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I agree and do take time to ask others about this stuff. Right now, I enjoy having a broad mix of people, young, old, men, women... to talk to. One thing I lo
by ddingus 5y ago
I agree and do take time to ask others about this stuff.
Right now, I enjoy having a broad mix of people, young, old, men, women... to talk to. One thing I love is when they bring me stuff to discuss.
The trick is to express an interest and make those conversations fun, real gives and takes.
The numbers on people seeking news outside the established media are pretty high.
YT and the White House did that public beta and that was noticed! Brought to me by others who probably would not otherwise.
"Why hide dislikes for POTUS?"
Why indeed!
The people saying few care about the details like the HN crowd usually does are not wrong.
But there is more to this than that.
Discussing whether dislikes is useful to understand potential video quality is a mixed bag like proponents of that idea say. And in some instances, say for how to videos, it is a great metric, like those proponents say too.
A higher order look at this is more like what normies are into.
They ask how come this became an issue after POTUS, CNN and Fauci got ratioed non stop?
They ask, "who decides what is misinformation? Is it the same people getting RussiaGate wrong for years, and who always seem excited about endless wars?"
I can make a case for how hanging out here alters perceptions in like kind.
Maybe more people talking outside their comfort zone, with a more diverse set of people and contexts is a good thing. Having done it for a while, I sure think so.
People do not care too much about the details. They care a lot about being managed, essentially told they need to be guided in this way.
- emodendroket 5y agoIt sounds a lot like the people you're talking to are Republican partisans who view most events through that lens.
- ddingus 5y agoNot at all. I have a solid mix, and have cultivated that over a considerable time too. Started a decade ago. Indies, Dems, GOP, you name it. I enjoy politics and culture. No judgement, just frank talk. More people than you know find that to be high value and it is not easy. Those questions are not partisan. They do speak to class though.
- ddingus 5y agoI have many of those same questions. Dem for decades. Just saying...
- emodendroket 5y agoYouTube was an outlier in keeping the thumbs-down for as long as it did, as pretty much every other platform has long since gone to a more "positive" direction.
- ddingus 5y agoThose moves do not make sense either.
- emodendroket 5y agoThey happened before Donald Trump was even President.
- ddingus 5y agoAnd? They still do not make sense, and I do not care who was POTUS.
- emodendroket 5y agoYou were just insinuating it was a plot to hide dislikes on videos of Biden and Fauci.
- ddingus 5y agoAdd big media to that list. CNN and friends are not happy about the fact that indies can clean their clocks. Personally, I do not feel POTUS needs dislikes hidden, no matter who the POTUS is. Biden, at this time, has a pretty low approval rating and has not made good on many promises people value highly. And I only mention that to highlight the large number of dislikes make sense! Same goes for CNN and friends, who regularly get major things wrong, and who are being held up as authoritative. Generally speaking, these disconnects are not partisan at all. People in general are going to oppose this kind of information management, and it's implied they are too stupid to do it for themselves and need the help. Viewed through this lens the broad and sustained opposition to this move is no surprise at all.
- raxxorrax 5y agoNot from the US, but how would that change anything? Because just like that you sound more judgmental than this abstract group and that you have a problem with downvotes.