I like to think Youtube removed the dislike count because their youtube year in review videos were getting slammed with dislikes
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itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Users up voting and down voting controls what’s get popular, by not being transparent about it YouTube can promote crap no one wants to see.
It is just another form of enshitification.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 23 hours ago
How many people checked the like/dislike ratio before opening a video?
mechoman444@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
But they did this for one reason and one reason only to appease the companies they advertise for.
That is all. Marketers like safe mundane non-volatile markets. Having a lot of dislikes on a video creates a connotation to the advertisement being played on it.
This is nothing more than marketing.
And don’t forget marketing is one of the most evil institutions ever created by humanity.
13igTyme@piefed.social 1 day ago
There’s an extension that adds the dislike count back.
imetators@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 hours ago
It estimates dislike amount. I might be wrong but the way it works is that it puts likes from everyone, dislikes from ones who has this extension and an overall view count, mixes this data up in a formula and gives an output of approximate dislike count. Factual count is only known to creators.
itsjustachairmary@lemmy.world 23 hours ago
It’s unreliable from what I have read
takeda@lemmy.dbzer0.com 23 hours ago
Of course it is, because YouTube doesn’t provide the data so it is forced to derive the rating only from people who use that extension.
DreamlandLividity@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Well, I wouldn’t say unreliable. It does not match the real dislike count, because it only knows about the people using the extension. It’s like the difference between the official rating of an app on the google play store and some third party user review site. It’s not that one is more reliable than other, just different people contribute.
JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 22 hours ago
It’s not exact, but it’s still a useful indicator.
PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Gotta love the reddit watermark
jaybone@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
That’s the fifth step.
BananaOnionJuice@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Lookup the video on Reddit to see if it’s worth watching.
I rate this comment 🤡🤡🤡 out of 5 clowns.
GhostFace@lemmy.today 11 hours ago
I don’t mind everything except the last one.
People brigade content. It’s just better to use other metrics, like how long did someone engage with the content.
Gathorall@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
People do brigade content too. But that isn’t a reason to hide the data. It is the viewer’s responsibility to ponder the rating. People talk about critical thinking, but hiding the tools to practice it doesn’t actually help people to get better at it.
homes@piefed.world 23 hours ago
I use the super secret system of telling my favorite YouTubers how disappointed I am that they’re not gay when they announce that they’re having a baby
Viking_Hippie@lemmy.dbzer0.com 22 hours ago
The nerve!
marius@feddit.org 23 hours ago
How many stars is that equivalent to?
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Youtube had a star rating system for videos?
Shellofbiomatter@lemmus.org 1 day ago
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I’m sorry 🗿
Kolanaki@pawb.social 1 day ago
EmpatheticTeddyBear@lemmy.world 1 day ago
<starts playing Weird Al’s “Good Old Days”>
Furbag@pawb.social 1 day ago
The old YT player was perfect and nobody will convince me otherwise.
FinjaminPoach@lemmy.world 1 day ago
- I was baby then 😁.
It’s kind of amazing how long people have been putting up with youtube, compared to other social media + SM adjacent sites.
tal@lemmy.today 23 hours ago
drcobaltjedi@programming.dev 1 day ago
Early on yeah, they replaced it with the thumbs up/down system since most star ratings were 1 or 5.
eronth@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Eons ago, yes. It initially bothered me when they replaced it with thumbs up/down since I couldn’t rank things with nuance.
AmbitiousProcess@piefed.social 1 day ago
They used to, and they currently do too, but the current one isn’t meant to be an alternative to the like/dislike button like this portrays.
It’s most often in your feed, where occasionally it’ll show a video to you, then give you a tiny light blue box beneath it saying “how good of a recommendation is this” or something along those lines, then you rate it so they can both make the algorithm better overall, and fine-tune yours even if you don’t want to watch the video. (e.g. I might say “5 stars, this is a good recommendation,” but never watch it just because I don’t have the time. YouTube knows I like that topic now, just that I might not watch videos that are that long.)
Dearth@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Im confused. There’s still a dislike button on YouTube right now.
ddplf@szmer.info 1 day ago
sure, and it does a whole lot of nothing
pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Unless you have the extension
ICastFist@programming.dev 1 day ago
But you don’t get to see how many dislikes a video has
somewhiteguy@reddthat.com 1 day ago
“Secret” just like those emails I get from HR asking my opinions about management that are completely anonymous, but don’t forward this email or share the link with anyone else because it’s just for me…
U7826391786239@piefed.zip 1 day ago
and if you’re in a smaller organization, any details you provide for what you’re complaining about will instantly tell them exactly who you are
Triumph@fedia.io 1 day ago
Any detail will do that, really.
Prove_your_argument@piefed.social 1 day ago
I’ve sat in mid and upper level executive meetings about this stuff.
They 100% know exactly who did what review, it’s not secret no matter how much they swear up and down it is, if you’re high enough in the chain.
Lower middle management won’t be told who it was generally, especially if their report size is a handful. They still know exactly what was inputted though because they see the responses and can generally tell who it was based on that alone due to context hints.
fartographer@lemmy.world 21 hours ago
Who is this complaint about?
