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There's a lot less decision-making involved in turning on a light, or running the faucet—it always does the exact same thing. It's hard to know in advance if an
by Wowfunhappy 5y ago
There's a lot less decision-making involved in turning on a light, or running the faucet—it always does the exact same thing. It's hard to know in advance if an article will be worth reading.
People have also had an entire century to become inured to utility pricing.
A better comparison might be data-limited cell phone plans. Even though spectrum and network capacity are legitimately scarce resources (especially in the early days), basically all of the carriers have been forced to offer some kind of quasi-unlimited data plan, where you might be throttled but you won't be charged overages, or you won't be charged on specific streaming services.
- billytetrud 5y agoThus the ratings system
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoYes, that works super well on Youtube, doesn't it? ;)
- billytetrud 5y agoYou're comparing apples to orangutans. Like, sure I get you're joking. But your joke implies that you think that youtube upvotes are at all comparable to what I'm suggesting. Its not.
- Wowfunhappy 5y agoWhy is it different? One reason I used Youtube is that they started out with a five star rating system, and moved to the current one because it worked better. Users only ever rate things either five stars or one star, when given the choice. The only exception I know if is Goodreads, where people seem to put a great deal of effort into their ratings (which I find super interesting). You might argue this is a better analog because the audience would have more overlap with newspaper readers, but people aren't going to put as much thought into a short article versus a long novel.
- billytetrud 5y ago> Why is it different? Because youtube videos aren't rewarded based on votes. People generally want creators to be rewarded for their work when its good, and they'll almost certainly put more effort into rating if they know that's how those creators get rewarded. Also, you seem to think that youtube's voting system has failed somehow. In what way do you think its failed? You do know that youtube doesn't recommend things to people based on upvotes, right? Views are what youtube cares about, not votes. Votes are mostly just for show on youtube.