Why the dislikes decision was one of YouTube's most harmful, and how to fix it

2 points by Lanskoy_Kirill ↗ HN
This also led to the fact that people without seeing the counter began to rate videos much less, and Google untied video promotion from comments and dislikes even earlier, so now these are just useless buttons ... Well, in 2021, dislikes were removed and this was the decision that most users perceived negatively. Three years have passed and I see how content has degraded in IT, mathematics, and scientific fields. Only normal channels remain, working by inertia. The worst thing is that it is impossible to understand how bad this video is if you are not an expert (but then why are you watching it?).

The most surprising thing is that the stated problem was then solved in much more progressive ways, here are some of them: 1. Forbid users to put reactions if they did not watch the video at least 20% (oops! and bot farms would become less effective.) 2. Use YouTube algorithms to search for bots, unjustified raids on young users. 3. Forbid deleting comments (this should be highlighted in bold, because many do not know that the author of the channel can delete comments and ban users). YouTube algorithms have already learned to find unreasonable criticism or something that contradicts their censorship)))

Why haven't users done anything about this yet (Return Dislike is there, but after closing to YouTube API, their rating is too inaccurate...)?

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And usually likes and dislikes show real quality of the video. Bots attacks have been seldom, I think here YouTube lied a little bit:) The first idea on how to reach Google is to write negative reviews in the App Store and PlayMarket and not use the app.