Next step: you must have a camera enabed to use YouTube so we can directly monitor your facial expressions with AI✨ and save you precious rating time to recommend you better videos!
But really so we can ensure you’re watching the ads.
I know I am not alone here, because Lemmy and all, but holy god damn does that little AI sparkle trigger me more than any other AI term or image.
All I want to say is:
I rarely like any video so much that I want to give it a solid 👍
Its also pretty rare for 👎
But I’ll rate stuff on a scale of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ every day of the week.
Also, hiding 👎 is completely brain-dead stupid.
Also, hiding 👎 is completely brain-dead stupid.
I think, it depends on the platform. The reason why many platform don’t show them is the constant negativity simply caused by different opinions.
40 people agree with your post, 60 don’t agree… I call that pluralism. But showing a -20 for example could motivate the person to delete their post, which leads to echo chambers.
My Lemmy instance does not show any downvotes by the way and I like it. If one disagrees with me, they can leave a comment.
You can’t see it, but more people disagree with you than agree with you.
Just FYI.
You’re entitled to your opinion, and you like what you like. So don’t worry, be happy.
The stars used to tell the company if you thought the video quality was good.
The stars now tell the company how to tailor a version of reality specifically to what you want to see and feel.
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.)
Your PiHole probably is (blocking the ads). Shoutout to the PiHole team!
what movie?
They Live (1988)
There’s a war on negative feedback.
It’s not good for business.
Now be happy.
The thing is, people themselves outside of business motives hate negativity.
People regularly get angry at others for bringing up criticisms of everything from foods to their favourite media products.
Even decades ago they’d give them names like negative Nancy, and within social settings the worst people often can win by weaponizing civility to quell legitimate backlash against immoral actions.
I mean, fuck, think about how many stories you’ve heard of people who have been the victims of sexual assault, who get told by normal people to shut up and whose experiences were diminished because it harshed other peoples mellow?
People suck, and one of the biggest reasons people suck, is they would prefer a harmful peaceful positivity than a tumultuous improvement causing negativity.
I think these companies are hooking into these human flaws in ways that hurt us, and benefit them with information asymmetry.
I don’t think we can properly fix these flaws without somehow getting normal people to acknowledge that negativity is not just good, but vitally important.
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.
Wouldn’t the simplest solution be to only expose the other ratings after you rate?
Well it isn’t beneficial for the company because people might realize they hold unpopular opinions and the company wants to be able to control the people’s opinions regardless of popularity, that way they can keep users on the site engaging with that content for longer.
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.
It’s all bots anyway
Then you start watching mostly your subscription list and they get angry their fancy algorithm isn’t working.
The like/dislike system is better than stars IMO.
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.
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.
Problem with the stars system is that people with RTL languages use it backwards. So you’ll often get 1 start with a positive feedback.
