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YouTube is plagued by low quality content with clickbait titles, descriptions, and images. Often they outright lie about the content. Any DIY is a crapshoot. Ev
by Gareth321 3y ago
YouTube is plagued by low quality content with clickbait titles, descriptions, and images. Often they outright lie about the content. Any DIY is a crapshoot. Even if it's not a lie, often it doesn't work or it's actually dangerous. Videos with lots of downvotes is a quick and easy indicator not to bother watching the 10 minute video to discover if it's good quality. YouTube's intention here is clear: if one can't determine in advance when a video is poor quality, they'll be forced to watch those poor quality videos until they find a good one. This increases time on the platform and their advertising revenue.
- manicennui 3y agoMany great videos have a lot of dislikes. I don't understand this argument. It's a useless metric. I don't care who wins the popularity contest.
- mike741 3y agoMany =/= Most. The dislike ratio was extremely reliable when it came to identifying clickbait. Maybe you don't care about that but many others do.
- sacnoradhq 3y agoThere is a conflation of the like and dislike button of multiple attributes: 1. agreement 2. respect 3. fascinating 4. production quality These 4 attributes should be graded individually rather than together.