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Sounds like a call to duty to hit the dislike button if even slightly inclined to do so going forward.

Supermancho 5y ago
As long as you don't mind how it will affect the suggestion algorithm. The most maddening thing is when a video is of the correct topic of my interest, but I know it includes misinformation as well. If I dislike, it biases against seeing more of this topic. If I like, it might bias toward the misinformation. In practice, regardless, it seems to default rely on "leftwing vs rightwing" tags until it gets confused enough it just doesn't recommend the topic at all. What a world we live in.
- varelse 5y ago
  I just installed an extension to block all the recommendations because it wouldn't stop recommending Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro videos to me. And they have nothing new to say to me. Edit: Oh no! I admitted that because I don't want to those videos I got rid of all recommendations. So off-topic I know!
- numpad0 5y ago
  Just mash that dislikes until there is no more content creators with anything remotely uncomfortable to you. Unsarcastically. Let the algorithm designers spend their life struggling to deduce what they could ask you in plain human language for immediate response. I'm guessing that is how engineer performance is measured and rewarded for there.
  - varelse 5y ago
    Why do you assume a priori that my youtube experience must include recommendations from a biased source and why are you against viewers taking matters into their own hands to craft the youtube experience they wish? They could craft a set of hot button keywords to deliver a much better experience (i.e. if I say I don't like sports, then don't recommend sports videos) but they choose otherwise and handwave a bunch of mumbo jumbo just like what you wrote. Imagine if you could no longer choose what to watch on your TV but instead it chose for you. Are you good with that?

As long as you don't mind how it will affect the suggestion algorithm. The most maddening thing is when a video is of the correct topic of my interest, but I know it includes misinformation as well. If I dislike, it biases against seeing more of this topic. If I like, it might bias toward the misinformation. In practice, regardless, it seems to default rely on "leftwing vs rightwing" tags until it gets confused enough it just doesn't recommend the topic at all. What a world we live in.

varelse 5y ago
I just installed an extension to block all the recommendations because it wouldn't stop recommending Jordan Peterson and Ben Shapiro videos to me. And they have nothing new to say to me. Edit: Oh no! I admitted that because I don't want to those videos I got rid of all recommendations. So off-topic I know!
numpad0 5y ago
Just mash that dislikes until there is no more content creators with anything remotely uncomfortable to you. Unsarcastically. Let the algorithm designers spend their life struggling to deduce what they could ask you in plain human language for immediate response. I'm guessing that is how engineer performance is measured and rewarded for there.
- varelse 5y ago
  Why do you assume a priori that my youtube experience must include recommendations from a biased source and why are you against viewers taking matters into their own hands to craft the youtube experience they wish? They could craft a set of hot button keywords to deliver a much better experience (i.e. if I say I don't like sports, then don't recommend sports videos) but they choose otherwise and handwave a bunch of mumbo jumbo just like what you wrote. Imagine if you could no longer choose what to watch on your TV but instead it chose for you. Are you good with that?