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There's already extensions to bring back the dislikes. Last I heard they're removing them from the YouTube API in three months. And yes, I don't post things her
by Flankk 5y ago
There's already extensions to bring back the dislikes. Last I heard they're removing them from the YouTube API in three months. And yes, I don't post things here because I don't want to get hacked. Lots of big brains here.
- ushakov 5y agothe ratio will stay though with a like and ratio number you can reverse-calculate the amount of dislikes
- lnanek2 5y agoIsn't there a population shift, though? The users who will install an extension for this have different tastes than the users who won't, so you can't assume the like-dislike ratio for the population who will matches the population who won't.
- gus_massa 5y agoMoreover, it will be easier to brigade (or shill). If a video has 1M upvotes in YouTube and 1K upvotes in the site, then with 1K enthusiast you can tilt the count. (And for obscure videos with 100 or 1000 less upvotes in YT, it will be easier.)
- soledades 5y agoIf not many people use it, there will be much less incentive to shill
- soledades 5y agoBut maybe the signal is even better in the subpopulation
- cphoover 5y agoYou could create like a 3rd party like dislike service... That sends two requests one to YT and one to your 3p service that stores the count in a redis key value store with the id of the video and the count.
- datenarsch 5y agoUnless you get 95% of people to use such an extension, it will be mostly useless. And if somebody succeeded in getting 95% of people to use their extension, they would sell it to the highest bidder in a heartbeat, as has happened many times before. YouTube is dead, it's time to create something new.
- mucle6 5y agoToday I learned that any statistic created using <95% of the population is invalid
- cphoover 5y agoI kind of agree... we need a new YT
- 0des 5y agowhy only kind of, do you have apprehensions?
- cphoover 5y agoOr a subset of people that are like-minded, whose votes you value more than the general youtube population en mass.
- dewey 5y agoI think you are overestimating how many people care about the dislike count. Of course there's a bunch of people who are loud but I doubt most regular users care.