yay now you have to watch the whole video to tell if it’s a scam/troll/shitty tutorial, at least capeshit movie trailers won’t be downvoted anymore
I think getting rid of dislikes might be good in comment sections where users interact with each other directly. Youtube has basically already done that, though. The comments have a dislike button, but it’s well known at this point that it doesn’t actually do anything and is just there for placebo purposes.
But getting rid of the dislike count on videos is I think a very bad move. In general, it doesn’t tell you much about most videos, especially political videos. But for quickly identifying scams and clickbait? I believe that’s basically its main purpose and that is invaluable. If an informational video on a non-political subject has many more dislikes than likes, you can be sure it’s bullshit without even watching it.
you know what sucks the most, in my opinion? it’s not that we won’t get to see if it’s a shitty video straight away, or if the chuds are brigading it or anything like that… it’s just the fact that this is 100% going to somehow change online discourse, and who the fuck knows how
it’s like they’re just pulling levers in this giant radicalization machine, and all we can do is hope that this doesn’t have the same shitty consequences as their long tail thought bubble algorithm bullshit
honestly, I’m just tossing random algorithm marketing buzzwords around to make a point of how this is all techbro mumbo jumbo, but despite my dislike for the NYT, there’s some interesting stuff about right wing radicalization in their rabbit hole podcast, you might want to check it out: https://www.nytimes.com/column/rabbit-hole
The filter-bubble is a term used for the way the content you consume online is used to tailor the content directed at you, especially by large entities like Google and Facebook and Amazon. It magnifies biases in feedback loops, creates sortitions of people online, and even leads to the point where two people can find completely conflicting things from the same search query, based on how the algorithm analyzes you.
The Filter Bubble by Eli Pariser is a very good read. It lays out many social dynamics of the Web today, including advertising and social media and third-party tracking.
I kind of like it, 90% of all dislikes are chuds being upset that a dark skinned person exists
Just realized this is going to become the reason they eventually remove comments. On every bad video, the top comment will become: “Like this comment to dislike the video”
I suppose it’s easy enough to just disable comments on movie trailers and other stuff they don’t want people to mass dislike. But they already had the option to disable the like system on individual videos.
Would they do that though? We know these companies prize engagement above all else, and I can’t be the only one who probably spends as much time reading YT comments as I do actually watching videos.
Then again, I suppose YT comments aren’t tied to advertising so maybe they don’t give a shit about how much people engage with them…
