Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
by QuietCF on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:24AM
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Downvotes are used by google to suggest content. If you downvoted something, you engaged with it, which google loves and wants more of.
The incentive for users/viewers to downvote something has always been to give other viewers a heads up. This doesn’t work anymore
Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
by HWR_14 on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @06:17PM
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Is "downvoted count as engagement and this boost the video" a documented result or just a rumor?
Re:No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me
by jimmydorry on Wednesday May 11, 2022 @01:52AM
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People respond to feedback mechanisms. If you hid comments on videos, do you think people would be as inclined to add their own comments as much when it is literally going into the void?
Previously, disliking would increment the global "dislike" counter and users got immediate visual feedback that their dislike was counted, even if that state may take minutes for Google to reconcile and store.
Now, clicking the dislike doesn't do much and users have no indication whether others disliked the content too.
I don't get that. It should have the exact same incentive to down-vote, unless you think Google no longer collects or uses that information as opposed to just hiding it.