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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Like how you used the flagging/reporting feature as a weapon?
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Replying to @greyhairedsnake @TeamYouTube
I did use it. Nothing happened as a result. Doesn't make it right, but that is the truth.
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Replying to @mjarbo @mundanematt and
Sorry, our system is complete garbage, since we totally care about user experience, we’ll make minor changes to help. Introducing the Notification Bell so you don’t know when your favourite channels post.
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Except for that one video @JamesAllsup pointed out that DID get removed
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