Trashboat@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 months ago
If only there could’ve been a way to know if a video is helpful and worthwhile or not at a glance…
I mean could we sort the results by likes/dislikes? I don’t remember that being a thing but maybe I am misremembering. Like usually it was “relevancy” whatever is that or views.
So yeah you could ignore from the result the ones with a lot of disliked but I don’t think we had other than that.
Of course they could have implemented that as well.
Remember that Youtube works specifically on engagement, which is why everyone gets thrown down the right-wing rabbit hole automatically. They disabled the downvote because it meant less ad revenue for Google since there were videos that people weren’t watching.
Dislikes are no longer publicly visible, unless you use an extension (which would use mostly crowdsourced or interpolated data). There are extensions that show the likes/dislikes before clicking the video, but you cannot sort by it.
I know I meant when they were visible.
A long time ago when they used the 1-5 star system, I think it was
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Yeah, because thumbs up and down has never ever led to shitty content.
Highlighting actual experts is a far better system.
webghost0101@sopuli.xyz 5 months ago
We should have some faith in our official institution but were all human. If anything being an expert can make people more prone to serious mistakes because of bias.
Its in everyone interested for the public to speak up fast if official information is wrong or dangerous.
The downvote thing is an old issue though. I actually see many other problems but believe it will still end up a net plus.
My main concern is who choses the expert? Will it be a local one? in the users own language? Or will YouTube hire their own experts to make these videos themselves.
What do they do if doctors cant agree on a best method but multiple methods have videos online?
narc0tic_bird@lemm.ee 5 months ago
Or, you know, you could do both :o
stoly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
lol yet here you are participating in a system that you apparently think is shitty lol
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
Am I asking you for medical advice? Strange. I thought I was reading 90% shit posts.
stoly@lemmy.world 5 months ago
And here I am reading troll posts. Too bad.
rab@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I mean you can still see dislikes with the browser extension, can you link even a single video that’s “shitty content” that doesn’t have a ton of dislikes?
People aren’t stupid and like/dislike is a good system
LemmyIsFantastic@lemmy.world 5 months ago
So like, were you actually living in an isolated Afghanistan cave in the first year (fuck even now) of COVID?
rab@lemmy.ca 5 months ago
I’m not sure what point you’re trying to make