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).
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.
They want more money. Helping the user is only good if it makes money. Anyway, down votes give viewers more information, and probably YT wants to doctor the data in a way that downvotes block.
For example, I would always downvote AI content if allowed. So would countless others. But YT wants people to watch it, right? So they gotta suppress our negative feedback.
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?
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
It’s the children who are wrong.
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.
Honestly I’d rather have that now, a sizable minority of users hate AI videos.
They want more money. Helping the user is only good if it makes money. Anyway, down votes give viewers more information, and probably YT wants to doctor the data in a way that downvotes block.
For example, I would always downvote AI content if allowed. So would countless others. But YT wants people to watch it, right? So they gotta suppress our negative feedback.