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With all of the backlash over this decision, Google still decides to move forward with it. I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content cr

by xyst 5y ago

With all of the backlash over this decision, Google still decides to move forward with it. I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators, but they are doing so at the expense of the user experience. I used to use the likes:dislikes ratio to determine if a video is worth watching. Now I either have to quickly scroll the comments or skip around the video to determine if the info is valid.

Epitom3 5y ago
> I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators sure they are lmfao
- prohobo 5y ago
  Yeah... It's incredible how blind people are in this day and age. Google is clearly trying to control narratives, not "end the sadness".
an_ko 5y ago
I think the reason they removed dislike counts may be exactly because people (like you) tended to click away immediately on seeing a high ratio of dislikes. It's game theory. If people do that, it means their recommendation algorithm's watch time and retention metrics get bad data; users aren't actually assessing how good the video is, but assessing previous viewers' assessment of it, so you get signal feedback. If someone can get a good snowball effect going by brigading a bunch of dislikes on a video, they can reduce its reach even if the algorithm is showing it to people just as much. And it can snowball the other way too; people watching a long video a bit more hoping it will get good eventually because it has such a high ratio of likes. Just speculating of course.
- elldoubleyew 5y ago
  I think it’s much more likely that the videos they promote to protect their political interests get large amounts of downvotes, and removing ratings looks like bending the knee.
drannex 5y ago
> I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators more like advertisers, brands, and corporations
rasz 5y ago
>I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators by displaying dislike counter exclusively for those content creators, riiiight

by xyst 5y ago

Epitom3 5y ago

> I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators sure they are lmfao

prohobo 5y ago
Yeah... It's incredible how blind people are in this day and age. Google is clearly trying to control narratives, not "end the sadness".

an_ko 5y ago

I think the reason they removed dislike counts may be exactly because people (like you) tended to click away immediately on seeing a high ratio of dislikes. It's game theory. If people do that, it means their recommendation algorithm's watch time and retention metrics get bad data; users aren't actually assessing how good the video is, but assessing previous viewers' assessment of it, so you get signal feedback. If someone can get a good snowball effect going by brigading a bunch of dislikes on a video, they can reduce its reach even if the algorithm is showing it to people just as much. And it can snowball the other way too; people watching a long video a bit more hoping it will get good eventually because it has such a high ratio of likes. Just speculating of course.

elldoubleyew 5y ago
I think it’s much more likely that the videos they promote to protect their political interests get large amounts of downvotes, and removing ratings looks like bending the knee.

drannex 5y ago

> I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators more like advertisers, brands, and corporations

rasz 5y ago

>I understand they are trying to protect the sanity of the content creators by displaying dislike counter exclusively for those content creators, riiiight