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>How about you think stuff through before even starting to waste time on stuff like this? What makes you think they don't think it through? This effect is an e

>How about you think stuff through before even starting to waste time on stuff like this? What makes you think they don't think it through? This effect is an experiment that they are running. It seems to be useless, unwanted from our perspective, but what if they find that it increases engagement?

estimator7292 1y ago
Someone at google needs this promotion to feel like a real man
- cmrdporcupine 1y ago
  I think it's more the case that in today's Google, you need that promotion to stay employed.
  - uz3snolc3t6fnrq 1y ago
    seems to be the reason they go through UI changes every year or so. like agh, there goes my muscle memory again. at least ol' reliable hn is still the same good old plain renderable-by-anything-more-advanced-than-a-toaster html
machomaster 1y ago
> What makes you think they don't think it through? Basing it on a lot of stupid decisions youtube has made over the years, the last being the horrendous autotranslation of titles/descriptions/audio that can't be turned off. Can only be explained by having morons making decisions, who can't imagine that anyone could speak more than one language.
- npteljes 1y ago
  I think those were thought through, even maybe the specific concerns that your bring up - and then a conscious decision was made to not give a fuck about those concerns. I don't think it's stupidity, or shortsightedness, or ignorance, or anything like that. They just have different priorities. And they are not having enough negative feedback to reconsider these decisions.
  - machomaster 1y ago
    If it quacks like a duck... There is no practical difference between an idiot on the internet and a smart troll role-playing an idiot 100% of the time. Since youtube has been making a lot of objectively stupid decisions, it does not matter if they are actually stupid or this is some kind of meta commentary on the power elites running their way and ordinary folks not able to do anything about it. It's all the same in practice.

estimator7292 1y ago

Someone at google needs this promotion to feel like a real man

cmrdporcupine 1y ago
I think it's more the case that in today's Google, you need that promotion to stay employed.
- uz3snolc3t6fnrq 1y ago
  seems to be the reason they go through UI changes every year or so. like agh, there goes my muscle memory again. at least ol' reliable hn is still the same good old plain renderable-by-anything-more-advanced-than-a-toaster html

machomaster 1y ago

> What makes you think they don't think it through? Basing it on a lot of stupid decisions youtube has made over the years, the last being the horrendous autotranslation of titles/descriptions/audio that can't be turned off. Can only be explained by having morons making decisions, who can't imagine that anyone could speak more than one language.

npteljes 1y ago
I think those were thought through, even maybe the specific concerns that your bring up - and then a conscious decision was made to not give a fuck about those concerns. I don't think it's stupidity, or shortsightedness, or ignorance, or anything like that. They just have different priorities. And they are not having enough negative feedback to reconsider these decisions.
- machomaster 1y ago
  If it quacks like a duck... There is no practical difference between an idiot on the internet and a smart troll role-playing an idiot 100% of the time. Since youtube has been making a lot of objectively stupid decisions, it does not matter if they are actually stupid or this is some kind of meta commentary on the power elites running their way and ordinary folks not able to do anything about it. It's all the same in practice.