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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 ide
by 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 agoWe all know why they removed it, they were butthurt over their cringe rewinds consistently getting downvoted into oblivion. /s
- cwkoss 4y agoI think it was less Youtube's ego and more the ego's of its advertiser and IP-hoarding-company patrons
- Gigachad 4y agoBecause 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 agoPoor 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 agoI 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.