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> The dislike button is like the booo's at a stadium. Removing all negative feedback removes the public ability to respond negatively to a video. They neither

• darkerside 5y ago
  They just silenced the audio of the telecast
• Dylan16807 5y ago
  That's moving the goalpost. They're removing all negative feedback in public. And even then, saying they didn't disable the button is only arguably true. The button no longer performs its primary function.
  • mcphage 5y ago
    > That's moving the goalpost. I'm not the one moving the goalpost—it started as "reality is moving towards 1984", then "they removed the ability to give negative feedback", and now it's "they removed the ability to see the negative feedback that others gave." That's a significant change. > saying they didn't disable the button is only arguably true. The button no longer performs its primary function I'm more sympathetic to this argument—that the primary purpose of the "dislike" button isn't to give the creator negative feedback, but as a "rating" system, with the only 2 possible ratings "+1" and "-1". The problem with that is that, "they changed the rating system" doesn't seem to merit all of the comparisons to 1984. And "more like 1984" vs. "less like 1984" seems a silly way to evaluate rating systems. Edit: actually, the rating system changed from "+1", "-1", "no vote", to "+1", "no vote"—since you can see the # of views, then you can determine roughly how many "no votes" there are.