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> I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching You summarized why Youtube is doing it. Sure harassment is one aspect of i

> I often use like vs dislike ratios as a gauge on whether a video is worth watching You summarized why Youtube is doing it. Sure harassment is one aspect of it, but this drives up the clicks for Youtube and therefore the ad revenue. I'd be curious to see if people get overly annoyed by how many unworthy videos they watch and thereby reducing overall engagement.

washadjeffmad 5y ago
Then why not keep counts and ratios optional?
- flyingchipmann 5y ago
  That's the f*** up part. It's already optional. The owner can choose not to show it
epolanski 5y ago
Harassment could be solved in way saner ways, like detecting unusual peaks of dislikes at some content.
heavyset_go 5y ago
> I'd be curious to see if people get overly annoyed by how many unworthy videos they watch and thereby reducing overall engagement. A popular streaming service inflates the ratings of the content offered on its service to the point that I'm hesitant to use it that much.
chelical 5y ago
Without the like vs dislike ratio, I'm less likely to use Youtube. I'm already using Bing and Google to search for videos b/c they absolutely botched their search experience.
- pharke 5y ago
  I've started using Bing more and more as well. I never thought I'd see the day.
enaaem 5y ago
Channels can already disable the like and dislike bar.
pharke 5y ago
The changes they've made over the years have made a huge difference in the amount I use it. I used to often spend a lot of time discovering new channels and videos and overall just enjoying entertaining content. Compared to today, I've uninstalled the YouTube app from my phone and when I visit the site in a browser I generally ignore the homepage and just search for updates on the content I'm interested in, watch one video if I can find anything that looks relevant and then close the page. If their goal is to show more ads, they're shooting themselves in the foot.

washadjeffmad 5y ago

Then why not keep counts and ratios optional?

flyingchipmann 5y ago
That's the f*** up part. It's already optional. The owner can choose not to show it

epolanski 5y ago

Harassment could be solved in way saner ways, like detecting unusual peaks of dislikes at some content.

heavyset_go 5y ago

> I'd be curious to see if people get overly annoyed by how many unworthy videos they watch and thereby reducing overall engagement. A popular streaming service inflates the ratings of the content offered on its service to the point that I'm hesitant to use it that much.

chelical 5y ago

Without the like vs dislike ratio, I'm less likely to use Youtube. I'm already using Bing and Google to search for videos b/c they absolutely botched their search experience.

pharke 5y ago
I've started using Bing more and more as well. I never thought I'd see the day.

enaaem 5y ago

Channels can already disable the like and dislike bar.

pharke 5y ago

The changes they've made over the years have made a huge difference in the amount I use it. I used to often spend a lot of time discovering new channels and videos and overall just enjoying entertaining content. Compared to today, I've uninstalled the YouTube app from my phone and when I visit the site in a browser I generally ignore the homepage and just search for updates on the content I'm interested in, watch one video if I can find anything that looks relevant and then close the page. If their goal is to show more ads, they're shooting themselves in the foot.