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Removing downvotes? Randomly rewarding the latest 'feature' so you get a load of shorts of videos you've already seen, random votes for things, etc.

• danpalmer 3y ago
  I've never used the voting. It's a quality signal and they are notoriously difficult to get right. Netflix infamously switched from stars to like/dislike and everyone hated it, and yet it provides better signal and recommendations become better and therefore you get better content surfaced that you'll enjoy more. I'd guess a similar thing happened with YouTube. Zooming out there's typically an ecosystem benefit, because otherwise why would they do it. That ecosystem benefit isn't always about money, if no one watched videos there would be no business. In fact a business that is often much better than a business with no users that isn't, so user happiness and experience tends to be prioritised highly in products/companies like this.
  • benj111 3y ago
    A video with 1000 upvotes and 1 downvotes tells me something A video with 1000 upvotes and 2000 downvotes tells me something. A video with 1000 upvotes doesn't tell me anything. I can still downvote, I just don't get told the downvote total. If they decided the system was broken and decided to replace it, I could understand. But they haven't changed the system, they've just removed the utility it did have.
  • preciousoo 3y ago
    You’re right about the YouTube too, they also started with rating videos x/5 stars