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Don't you have empathy for poor creators like the executive branch of the US federal government though? The dislike button was making things rough for them.

by usrn 4y ago

toxik 4y ago
I swear, the YouTube staff was just salty about the ratios on their cringe-fest Rewind videos.
- Gigachad 4y ago
  It was probably turning corporations off the platform entirely since turning the likes off looked bad and leaving them on created risk.
  - gruez 4y ago
    But you could already disable likes/dislikes if you want
    - toxik 4y ago
      Turning them off, like turning comments off, makes you look like you’re afraid of what people will say about your video. … Which is exactly the case, but they don't want it to look like that.
pjc50 4y ago
What?
- subjectsigma 4y ago
  Videos of Biden (speeches, etc) were regularly seeing abysmal like/dislike ratios, esp on official news channels like CNN. Then suddenly YouTube removed dislikes because of "dislike bombs". There was some speculation they were specifically pressured by someone (Biden or the media) to remove dislikes so their ratings would stop being negatively affected. This is really silly because the theory assumes that A) Biden cares or even knows about people disliking YouTube videos of him and B) that CNN doesn't already receive preferential treatment from YouTube and couldn't just ask for an algorithmic boost regardless of how many likes/dislikes they have Most likely it was because YouTube's own content (such as Rewind) was getting dislike bombed.
  - Aunche 4y ago
    >Most likely it was because YouTube's own content (such as Rewind) was getting dislike bombed. If Biden or CNN don't care about dislikes, why would YouTube? The most obvious explanation is that some data scientists noticed that removing dislikes tends to increase ad revenue or watch time.
    - subjectsigma 4y ago
      YouTube got a massive amount of bad press about it, whereas I don't think the average person knew Biden was getting dislike bombed. But you're probably right.

Don't you have empathy for poor creators like the executive branch of the US federal government though? The dislike button was making things rough for them.

by usrn 4y ago

Don't you have empathy for poor creators like the executive branch of the US federal government though? The dislike button was making things rough for them.

toxik 4y ago

I swear, the YouTube staff was just salty about the ratios on their cringe-fest Rewind videos.

Gigachad 4y ago
It was probably turning corporations off the platform entirely since turning the likes off looked bad and leaving them on created risk.
- gruez 4y ago
  But you could already disable likes/dislikes if you want
  - toxik 4y ago
    Turning them off, like turning comments off, makes you look like you’re afraid of what people will say about your video. … Which is exactly the case, but they don't want it to look like that.

pjc50 4y ago

What?

subjectsigma 4y ago
Videos of Biden (speeches, etc) were regularly seeing abysmal like/dislike ratios, esp on official news channels like CNN. Then suddenly YouTube removed dislikes because of "dislike bombs". There was some speculation they were specifically pressured by someone (Biden or the media) to remove dislikes so their ratings would stop being negatively affected. This is really silly because the theory assumes that A) Biden cares or even knows about people disliking YouTube videos of him and B) that CNN doesn't already receive preferential treatment from YouTube and couldn't just ask for an algorithmic boost regardless of how many likes/dislikes they have Most likely it was because YouTube's own content (such as Rewind) was getting dislike bombed.
- Aunche 4y ago
  >Most likely it was because YouTube's own content (such as Rewind) was getting dislike bombed. If Biden or CNN don't care about dislikes, why would YouTube? The most obvious explanation is that some data scientists noticed that removing dislikes tends to increase ad revenue or watch time.
  - subjectsigma 4y ago
    YouTube got a massive amount of bad press about it, whereas I don't think the average person knew Biden was getting dislike bombed. But you're probably right.