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> We are excellent at finding niche corners and performing AB testing and this and that and then making a business case to increase whatever metric whatever muc
by mohanmcgeek 5y ago
> We are excellent at finding niche corners and performing AB testing and this and that and then making a business case to increase whatever metric whatever much.
I've always had my reservations against this approach but at this point I am wondering if data driven product design produces positive results at all.
Clearly YouTube PMs did run experiments before deciding to kill the dislike button but didn't pause to think what the real purpose of that button was supposed to be..
- ilayn 5y agoTrue but you might surprised what that dislike button is actually correlated to.I don't know but I can guess. Often "content creator experience" is way less important than preventing some companies having their campaigns downvoted to death. So there might be a strong commercial incentive which also youtubers don't pause and think who is benefiting from this.
- mohanmcgeek 5y agoThey already had the option to let the creator hide dislike counts. YouTube is less useful now that I don't know what's clickbaity scam. All these PMs and not one of them thought.. "hmm.. would we remove product ratings if we were Amazon"