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My take is that YouTube is intending for this to increase engagement, by removing signals that might push away viewers from consuming more content. If excessiv
by nonbirithm 5y ago
My take is that YouTube is intending for this to increase engagement, by removing signals that might push away viewers from consuming more content.
If excessive social media use is correlated with damage to mental health, then framing this as beneficial sounds contradictory. Now that social media platforms have reached a critical mass, they should be judged not just for being toxic and user-hostile, but also for being too effective at accepting and retaining people for excessive amounts of time.
- spyder 5y agoOr it's gonna push the angry dislikes to the comment section, increasing comments engagement but reducing the quality of the comments even more.
- crocodiletears 5y agoThe comments are already pretty low quality, and can be aggressively moderated by the company's algorithms. I doubt it'll be an issue.
- sushid 5y agoI don't really feel like the comments are that low quality anymore, at least not on the videos (cooking, tech, science) videos I enjoy watching. It's about on par with your average Reddit comment which isn't quality but again, not dumpster fire.