I had a very similar thought! Much of the discourse around the removal of visible dislikes revolves around lost utility. Finding another way to provide similar

I had a very similar thought! Much of the discourse around the removal of visible dislikes revolves around lost utility. Finding another way to provide similar utility value feels like a highly palatable solution to me. I'm not exactly a Google-tier product designer, so I have to imagine such a proposal has already been seriously considered... Perhaps they're waiting for the dust to settle before trying other approaches? In any case, the idea is not necessarily novel in the social media space. I recently learned that Twitter has a similar strategy for discerning content quality: the ratio[1]. It's not something that's explicitly exposed to users as a statistic, but it's basically just one step away. [1]: https://eclincher.com/your-tweet-got-ratioed-what-next/ https://eclincher.com/your-tweet-got-ratioed-what-next/