r/technology • u/Dilpickle2113 • 10h ago

Social Media YouTube is testing hiding the dislike button entirely and users aren’t happy

https://www.dexerto.com/youtube/youtube-is-testing-hiding-the-dislike-button-entirely-and-users-arent-happy-3420822/
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u/teaguechrystie 10h ago

remember when netflix had a five star user review system?

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u/Inside-Specialist-55 10h ago

The reason they got rid of this is because they know that low rated movies and TV shows will never get any views or watches. Now you just got to have your phone out the entire time browsing IMDB to see if a movie/show is good or not.

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u/fizzlefist 10h ago

No, it’s because you could tell how controversial a video was. Slopaganda videos with 10,000 likes? You don’t see that there’s 100,000 dislikes.

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u/Winderkorffin 9h ago

The thing is, it doesn't matter. They only care if you've watched it. They don't care if it was hate watching or whatever

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u/fizzlefist 9h ago

Advertisers care. That’s who they cater too.

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u/gabu87 8h ago

Who said anything about hate watching? I frequently click right out the moment i see a high dislike ratio (and highly rated top comment criticizing it), especially for tutorial stuff.

Until recently, Youtube doesn't count instant leave viewcounts

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u/teaguechrystie 9h ago

i think you're both sayin the same thing and both right.

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u/fizzlefist 9h ago

Person above me seeems to be talking about the end user experience. I didn’t make it clear, but the implication is that Advertisers very much care about if the public sees the dislikes.

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u/teaguechrystie 9h ago

yeah, and i do see the distinction, but i'd categorize both under "the open review system results in some content being (fairly) prejudiced against and we're not in the business of helping people find stuff they want to watch, we're in the business of making content get watched."

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u/rebbsitor 9h ago

Bad news: IMDB was bought by Amazon.

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u/FartingBob 6h ago

It was brought by Amazon in 1998. I doubt many people remember what it was like as an independent company.

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u/shinbreaker 9h ago

Actually, it was because of Amy Schumer's comedy special that was trashed for good reason. And like you mentioned, Netflix was protecting its investment since they paid her millions for that garbage.

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u/AClover69420 8h ago

Imagine thinking this is why....

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u/HDThoreauaway 8h ago

The reason they got rid of it was that people didn’t realize the five-star ratings were dynamic and based on their own ratings.

So people who generally rated things lower saw other shows given low ratings because it was predicting the rating that user would give it.

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u/fatpat 7h ago

I started using Peacock a few months ago, and was pleasantly surprised to see that they had RT scores for their movies and tv shows.

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u/seriouslees 7h ago

Who is watching movies on youtube?