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by VanillaCafe 1688 days ago
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.
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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.
You are missing the mark very, very widely on an obvious difference.

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

In theory? Yes. In practice? I'd be very surprised if there was any distinction at all.
HN does show if a comment has been downvoted enough. Does youtube?