Posted on 02/04/2019 5:16:38 PM PST by EdnaMode
YouTube is all too aware of the potential for abuse of the dislike button, and it could soon take steps to make people think carefully about hitting that thumbs-down icon. Project management director Tom Leung posted an update this week revealing that YouTube is discussing experiments that could prevent "dislike mobs" from running rampant. It could turn off rating counts by default, require an explanation for a dislike, remove just the dislike count or even remove dislikes altogether.
Leung was quick to acknowledge that many of these approaches have drawbacks. Asking for an explanation would create all kinds of logistical headaches on top of slowing people down, and removing dislikes would be considered extreme and not very "democratic." The director added that YouTube might pass on these reforms if they're no better than the status quo. He presented the discussions at the early stage precisely to encourage feedback from creators who might have more effective solutions.
YouTube has a vested interest in tackling the problem when its 2018 Rewind set a record for the most dislikes, but it's a growing issue for creators as a whole. A surge of dislikes won't necessarily kill a video's chances, but it could reduce the number of recommendations and limit the video's potential viewership. If YouTube doesn't address this, it could discourage creators worried that a video on a hot button issue could be suppressed by determined agitators.
Oooh, I'm sure those super-clever silicon valley you-tubers find a way to do it that won't be figured out within five minutes by the blogosphere.
This is because the Gillette video has SOOOOO many dislikes.
This timing is not coincidental.
750,000 up votes yet there are hardly any positive comments at all.
Only what seem to be SJW trolls.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0&feature=youtu.be
Yup that has to be a major reason.
If you say something critical of Islam of your YouTube channel —ANYTHING— they organize, pile on and hit, hit, hit that ABUSE button:
Three of those and you’re gone, quite simply.
You let one peep out about Euro kids getting beat up at school by Somalis and Khurds and you’re finished.
And I’m GLAD they did it to me; I can face myself.
I think dislike buttons that either don’t accumulate or are absent entirely is a chicken shit snow-flake safe zone.
Youtube doesn’t want any competition in censoring wrong thoughts.
This is happening on the Daily Mail.
Every time you hit the dislike button, you get 50,000 volts to the butt. No, seriously, I didn't even know this was a thing. That's how out of tune I am.
Gillette says, “thanks comrades, here’s some ration coupons”.
The left-wing liberal mob once again got to youtube.
Is this how Reddit works? Never understood it... Someone posts something fairly innocuous but still halfway interesting and, BANG!, a thousand down votes.
More censorship. You’d think they were Nazis or something.
explanation:
I dislike therefore I am.
“The left-wing liberal mob once again got to youtube.”
They didn’t GET to YouTube-they RUN YouTube
Same with the latest Joe Rogan vid interviewing Jack Dorsey of Twitter....who’s big on censoring.
The best way to prevent "abuse" of "dislike" is to replace the entire management team at Google and YouTube, along with at least half of the employees of both companies. Thanks EdnaMode.
This is all abnout (1) Pew die Pie and (2) gillette
Full-of-$hit YT manipulating again. The thumbs up / down buttons work. All kinds of conservative and gun content gets like 99% thumbs up. No organized lefties hitting those (except for “reporting” innocent stuff to get the entire channel banned).
The thumbs down works great. Most videos are mostly liked. But look at this one. This could be the main reason YT is changing things. They must not have liked what happened here!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0
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