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I was skeptical about removing dislikes at first. But the more I think about it, the more I admire the decision. It's slightly inconveniencing the majority in
by analyst74 5y ago
I was skeptical about removing dislikes at first. But the more I think about it, the more I admire the decision.
It's slightly inconveniencing the majority in order to protect the minority from harassment. If anything, it shows YouTube has the balls to do what's unpopular.
- sudosysgen 5y agoThat's certainly true. However, I really miss dislikes for tutorial. If I'm repairing a sensitive piece of equipment, dislikes are useful to cut out the noise from the signal.
- Octabrain 5y agoI honestly think that the reason Youtube gave for removing dislikes based on their will to protect “the minority” from harassment is plain BS. I personally don’t see anything brave on it. IMO There are much clever and better mechanisms YouTube could have implemented to prevent that claimed “harassment protection”: What about requiring the user to watch certain proportion of the video in order to allow to like/dislike it? What about doing a better job detecting and purging bot accounts? What about improving the feedback loop from the user when he/she dislikes the video? What about improving the shitshow that is the copyright violation claim system which is something that truly kills many minor channels? If anything, it is the most lazy measure they could came up with, but even with that, I simply don’t buy it and I suspect the reasons behind are others.