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What bothers me is that the title is even a little misleading. They're removing the count of dislikes (which obviously has an impact) but the dislike feature it

What bothers me is that the title is even a little misleading. They're removing the count of dislikes (which obviously has an impact) but the dislike feature itself is still there.

shuntress 6y ago
>What bothers me is that the title is even a little misleading. This is the exact type of comment I'm talking about. This does very little to contribute to discussion while simultaneously implying an undercurrent of conspiracy. Why even bother pointing this out? It's extremely minor at most and the link is to twitter.com. It's not as if it would take long to read the link. Just the second part of you comment: >They're removing the count of dislikes (which obviously has an impact) but the dislike feature itself is still there. would have sufficed.
justAnIdea 6y ago
The like/dislike feature IS NOT for the creator. Whatever Youtube claims now, the ratio always served as an indicator to other users of the platform first, feedback to the creator second. Not to mention that the way you say "i mean, you can still click a button" is incredibly elitist, dismissive and undemocratic. Having a dislike feature without publicly showing the ratio is a political equivalent of saying "Well we can't have these bottom feeders voting on something and seeing the results. We'll let them vote, sure, but then dupm the ballots into a landfill."... Anyways I'm pretty sure all this pleading to democracy and freedom will fall on deaf ears since the powers that control the US government and big tech (and I don't mean the democrats, I mean the progressives) are obsessed with control and limiting speech. I don't doubt some of these people even think dislikes are disinfo campaigns probably done by Trump voters (which is kinda implied in the tweet) and thus need to be erased from the record.

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What bothers me is that the title is even a little misleading. They're removing the count of dislikes (which obviously has an impact) but the dislike feature it

by mrzimmerman 6y ago

What bothers me is that the title is even a little misleading. They're removing the count of dislikes (which obviously has an impact) but the dislike feature itself is still there.

shuntress 6y ago
>What bothers me is that the title is even a little misleading. This is the exact type of comment I'm talking about. This does very little to contribute to discussion while simultaneously implying an undercurrent of conspiracy. Why even bother pointing this out? It's extremely minor at most and the link is to twitter.com. It's not as if it would take long to read the link. Just the second part of you comment: >They're removing the count of dislikes (which obviously has an impact) but the dislike feature itself is still there. would have sufficed.
justAnIdea 6y ago
The like/dislike feature IS NOT for the creator. Whatever Youtube claims now, the ratio always served as an indicator to other users of the platform first, feedback to the creator second. Not to mention that the way you say "i mean, you can still click a button" is incredibly elitist, dismissive and undemocratic. Having a dislike feature without publicly showing the ratio is a political equivalent of saying "Well we can't have these bottom feeders voting on something and seeing the results. We'll let them vote, sure, but then dupm the ballots into a landfill."... Anyways I'm pretty sure all this pleading to democracy and freedom will fall on deaf ears since the powers that control the US government and big tech (and I don't mean the democrats, I mean the progressives) are obsessed with control and limiting speech. I don't doubt some of these people even think dislikes are disinfo campaigns probably done by Trump voters (which is kinda implied in the tweet) and thus need to be erased from the record.