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Can we go back to the chapter on YouTube where we had downvotes so we can tell whether or not a video is going to be high quality and informative or not?

PartiallyTyped 4y ago
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movedx 4y ago
I don't understand YouTube's move to remove the downvote button - cyber bullying? What I will say though is it actually hasn't stopped me from being able to identify a bad video. If a "bad" video had 1,000 upvotes and (previously) had 10,000 downvotes, combined with a high view count and engage via the comments, just removing the downvotes still tells me everything I need to know: 1,000 upvotes on a high view count video with high engagement? Probably a bad video. But again, I don't know why they removed it? /shrug
- moffkalast 4y ago
  We all know why they removed it, they were butthurt over their cringe rewinds consistently getting downvoted into oblivion. /s
  - cwkoss 4y ago
    I think it was less Youtube's ego and more the ego's of its advertiser and IP-hoarding-company patrons
- Gigachad 4y ago
  Because corporate videos like movie trailers kept getting destroyed and it became a news event when there was a massive downvote count. They had a setting to disable votes per video but that just means the company admits the video is unpopular.
  - wiseowise 4y ago
    Poor multibillion companies getting bullied, who can defend them?!
  - optimalsolver 4y ago
    >movie trailers kept getting destroyed and it became a news event when there was a massive downvote count Ah, so they did it to counter vote-brigading? Makes sense now.
- antifa 4y ago
  I think it was more useful for evaluating videos with low view counts. Maybe the video was good/useful, just not by an established high subscriber YouTuber. Or it's garbage spam but I can't see the 200 downs next to the 20 ups.
kumarvvr 4y ago
This is corporate greed at work. A tiny minority of users know the importance and value of a symmetrical voting system. Most users dont care. So Google removes it because its good for business, not for the user. Massively downvoted videos are bad press.

PartiallyTyped 4y ago

FWIW there's an addon [1] that can help with this. [1] https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com https://www.returnyoutubedislike.com

movedx 4y ago

I don't understand YouTube's move to remove the downvote button - cyber bullying? What I will say though is it actually hasn't stopped me from being able to identify a bad video. If a "bad" video had 1,000 upvotes and (previously) had 10,000 downvotes, combined with a high view count and engage via the comments, just removing the downvotes still tells me everything I need to know: 1,000 upvotes on a high view count video with high engagement? Probably a bad video. But again, I don't know why they removed it? /shrug

moffkalast 4y ago
We all know why they removed it, they were butthurt over their cringe rewinds consistently getting downvoted into oblivion. /s
- cwkoss 4y ago
  I think it was less Youtube's ego and more the ego's of its advertiser and IP-hoarding-company patrons
Gigachad 4y ago
Because corporate videos like movie trailers kept getting destroyed and it became a news event when there was a massive downvote count. They had a setting to disable votes per video but that just means the company admits the video is unpopular.
- wiseowise 4y ago
  Poor multibillion companies getting bullied, who can defend them?!
- optimalsolver 4y ago
  >movie trailers kept getting destroyed and it became a news event when there was a massive downvote count Ah, so they did it to counter vote-brigading? Makes sense now.
antifa 4y ago
I think it was more useful for evaluating videos with low view counts. Maybe the video was good/useful, just not by an established high subscriber YouTuber. Or it's garbage spam but I can't see the 200 downs next to the 20 ups.

kumarvvr 4y ago

This is corporate greed at work. A tiny minority of users know the importance and value of a symmetrical voting system. Most users dont care. So Google removes it because its good for business, not for the user. Massively downvoted videos are bad press.