udc comments on Youtube Disliked the Dislikes

[–] udc@lemmy.world 13 points 4 months ago (7 children)

Does anyone know is there a reason why they got rid of dislike? I'd have thought they'd want it to help improve recommendations?

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[–] Tetsuo@jlai.lu 7 points 4 months ago (2 children)

If I recall correctly, they said it was to preview "review bombing" of small channel. They said that a few weeks after YouTube's own channel published one of the most disliked video ever (YouTube rewind).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most-disliked_YouTube_videos

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

It's the children who are wrong.

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[–] logan_hero@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 point 4 months ago

December 13th 2021(og dislike removal day) happened like 3 years after rewind 2018 dislike bombing

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[–] The_Decryptor@aussie.zone 4 points 4 months ago (1 child)

It was routinely being gamed, made it kinda useless for semi popular stuff when you couldn't tell if something was actually garbage, or just had upset the wrong people.

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[–] explodicle@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 months ago

Honestly I'd rather have that now, a sizable minority of users hate AI videos.

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[–] BigDiction@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago

The main reason cited was that downvotes discouraged creators from naming and uploading content. There’s probably some truth to it. If I got served with a 10 minute tutorial video and a 60% vote ratio I’m probably not watching that very far.