Them
What is this complaint regarding?
Ugly
When did this incident occur?
Always
Did you try finding a solution?
No too ugly
What action do you suggest could help resolve this conflict?
Shut up
Your concerns are always anonymous, but would you like to leave your name in case someone needs to follow up with you?
Your ugly mom
Z3k3@lemmy.world 1 day ago
I can confirm these are definitely confidential. In so far as your name isn’t on it. My place shows us the best and the worst comments
However we can usually tell who said what and me and my manager play a game of who said what each time it comes around.
Clent@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Definitely easier than taking action, right?
You’re on the wrong side of the meme.
lightnsfw@reddthat.com 1 day ago
We had a system like that when I was a manager. It was anonymous but I could usually still tell who it was based off the writing style on the comments or the fact that they were complaining about things that they had already brought up to me. I didn’t retaliate against anyone though. Usually I agreed with them and they were complaining about things I had no control over
gkaklas@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Depends on the system! Even for anonymous polls, you still need to have unique links to ensure that people don’t take it multiple times and bias the results. Even if it can track who has (not) answered the poll, it doesn’t mean that the answers are traced back to you!
If they want they still can track you though, so this is why we need tools that we can verify how they work, e.g. open source services, maybe hosted on a external trusted provider etc
oppy1984@lemdro.id 22 hours ago
I love these, keeps the toxic people out of management in my company. We have a yearly employee survey and the toxic people always complain about everything and everyone. They think it’s anonymous even though you have to click a link that’s emailed to you then login to the survey with your employee ID and password. Yeah dipshit it’s anonymous even though you just gave them your ID to be able to take the survey.
Me, 5 stars across the board and no additional comments. Any issues I have I take up with my manager directly and he can handle it from there with the right people.
somewhiteguy@reddthat.com 21 hours ago
You see, I’m the guy who gives his opinion in those. The trick is to be actionable. Don’t complain about things you can’t give direct advice on how to correct. Be kind in how you communicate and give the benefit of the doubt in all of the language.
Don’t: Your management style is shit
Do: It is difficult to complete my work with the lack of understanding on the business direction. I would like this communication to come from my direct manager.
fartographer@lemmy.world 19 hours ago
This is only tangentially related (email links encoded with trackers) but when I ran the technology for a school, our district network security officers ran a web security literacy audit by sending out a fake phishing email. Obviously, I was supposed to tell my staff to not click on anything in the email, and then forward it to me, or the district network security officers.
So, I sent an email to my campus, telling them to not click their link, and simply forward their emails to me. I pretty quickly suspected that the email was part of an internal audit, which was all but confirmed by the fact that they used a Google ad campaign generator that was hosted on our district domain. I also confirmed that every email link had unique identifiers in them, including the recipient’s employee ID, which I found extra funny.
So, I then got to work clicking on everyone’s links. It went to a suspicious-looking login screen, similar to our portal, then then took us to a video hosted on our district website about network security, and then that forwarded to a Google Form in which we were supposed to fill out our names, and answer some questions based on the video. For the login screen, I rotated through the network security officers’ employee IDs, and used passwords such as “OopsiePoopsieSuchARiskyClicky1!”
When I saw the Google Form, I then created a Google Sheet with everyone’s links, and then split the users into a separate column that had a randomized order so that the user info was unlikely to align with the link. Then, I used that to submit incorrect user info on each form so that it wouldn’t match my collected email address, and the reported email tracker ID. I also used the sheet to match tracker IDs with incorrect employee IDs, and clicked all of those links. I did this from my phone, my Chromebook, and my MacBook. I also was traveling to NJ that weekend, so I did the same thing, only from my phone, a few times in NJ, and wherever my layover was.
I had such a hard time containing my laughter when I got a call on Monday from the lead network security officer. He explained how they were at first concerned that my campus was the only one for which 100% of the recipients failed the security test. Not only did everyone seem to click their link, they did it multiple times. The security officers then checked if the page was loading properly, because they couldn’t figure out why people would keep following a phishing link. Then the security officers were really concerned that something went wrong with their collection methods, because every click came from the same few IP and MAC addresses; even worse, the user info from the Google forms didn’t align with the tracker IDs on their source Google Sheet. After that, they were really confused that everyone kept clicking their email links over the weekend, and that some of the recorded IP addresses were from out of state, but didn’t appear to be associated with a VPN. Finally, they looked at all the form submissions, and saw that over 98% of the form submissions all recorded the same logged in email address: mine.
So, they called my manager to ask why I would do such a thing, and my manager said, “that’s just what TheFartographer does.” So they called my department’s assistant director, who also explained, “that’s just what TheFartographer does.” Then, my department supervisor proactively called them to explain “that’s just what TheFartographer does.” During my call, I found out that I accounted for nearly 2000 submissions, which impressed me because we only had around 100-150 employees at my campus. We have around 30,000 employees throughout our district, so the network security team thought that around 7% of our users failed the security audit, but then found out that the number was closer to 1%. I was told that they eventually all had a good laugh about it, but then asked me to please never do that again.