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YouTube is removing the dislike count on all videos (archive.md)
posted 4 years ago by YesMovement 4 years ago by YesMovement +155 / -0
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– YesMovement [S] 34 points 4 years ago +34 / -0

This is the reason YT gives: https://archive.md/a9zG0

To reduce targeted dislike attacks & their impact on creators (esp on smaller creators)

This is really why: https://twitter.com/TyCardon/status/1458503508898959368

It's the MSM bullshit the people are saying no to.

https://twitter.com/ElijahSchaffer/status/1458524597465325572

Their content gets downvoted and ours doesn’t. They always rig the game in their favor so people think the content is watchable. It’s all propaganda from them and we see right through it

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– deleted 15 points 4 years ago +15 / -0
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– altmehere 14 points 4 years ago +14 / -0

But whatever, if it's enemy propaganda it would be better to not give the video views at all.

This 100%. Even under the existing system dislikes count as engagement.

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– BidenLikesMiners 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

he just copired this much older comments idea

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– deleted 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0
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– SparkMandrill83 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

and? its a good idea.

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– my-oh-mai 4 points 4 years ago +4 / -0

If you want to watch youtube videos, check out Invidious. A website that allows you to watch youtube videos without youtube.

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– bamboozler1 3 points 4 years ago +3 / -0

I think they disabled comments on most “mainstream” things (yadda yadda, the excuse YT will give is that “creators” can decide whether they want to allow comments or not) waaaaay before this announcement, sadly…

So even that isn’t an option.

YouTube is becoming a censored, whitewashed (in the sense of blancmange, rather than “white people”), “endless present”, walled garden sort of place, and it’s rather sad…

“Don’t be evil - yeah, we’d better scrap that before they catch on”, says Google…

Ahahaha fuck I hate them so much. 😒

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– bamboozler1 2 points 4 years ago +2 / -0

At least, that’s the case where I live…

No idea if YouTube applies different Beta “rule changes” in different countries, as a test, but I’m sure they probably do. Like app companies (fucking InstaFace, for one) do.

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– GilaMonsterous 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

I read elsewhere the dislikes will still be visible to the creator, just not to the general public. So that given reason is complete bullshit if this is true.

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– fauxgnaws 6 points 4 years ago +6 / -0

Also Ghostbusters trailer.

Before: 321k likes, 1.1m dislikes
Now: 321k likes.

They're salty that their idiocy gets downvotes so they pretend they're the victims. It's not 'dislike attacks' people just think woke is dumb.

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– Steampunk_Moustache 5 points 4 years ago +5 / -0

Just like in 2014 or so when news sites started removing their comment sections. The excuse given is to prevent 'abuse', but the real reason is stop people countering the prescribed narrative.

They don't want the plebs being able to tell how unpopular something is. They want the plebs unable to hear eachother, and only able to hear the propaganda machine.

The noose keeps tightening.

Globalized slavery to an international elite is the goal.

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