[VanillaCafe]

Hilarious the visceral response here to the apparent and inevitable decline of YouTube content quality with the removal of a dislike count -- when Hacker News itself doesn't show a down vote count nor even a down vote button for a large portion of its population.

[Jensson]

If youtube gradually greyed out videos everywhere in the UI if they got a lot of dislikes instead of the current count then I don't think people would mind as much. But then dislike bombing would probably get even worse than now since greying out the content is a much more powerful signal to users.

[breakfastduck]

You are missing the mark very, very widely on an obvious difference.

Upvote and Downvote are NOT the same thing as Like and Dislike.

[kevinh]

In theory? Yes. In practice? I'd be very surprised if there was any distinction at all.

[postalrat]

HN does show if a comment has been downvoted enough. Does youtube?