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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by KaoruAoiShiho on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:05PM (#32919801)
I run https://fiction.live which has a similar recommendations function as youtube.

The key insight here is that dislikes are not the same thing as uninterested. People will dislike stories that they're interested in but think are poorly written or do not have the ending that they want it to have. If you use dislike to mean uninterested you are ruining the recommendations.

Rather you need to have a separate button that says do not recommend other content like this. That's what we do and it works out well.

Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by northes on Tuesday September 20, 2022 @09:09PM (#32919823)
That's more or less what the "not interested" button is for. The article says Mozilla tested both and they were just about equally ineffective.
Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by LatteLazy on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @04:21AM (#32922153)
Thanks for the insight, this is the most insightful comment here!