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ataylor32 | 4 years ago

Agreed. Here is a video titled "How a simple Django application works" that is 8 minutes long. It has 29 likes and 27 dislikes. It's a pretty poor quality video, in my opinion.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU2SeliQvMM

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greggman3|4 years ago

56 total votes is a signal to me that is not a good tutorial. No need for a like/dislike ratio

nameisname|4 years ago

On a video with 45,000 views I think the number of votes total doesn't matter as much as how many are up and down.

OJFord|4 years ago

Take away the dislike count and you take away the total count too.

fouc|4 years ago

it's a video with low number of views though, 56 total votes is probably not a signal in that case.

supernovae|4 years ago

Perhaps youtube is the wrong medium for a lot of things and dislikes may not be the best way to express that.

Youtube is borderline stupid right now for most channels that don't have organic growth... what they should do is re-open monetization and live streaming to everyone as its creating its own hell hole if you ask me with the 9 minutes of smash the like button and 1 minute of content we're seeing on every channel that isn't organically growing or making money through other means.

rhizome|4 years ago

They've changed the sidebar algo/design in the past six months or so and I tell ya, I used to actually use it, but not anymore at all. It's basically been remodeled into the same "front page" business case as Soundcloud, Amazon, and any other "choose from a variety of things that may or may not be sponsored (but almost always are) and only ever relate to your watch history by chance."