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by AHappyCamper 1497 days ago
Without being able to ratio likes to dislikes, every video on YouTube becomes useless for information value. Every video is now for entertainment only, which is what the communist radical left wants - when there is no truth, then whoever shouts the loudest becomes the voice of truth. They have taken a big step towards ruining the internet.
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dane-pgp 1497 days ago
Ah yes, the communist radical left who famously want large private corporations to enable the people with the most resources to dominate public discourse.

Please stop and think of a testable hypothesis, or actually talk to some of these supposed communist radical leftists, before making any more grand claims like this.

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martin_a 1497 days ago
> the communist radical left

Didn't you find any bigger words?

In the end it's about engagement. Without the dislike count you'll have to watch more videos to find the good ones, so there's more chances to show ads, which is good for revenue.

But yeah, communist world conspiracy is more likely.

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celdon25 1497 days ago
Not sure about communism, but your reasoning has nothing to do with the official explanation given by YT. The “dislike attacks” they speak of in this blog post were notoriously common on any video featuring a politician from the Democratic Party in the USA. I never saw it happen elsewhere with such consistency. Hope that clears things up.

https://blog.youtube/news-and-events/update-to-youtube/

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martin_a 1496 days ago
If any of them all, YouTube knows how to disable content for a single country/region. Just deactivate the like/dislike counter for North America then.

I think those "dislike attacks" are a welcome argument to push a feature nobody is interested in, which mainly drives engagement by making it harder to find a good video and leads to more "clickthroughs".

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