[yellowbanana]

This is attacking a problem that happens 1% of the time to ruin experience for the 99% of the time.

=> I mean, if a multi-month, google-scale experiment says it helps, it... probably does?

Helps who?

Youtube user incentives are not necessary alligned the with company incentives. If it helps by making you a "peaceful" consumer who can't assess on average how other people think.

Maybe it is good for youtube but is it good for you.

[otrahuevada]

Given that they've decided to go ahead and remove it, I'd wager that the amount of people for which the public dislike count of a video is the one thing that makes their visit worthwhile is not huge.

Also, publishers still get to see it, it's only viewers that won't. Which probably means we'll all have to engage a lot more with the algorithm to route around garbage, but I kind of do that already so I'm not convinced it's a dealbreaker.

> Helps who?

>> "Earlier this year, we experimented with the dislike count to see whether or not changes could help better protect creators from harassment, and reduce dislike attacks – where people work to drive up the number of dislikes on a creator’s videos"

Creators, apparently.