the algorithm already dooesnt care about likes and dislikes, it seems them as the same thing, an "interaction."
Its counted the same as someone commenting as well, it counts as "an interaction" which is measured against the amount of views it has to get a ratio of "how interactive the video is" which is part of what decides if a video gets pushed out to more reccomended tabs, along with metrics like "how often do people that are recommended the video actually click on it" and "how much time do people spend watching this video as well as what percentage of the video do people watch before clicking off."
The important take away from this being that dislikes dont matter as a dislike, theres no difference between liking and disliking a video already.
But it is still feedback for the creator, however vague. Seeing a like/dislike ratio of like 15:1 can make someone think about the content they make.
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That would be a valid point if yôtube gave a flying fuck about the content creators, all they care for is the ads they sell. Every click is a dime and every interaction is a bonus.
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Goes to show, again: people with "snowflakes" in either active vocabulary are the easiest offended. By literally fucking EVERYthing they eagerly try to relate to themselves. In this case some entity taking away their right to giving their opinion by clicking on a fucking button, to "tell them snowflakes" in a concerted action with the other snowflake hunters, but are too lazy to actually articulate an opinion.
thnking about it, this is could be the actual reason they are doing it.
follow me down a thought here.
They see websites like twitter that don't have a dislike button, just like, share(rertweet in this case), and comment. They also see that in these cases people that would normally hit the dislike button are FORCED to heavily interact with the material by posting a reply if they want to express their negative opinion of it, furthering total interaction by giving more comments to interact with AND putting more people in the comment section of a post to see those more comments to then interact with, giving more total time for people to be exposed to more ads in the sidebars that have long enough to "cycle" to the next ad, giving them more money and potentially generating more interactions total, as in multiple reply comments to other comments and also posting their own comment, that would have just been a single interaction, disliking the video and clicking away.
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Totally makes sense. Youtube is very annoying and persistant in their attempts to generate a profit.
Its counted the same as someone commenting as well, it counts as "an interaction" which is measured against the amount of views it has to get a ratio of "how interactive the video is" which is part of what decides if a video gets pushed out to more reccomended tabs, along with metrics like "how often do people that are recommended the video actually click on it" and "how much time do people spend watching this video as well as what percentage of the video do people watch before clicking off."
The important take away from this being that dislikes dont matter as a dislike, theres no difference between liking and disliking a video already.
follow me down a thought here.
They see websites like twitter that don't have a dislike button, just like, share(rertweet in this case), and comment. They also see that in these cases people that would normally hit the dislike button are FORCED to heavily interact with the material by posting a reply if they want to express their negative opinion of it, furthering total interaction by giving more comments to interact with AND putting more people in the comment section of a post to see those more comments to then interact with, giving more total time for people to be exposed to more ads in the sidebars that have long enough to "cycle" to the next ad, giving them more money and potentially generating more interactions total, as in multiple reply comments to other comments and also posting their own comment, that would have just been a single interaction, disliking the video and clicking away.