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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by dijonman2 on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @12:35AM (#32920839)
It’s also about engagement and avoiding offending folks via dislikes. IMO dislikes are essential.
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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by xani_ on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @07:41AM (#32923624)
It's probably companies advertising their products getting salty their new movie or something got 90% downvotes and YT is all too eager to please its ad overlords.
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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by thejynxed on Wednesday September 21, 2022 @11:53PM (#32934628)
It started when a Joe Biden speech video got disliked into oblivion. We're talking 2 million+ dislikes.
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Re:YouTube’s ‘dislike’ barely works according to new study o... by mirekrusin on Thursday September 22, 2022 @02:02PM (#32942473)
Why not do things transparently and do weighting by default weight = upvotes - downvote + us cents paid by author, all 3 visible.
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