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Effectively disabling dislikes is what has led to this mess in the first place. If your algorithm takes takes the like and dislike ratio into account for what
by cardanome 2y ago
Effectively disabling dislikes is what has led to this mess in the first place.
If your algorithm takes takes the like and dislike ratio into account for what videos are shown then people are encouraged to create content that is not offensive to the majority of people. There is a natural self-policing and extreme takes get less visibility.
If you optimize for engagement, well we all know that spreading hate and general negativity generates the most engagement. So content creators will focus on that kind of content. There is no way for the moderate majority of the user base to keep them in check.
- djaychela 2y agoDislikes are not disabled, just the count is not visible. You can still see the ratio in your creator studio. The algorithm is optimising for view time, I think that's far more of a variable than Dislikes, and people will dislike content but still watch a significant portion of it.
- cardanome 2y agoYeah, that is what I meant when I said it is optimizing for engagement i.e. view time. Early youtube algo did take dilikes into accound and tried to optimize for quality. Dislikes are effectively disabled. A high dislike count isn't something content creators need to worry about, hence the more extrem content.
- hhh 2y agoIt is something they need to worry about. It’s just less effective for brigading videos. Except now those people over-focus on the chrome extension that records the like:dislike ratio of videos (of extension users only) and they end up filtering themselves by thinking it’s authoritative for the overall view population.