>I'd be about as upset if like counts went away but dislike counts remained. Interesting thought: why do you never just see a dislike button anywhere? >The po

>I'd be about as upset if like counts went away but dislike counts remained. Interesting thought: why do you never just see a dislike button anywhere? >The point is having both counts gives you a very useful signal. No. The point is that you really don't know how useful the signal is. Dislike buttons actively encourage bad behavior, so can create skew in the signal. That's intuitive, and also backed up by YouTube's research; hence the change here.