No it isn’t. Now people will not be able to comment on videos if the creator decides to make a controversial video. Without dislikes and now the ability to disable comments, youtubers can make up any kind of garbage and misleading content and you will not be able to verify it by looking at the dislikes or comments.
Yea I remember that argument being used for when they removed likes/dislikes - surprise, YT’s not flooded with false videos any more than it was before.
And it doesn’t surprise me that some shithead that uses the term poojeet is against tools to help reduce toxic brigading.
I like giving more tools to the creators and honestly even a little better moderation.
I don’t really dig them removing all the indicators of poor content though. Doing the math of how old is this, how popular is the subject, and shouldn’t it have more likes,It’s honestly getting a bit old. It doesn’t surface itself as much if you mainly stick to watching certain content providers for entertainment, but when you’re actually looking for discussions on a subject, instructions on doing… well anything, it isn’t as easy as it used to be.
I know someone who’s trying to become a content creator on YT and is trying to study The Algorithm to make it work in their favor. My impression of Google’s direction for YouTube is that they want to take over agency of curation from the user to The Algorithm.
That is, I believe they don’t want people to look at views, likes, comments to know if something’s worth it - they want people to find/trust videos returned by the search results and recommended videos list. My guess is that may fuzz lower view count videos next, but who knows.
Could be, at least at the moment it doesn’t seem to be helping my search results. I used to be able to find helpful valid videos within the first couple of hits, now after you get about 4 or 5 videos deep It starts giving you tangently related things. I’m having to go back and put quotes in my search and phrase it different ways. Maybe part of a problem was the production quality of the valid helpful videos was poor. One of the best sources used to be the odd middle eastern kid typing in notepad. Here’s how you fix this one specific problem in this one specific version of a program. He would open the program run through a few settings and show you exactly where the setting is, and that was it It was a 30-42 second video. I honestly miss those.
Removed by mod
This sounds like a positive change though
No it isn’t. Now people will not be able to comment on videos if the creator decides to make a controversial video. Without dislikes and now the ability to disable comments, youtubers can make up any kind of garbage and misleading content and you will not be able to verify it by looking at the dislikes or comments.
Yea I remember that argument being used for when they removed likes/dislikes - surprise, YT’s not flooded with false videos any more than it was before.
And it doesn’t surprise me that some shithead that uses the term poojeet is against tools to help reduce toxic brigading.
I like giving more tools to the creators and honestly even a little better moderation.
I don’t really dig them removing all the indicators of poor content though. Doing the math of how old is this, how popular is the subject, and shouldn’t it have more likes,It’s honestly getting a bit old. It doesn’t surface itself as much if you mainly stick to watching certain content providers for entertainment, but when you’re actually looking for discussions on a subject, instructions on doing… well anything, it isn’t as easy as it used to be.
I know someone who’s trying to become a content creator on YT and is trying to study The Algorithm to make it work in their favor. My impression of Google’s direction for YouTube is that they want to take over agency of curation from the user to The Algorithm.
That is, I believe they don’t want people to look at views, likes, comments to know if something’s worth it - they want people to find/trust videos returned by the search results and recommended videos list. My guess is that may fuzz lower view count videos next, but who knows.
Could be, at least at the moment it doesn’t seem to be helping my search results. I used to be able to find helpful valid videos within the first couple of hits, now after you get about 4 or 5 videos deep It starts giving you tangently related things. I’m having to go back and put quotes in my search and phrase it different ways. Maybe part of a problem was the production quality of the valid helpful videos was poor. One of the best sources used to be the odd middle eastern kid typing in notepad. Here’s how you fix this one specific problem in this one specific version of a program. He would open the program run through a few settings and show you exactly where the setting is, and that was it It was a 30-42 second video. I honestly miss those.
You are the reason the internet is shit today. Go back to your safe space.
A literal kid telling an oldfag that he’s the reason the internet is shit today. Ok, lol