[aquadrop]

Dislikes are good not just for identifying bad videos, but also good videos. You can see it in the like/dislike ratio. The higher the better, videos with ratio around >98-99% have very high probability of being good etc

[lightgreen]

Comparison of likes to views works well enough. Actually, they don't even need likes, they can understand good and bad videos just by analysing how long viewers spent viewing the video.

Likes (and dislikes) are needed mostly for viewers who might want to feel helpful.

[nitrogen]

View time isn't adequate if a video isn't obviously bad until the very end though.

[lightgreen]

Good videos which end terribly are exceptionally rare.

Dislike mobs do more harm. They probably ignore dislikes already.

[duskwuff]

> Good videos which end terribly are exceptionally rare.

1. Videos which promise to show something that never actually appears

2. Very short videos which are difficult to not watch in their entirety

[aquadrop]

I don't need "them" to analyse it, I want it for myself.