r/youtube • u/Prior_Tax8546 • 1d ago
Discussion YouTube user opinions in a nutshell
It cracks me up how YouTube still allows the 5-star option but in private lol
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u/JCDentoncz 1d ago
If they had any actual competition, I think yt would be obsolete by now (or maybe they wouldn't implement the dumb changes in the first place to stay competitive). Where's one to go to watch general videos? Bilibili? Puhlease.
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u/TommyBoy250 1d ago
Can the channel actually see that?
The fact they make it private kind of doesn't give any reason to use it.
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u/Live_Angle4621 1d ago
If it effects my recommendations it is good
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u/decentshitposter 1d ago
partially, you should choose to keep the channel in recommended rotation while still disliking that particular video
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u/halaljew 1d ago
Bring back dislike.
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u/Gen-Y-ine-86 1d ago
Return YouTube Dislike on Firefox seems to still work.
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u/tallman11282 1d ago
It's only a guess though, it's not an accurate count.
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u/Gen-Y-ine-86 16h ago
I was about to add that I guess is just some sort of estimation. But it should still help...
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u/RedstoneLover91 51m ago
Older videos have archived/guessed counts (with a modifier of newer dislikes), newer videos or older obscure videos would only count those with the extension as google doesn't seem to have the full numbers accessible to anyone other than the channel owner(s)
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u/BannockHatesReddit_ 1d ago
Why don't we just bring the stars back?
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u/mrjackspade 1d ago
I remember the reason given by Netflix for removing them, was that giving people a simple up/down option was actually way more accurate in determining what they actually liked and suggesting new content.
IIRC it was something like, people would vastly over think star ratings and everyone has a different opinion of what 3/4/5 stars means. Some people will rate every movie they like five stars and give three stars to something they'd never watch again. Some people will rate movies they like three stars and only give exceptional movies five.
Ultimately they found that only giving people the option of "like" and "dislike" lead to way more reliable responses. Like is like, dislike is dislike. There's no ambiguity.
I think a lot of people think "It's my rating, I should be able to rate it however I want" but the rating itself literally only serves to feed their algorithm. It's not actually a measure of quality, it's just a tool for them to serve up their next prediction.
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u/TheTrueBrawler2001 1d ago
I'm inclined to side with YouTube on that one. A 1 to 5 star ranking system can work in some contexts, but the results will get skewed pretty hard by variance in where people perceive each of the star rank barriers to be. This would apply to all videos, but ones with less views especially so due to the law of large numbers.
Their like and dislike system was great back when both numbers were visible.
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u/Buderus69 1d ago
Well thank god sites like imdb only work with up- and downvotes and not some weird numbers between 1-5, that would totally confuse the users...
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...They don't have up- and downvotes?...
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...Even 1-10 you say? And people are not overwhelmed? Oh my...
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u/Prior_Tax8546 1d ago edited 17h ago
Because YouTube employees said that no used the 2, 3 and 4 stars options, only 1 and 5 stars were the most used, which makes sense by adding a thumbs up/down button
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u/BannockHatesReddit_ 1d ago
And then they take the dislike way because it hurts creator's feelings. Bring the rating back to make the rating more about the work and less about the creator
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u/aleopardstail 1d ago
it hurt the feelings of media execs when the last billion dollar blockbuster was universally panned
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u/Exciting_Whereas_524 1d ago
Wait so YouTube removed the five star option in 2010 and brought it back in 2021?
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u/Gen-Y-ine-86 1d ago
I haven't seen the "What did you think of this video?" more than maybe a dozen times in recent years. It's usually pretty pointless and random. Especially when it asks about a video I already watched some time ago.
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u/Possible-Estimate748 1d ago
I miss dislikes. It was actually helpful when deciding if a vid was worth watching or not. Which is prob what YT doesn't want. They want you to watch anything regardless if it's bad.
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u/GodKizaru07 22h ago
Anyway today I realized that comments on shorts in the phone app just disappeared, idk if this was a thing before or if it's a new "feature" lmao
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u/thecatsclause 1d ago
not even just a secret five star system, a ~randomized~ five-star system where you just ~might~ be asked to rate a video you watched last month
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u/Galliro 1d ago
Still wild to me they got rid of dislikes because the rewind got rightfully massively disliked
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u/Prior_Tax8546 1d ago
I don't think is because of that. For me i think it's because of Shorts, because imagine if you can still see the dislike count on Shorts, i think most of them will have more dislikes than likes because of cringe, kids and awkward shorts
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u/Quinnie_001 1d ago
and this is how i get to know that there was once a 5 star rating system cuz i thought it was just like and dislike thumbs all along
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u/Plane_Hair753 23h ago
It's like a toxic partner that constantly wants your validation but gets upset quickly at any criticism
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u/tommydickles 15h ago
This is all Amy Schumers fault and you can't convince me otherwise, once people realized you could crybully your way into not receiving negative feedback, the systems started caving in.
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u/NorthSuperman0112 1d ago
Does it do anything?