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Unfortunately, YouTube seems to be trending away from letting people downvote stuff and having the vote mean anything. If I could see the upvotes and downvotes

Unfortunately, YouTube seems to be trending away from letting people downvote stuff and having the vote mean anything. If I could see the upvotes and downvotes before viewing something, I'd know better than to view the spam.

ziml77 5y ago
Supposedly downvoting has the opposite effect of what you'd expect. My understanding is that now downvotes count as engagement, so bad videos with tons of downvotes will actually get boosted up. And of course comments will also have the same effect so you can't leave warnings there.
- Nextgrid 5y ago
  Controversial or outrageous content is likely to generate way more "engagement" (as people fight over it and call each other names in the comments) than normal, unobjectionable content. Social networks thrive thanks to this.
- not1ofU 5y ago
  Litrally just witnessed a perfect example of this a few minutes ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMtIpjERmOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMtIpjERmOM This channels first video ^ titled (the video is 1 week old): "Jacob Collier: Music's Biggest Fraud" Likes: 102 / Dislikes: 469 I think it supposed to be satire, but doesnt come off too well. He makes a decent point about overbearing fans. I was surprised to see it in my recommended, as I dont really know of Jacob and only watched this video once, which is just 33 seconds long with the title of "when your phone rings in a jacob collier concert" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8PB0EzJ4oA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8PB0EzJ4oA So your point about engagement really rings true to me. Kinda sucks, especially when you can see the kind of... friction, it promotes (the comments section is pretty mad)
cronix 5y ago
https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/me9u5s/official_white_house_youtube_channel_for_bidens/ https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/me9u5s/official_w...
kikokikokiko 5y ago
I was "enrolled" in the Youtube experiment where I could not see the downvotes of videos for something like 3 months. I'm pretty sure it's because I am a reaaaaaaly strong believer in dislinking the videos I did not enjoy, for any reason. I always like or dislike a video, there are no exceptions, and the like/dislike ratio is paramount to my decision to watch a video or not. My solution was simple: I created another Youtube account and resubscribed to all of my channels. I simply stopped using my old account. I don't know if it was because of that or not, but 3 months later my old account could see the dislikes again. F*ck Youtube and Google.

ziml77 5y ago

Supposedly downvoting has the opposite effect of what you'd expect. My understanding is that now downvotes count as engagement, so bad videos with tons of downvotes will actually get boosted up. And of course comments will also have the same effect so you can't leave warnings there.

Nextgrid 5y ago
Controversial or outrageous content is likely to generate way more "engagement" (as people fight over it and call each other names in the comments) than normal, unobjectionable content. Social networks thrive thanks to this.
not1ofU 5y ago
Litrally just witnessed a perfect example of this a few minutes ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMtIpjERmOM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMtIpjERmOM This channels first video ^ titled (the video is 1 week old): "Jacob Collier: Music's Biggest Fraud" Likes: 102 / Dislikes: 469 I think it supposed to be satire, but doesnt come off too well. He makes a decent point about overbearing fans. I was surprised to see it in my recommended, as I dont really know of Jacob and only watched this video once, which is just 33 seconds long with the title of "when your phone rings in a jacob collier concert" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8PB0EzJ4oA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O8PB0EzJ4oA So your point about engagement really rings true to me. Kinda sucks, especially when you can see the kind of... friction, it promotes (the comments section is pretty mad)

cronix 5y ago

https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/me9u5s/official_white_house_youtube_channel_for_bidens/ https://www.reddit.com/r/walkaway/comments/me9u5s/official_w...

kikokikokiko 5y ago

I was "enrolled" in the Youtube experiment where I could not see the downvotes of videos for something like 3 months. I'm pretty sure it's because I am a reaaaaaaly strong believer in dislinking the videos I did not enjoy, for any reason. I always like or dislike a video, there are no exceptions, and the like/dislike ratio is paramount to my decision to watch a video or not. My solution was simple: I created another Youtube account and resubscribed to all of my channels. I simply stopped using my old account. I don't know if it was because of that or not, but 3 months later my old account could see the dislikes again. F*ck Youtube and Google.