mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
There is plenty of room to express what you think with the use of the various icons available in the Like function
So why do you think we don't have a thumbs down button?
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Youtube stops showing the number of negative scores.
So why do you think we don't have a thumbs down button?
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Not being glib here, but I legitimately thought this happened like two months ago. Like the "trial phase," or whatever? Is there a glitch in the Matrix or something?
Bakkus
Member
Youtube is in perfect line with Facebook, Twitter, every single major company, most "news" channels/papers to silence dissent. I know we aren't allowed to discuss politics here anymore, so I'll leave it at that.
cireza
Member
It is unnecessary, no need to have one as you can express your dislike anyway.
Umbasaborne
Banned
Nintendo probably got sad that people didnt like their ripoff half assed pokemon remakes
ZoukGalaxy
Member
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I think your post and the other one by
Fake
are now displaying how adding buttons and a forum or social media app can be misleading. I would have never thought to use the "thoughtful" button in a sarcastic or ironic way. It defeats the purpose of the button.
strange headache
Banned
Never thought Zim would become a reality:
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
I think your post and the other one by
It's more an illustration of how people misinterpret things based upon their own self esteem/mirroring of how they react to things. If you didn't think it could be used sarcastically, that means you yourself have never used it in such a way. Same with a dislike button. Hiding it is pretty much confirmation bias that people don't actually dislike or disagree with your content, they're really bigoted misogynistic lolcow hate mongers who want you to kill yourself. If they weren't doing this to curb imaginary harassment, the fair thing would be to hide likes AND dislikes. I mean, they're available to content creators? Seeing how many people like your shit publicly is every bit as pointless as seeing how many dislike it, if we're going on that train of thought.
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
I think you aren't thinking about it from a "corporate" standpoint with advertisers. Ad companies and Marketing teams more than likely LOVE this move. It's probably more that, than changing it for content creators and normal users.
theclaw135
Banned
I was more referring to the disturbing users infesting even "mainstream" sites like those. Yeah I won't discuss it here.
What changed?
Twinguistics
Member
Good. I don't see the need for it to be visible. I can see potential benefits of this and zero drawbacks. Honestly, what downsides do you all see?
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
Quite possibly. Marketing is probably one of my blindspots, especially with streaming services, I tend to just go at it from the consumer standpoint.
(That was a genuine 'thoughtful'!)
Mozzarella
Member
Youtube is turning into shit lately, sometimes you engage in argument with people and after you write a long wall of text explaining everything properly thinking you owned that guy, then there's no response, i mean what happened right? you log out of your account and go to the comments only to notice that your comment didnt actually appear, i mean what the fuck? the problem is they censor certain words, but those words have expanded recently, nowadays regular words may get censored and get your comment deleted, anything can be offensive these days, so the platform itself is garbage for arguing or anything, its just becoming a platform for makeup and outfit videos, cat and dogs videos, and some music. Shame, old youtube was awesome. We need good alternative.
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Fake
Gold Member
To be honest, this is pretty much for advertisers and probably they are the person who requested.
SlimeGooGoo
Banned
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Check the comments
zaanan
Banned
That’s not the point. The point is to prevent anyone from voicing an “incorrect” opinion to others.
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Are they stopping people from commenting on videos?
Zannegan
Member
No, those they'll just curate. One step at a time though.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
ArtemisClydeFrog
Banned
Why the fuck you commenting on youtube videos
Bernkastel
Ask me about my fanboy energy!
93xfan
Banned
Entirely political. It’s meant so people don’t see how unpopular the radical beliefs are
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Craig of War
Banned
Bullshit i hate what this world has become.
that’s never gonna happen lol. The amount of manpower required to curate every comment posted on YouTube is unfathomable.
literally never gonna happen.
No one is being censored. They can still leave negative comments as much as they want.
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junguler
Banned
people who only voted on videos and never commented are being censored.
No they’re not because they can still comment. Censorship is the prevention of making a point or voicing your opinion. Literally no one is censored by this.
person: I’m being censored!
YouTube: leave a comment instead if you care that much about getting your opinion across to other prople
Person: no
that’s not censorship hahahaha
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Singular7
Member
The Biden videos were getting 1:1000000 negativity.
Netflix did the same thing YEARS ago, by removing downvotes, since all of the Amy Schumer ultra-lib stuff was downvoted to oblivion.
Interesting times, the corporations control thoughts. "they" know that people collectively basically understand lies, so they have to prevent the collective from seeing it, and impose this "peer shaming" system to cover it up.
Netflix did the same thing YEARS ago, by removing downvotes, since all of the Amy Schumer ultra-lib stuff was downvoted to oblivion.
Interesting times, the corporations control thoughts. "they" know that people collectively basically understand lies, so they have to prevent the collective from seeing it, and impose this "peer shaming" system to cover it up.
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Tschumi
Member
Remembering this place during less peaceful times, i can understand if struggling YouTubers (you know, not the ones we watch) would complain if random trolls came by to mess with them.
Ehhh but i don't agree with this. I think it's valid to downvote a video, maybe they could just tweak their algorithm to identify when dislike numbers are out of wack with minutes viewed, or something like that
Ehhh but i don't agree with this. I think it's valid to downvote a video, maybe they could just tweak their algorithm to identify when dislike numbers are out of wack with minutes viewed, or something like that
Excess
Member
I'm more concerned with "The Network Effect", where one company controls a particular market of social media, and the barrier of entry is fucking nil for any competition.
We've never been faced with this before. Not even the courts want to touch it, nor can they even provide a remedy. And good luck getting legislation passed. The Technocratic Corporate future is here. These are now the nations of the world. These are our new temples of worship.
*Cue loud WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH sound effect*
We've never been faced with this before. Not even the courts want to touch it, nor can they even provide a remedy. And good luck getting legislation passed. The Technocratic Corporate future is here. These are now the nations of the world. These are our new temples of worship.
*Cue loud WAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH sound effect*
O-N-E
Member
Seriously though, one of the big reasons this makes youtube much less usable is that a lot of people look for tutorials on that platform and rely on the like/dislike ratio to tell them if the tutorial could actually be useful to them.
Now this'll lead to a bunch of time being wasted on watching through shit tuts. Destroys a large part of the user experience.
Now this'll lead to a bunch of time being wasted on watching through shit tuts. Destroys a large part of the user experience.
DetectiveBananas
Member
So if the content creator disables comments and has no dislike 
button then that 20 million views in the first week could mean it’s one of the greatest or worst videos of all time 
We’ll never know...
button then that 20 million views in the first week could mean it’s one of the greatest or worst videos of all time We’ll never know...
Nocturno999
Member
Youtube needs strong competition. It's urgent.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
Lame, but i dont see this as any different from what we do here. you only see likes.
DeadOblivion78
Banned
That's exactly what I was thinking. Now I have look at the comments to see if a video is helpful and we all know how helpful youtube comments are.
I would also argue that the people getting mad and crying “censorship!” Over this are the most delicate of snowflakes.
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