Seeing that some rando disliked the video means very little on its own.

Much like most other data points, they're much less useful in isolation and bereft of context.

Point being, I think dislikes should be less heavily weighted than likes for the simple fact that they can be easily weaponized.Ĭlick to expand.You could, yes, but as I said, it's ' another point of data', not the point of data. Conversely, as a liberal, I could find as many liberal videos that align with my thinking, and I'd probably watch those videos in their entirety to appreciate the echo chamber of my beliefs, and I'd 'like' them. It also takes a second to like a video, but a like is more telling since it means someone ostensibly sat through it and enjoyed it enough to throw their hat in the ring of 'yes, I want to see more stuff like that.' I'm probably what most would considered a liberal I could go on YouTube right now and click on as many conservative videos as I can find and dislike them within 5 seconds of the video even playing. I've started hundreds of videos and stopped them after a minute or two and they weren't even worth my time to officially dislike them. I mean, consider how many people sit through an entire video's content. I'm not sure how telling dislikes are, though. This can only be for manipulative algorithmic purposes, I'd assume. Which only begs the question why disabling dislikes does anything.

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