It’s so dumb. Just let people rate it with the five stars. They’re so gun-ho with the algorithm let it do its job.
They don’t want you knowing what other people think of the video. It’s just about what you think of the video. Much easier to have an algorithmically perfect echo chamber if everyone is privately rating things and has no idea what others think about them.
It’s all bots anyway
The thumbs up/thumbs down thing was fine too.
I’m pretty sure that 99% of the time 1 and 5 stars options were used, so like/dislike is enough. There isn’t much point in including a “I have no strong feelings one way or another” button.
Sure there is: A known quantity is always better than an unknown quantity. Though would be far more informative if rating was mandatory, or otherwise defaulted to 3 stars or some such.
Then just assume that video that hasn’t been interacted with is 3 stars, same result. I could see there being an additional like above regular one, like love our something. But YT now kinda has the hype feature which I suppose does a similar job.
The final stage is not caring at all what you think user. Only consume.
Great movie btw. But this just gave me the perfect idea for an ad blocker, that would replace all the ads with these type of signs.
Someone smarter than, get on it!
https://www.reddit.com/r/Adblock/comments/70xaqa/a_they_live_adblocker_details_in_comments/
This uses Catblock with a custom image set, but Catblock hasn’t been updated in 6 years, so I don’t know how well it still works. Anyway, if Catblock won’t work, we have to find a blocker that allows for some customization and then fit those “They Live” images in.
(I’m trying to get Catblock to work, but somehow I can’t find any pages that even load ads? I think the pihole is blocking the scripts that would load the ads.)
I’m almost sure I’ve actually seen that implemented somewhere
what movie?
They Live (1988)
Like reverse google glasses ?
Then you start watching mostly your subscription list and they get angry their fancy algorithm isn’t working.
5 star rating are actually 4 star ratings with a free 20% boost.
Hate it. Gave my employer a bad review, 1-2 stars in most categories, and the average was still a 3.7?? I have to adjust my intuition when reading star reviews. Apparently 3.5 is bottom of the barrel.
The good news is: that reviews wasn’t really accurate.
The bad news is: that review wasn’t really anonymous.
I don’t understand, are you inferring the reviews do not accurately represent the results?
They just hiding performance metrics because they know it affects viewing habits, right?
The stars used to tell the company if the video was good.
The stars now tell the company how to tailor a version of reality specifically to what you want to see and feel.
“Oh man, I remember those days when the stars actually meant something! Now they’re just trying to push their own agenda on us.”
Anyone else notice that thumbs down is back, there just isn’t a counter. I’ve seen it for a few weeks now.
I’m pretty sure it never was different tho I usually use a plugin that shows thumbs-downs. It’s basically guessing for new videos so it’s not really useful but still
I’m pretty sure it counts the dislikes of the people who also have the extension installed, and extrapolates from that.
I’d be surprised if it did anything.
I get the first step. You don’t watch a video and have the urge to tell the world that it was neither good nor bad. I think they moved to stars because everyone just gave 1 or 5 eitherway
Yeah, that’s not definitely not on YouTube, the final ‘star score’ was effectively indicative only of the ratio of the 5-stars to the 1-stars. The infinitesimal minority that would actually thoughtfully rate 2, 3, or 4 stars made no difference at all.
Funny enough the dislike button is there but hidden. You can get extensions that show the thumbs down button and how many clicked it.
I’ve wondered about those. I always assumed they’d just show the down votes by others with the same extension.
Yes but extrapolated
In my experience, the extension is INCREDIBLY good. Whenever I get a shady video, it has dislikes, and normal videos almost never have any significant amount of dislikes. They’re as accurate as they can be but it’s more than enough to be useful.
Next step: you no longer can like or dislike the video.
Next step: you no longer choose a video, it just feeds it to you tiktok style
Eventually, mandatory video enemas are when things take a real turn.
The day when taking the phone to the toilet is mandatory
I blame Netflix for starting this shit, and I blame everyone who subscribes to them for allowing it.
I do not know why to use Netflix in the first place if you can simply visit free streaming platforms like HDREZKA, watch a few ads and then enjoy your film. Yeah, ads can be annoying sometimes but, at least, all is free, content doesn’t get removed simply because of it is no longer watched actively and no forced registration. And they also provide some useful features like the personal lists, collections, different sound records, history of publication for series and even the approximate schedule for the upcoming series which is really useful.
TBH, people often dislike bombed videos some pundit “disproved” it for them.
Every video that I ever saw with a like:dislike ratio like the one in frame 2 was being brigaded for reasons unrelated to video quality.
I mean, was it even supposed to be related to quality? If I dislike the content of a video I’m going to hit dislike even if it’s well made.
But yeah, I guess the ratios were usually from brigading.
When Blizzard said “Do You Guys Not Have Phones?” the problem was obviously not the quality of the video presented, it was the topic at hand and made perfect sense to have all the dislikes. It makes no sense to take that away from users.
