I've had several conversations with employees of YouTube recently, and the subject of bettering the platform comes up in each and every one of them. My one suggestion to them is to remove the dislike button.
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I see this mostly because there's very little value in the button itself. There's no critical feedback as to why something is just liked. So constructive criticism cannot be obtained off of it.
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Additionally, if the button was removed then the media wouldn't be able to report on videos being the most disliked in history which is then used as an attack on the community as a whole
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I don't have a solution for what would replace it, or if anything should replace it. But no other social media platform has one, and they operate just fine. Put on YouTube the dislike button is used more as a weapon than anything else.
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Ideally clicking dislike should show a text window and it will have "Why don't you like this video." and perhaps give some report to said youtuber to help better their channel. I dunno,, 2 cents here.
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Realistically this would be the easiest to implement, even just making it an optional feature when you upload a video, or an option to change after you've uploaded it. That would probably be effective. Dislike button should stay, just add feedback as an option.
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