YouTube Removes the Dislike Counter

It was announced in March, but today YouTube has officially made it: the platform will remove the dislike counter. The thumb down for I do not like itself is preserved, so you can know his feelings (and influence his own YouTube algorithm), if it is really necessary. Only the public counters are abolished, which shows how often the Dislike button has been clicked.

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After testing the idea at the beginning of the year, YouTube liked the idea:

We at YouTube strive to be a place where the Creator of all sizes and backgrounds can find and share your voice. To make sure YouTube promotes respectful interactions between spectators and creators, we have introduced several functions and guidelines to the To improve the audience. At the beginning of this year, we experimented with the Dislike button to find out if changes can help to better protect our creatives from harassment and reduce dislike attacks — in which people try the number of dislikes to drive for the videos of a creative to the height.

As part of this experiment, the viewers could continue to see and use the refusal button. However, since the number of rejections was not visible, we realized that the likelihood that you control the Dislike button of a video to increase the number of rejections is lower. In short, our experimental data showed a decline in dislikes. We also have directly from smaller authors and those who just start first, that they are affected by unfair way from this behavior — and our experiment has confirmed that this is the case on smaller channels to a higher proportion This should indeed help smaller content creators that are attacked in this way, and protect their channel from the negative consequences that can have it, if newcomers have massively seeing videos.

At the same time, users are taken the opportunity to negatively comment on campaigns of large companies. This type of protest will no longer be visible and, for example, Coca-Cola can not be detrimental for strange gaming advertising.

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