience that's few and far between compared to false junk.

Ans quite frankly, things being brigaded probably means it's a political hot take, that's even boring when you agree, and just stupid when you don't. If you remove those from the downvoted video list, you're probably left with only a few actually insightful and useful videos.

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