Hiding dislikes is stupid. they don't even show them to you on the creator page so I'm required to do math to derive the number of dislikes from the # of likes

Hiding dislikes is stupid. they don't even show them to you on the creator page so I'm required to do math to derive the number of dislikes from the # of likes and the '% favorability' metric. Certainly, such tools can be abused as documented in the article. The solution to this is to deweight signals from people who do it systematically.