Doesn’t the quagmire currently known as the website formerly known as Twitter already have this feature? Sounds like Y’tube is late to the party.
That’s not going to go wrong at all.
I feel like this is what the comment section is used for.
Comments section are not voted on by users.
? They absolutely are…
So the upvotes and downvotes in the comments don’t do anything?
Probably not. Or maybe every vote counts as “engagement” and pushes it to the top.
Can the channel owner delete comments on their videos?
Yes, as well as automatically hiding new comments.
which is unfortunate, i think YT does it to save paid labor on moderating comments, but this allows video posters to upload misleading info and delete correcting replies, which also pairs well with hidden thumbs down
It also allows uploaders to stop hate filled posting, like incels trashing the comments on anything positive about female characters in media.
Honestly, I’d rather the channel have the first say here. It would be even better if some independent mod team could override channel owners though if there are enough reports.
Enough reports is how brigades are effective.
There isn’t a great solution that solves all the possibilities, it is a difficult problem. An independent mod team sounds great until you get into the details of how they are formed and the fact that they are people too who might miss nuance or hold their own shitty opinions.
Sure, but a manual review is way better than any form of automated system. To combat brigading, the mod team could issue temporary suspensions if that’s deemed to be the case, and full bans if the behavior is repeated.
It would be quite expensive for YouTube to do that, so it’s not happening. Best we’re getting is some automated nonsense, probably based on AI.
It also allows uploaders to stoke hate with their videos and delete reasonable takes and people calling out misinformation in the comments.
Which one is worse depends on the context of the video.
And Youtube will 100% allow creators to hide notes, as well. Corporations will not allow themselves to be criticized on their own pages.
I value my mental health too much to regularly dive into the YouTube comment section
I must be watching different videos than the people complaining about YouTube comments. The ones I see are virtually all positive.
Don’t just look at the comments. Look at the replies to the top comments. 8 out of 10 times they turn super toxic super quickly in my experience.
Thanks bruh, if I had the patience to deal with ads maybe I’d watch YouTube.
because twitter community notes is such a dumpster fire for nazis to spread disinformation, youtube was like hey we want some of that…
The motto google lives by.
I mean, if this is basically Twitter’s Community Notes feature, but for YouTube, I’m all for it. Bit of a balancing act, but it’s the last thing that hasn’t been completely wrecked now that Twitter became Xitter.
i mean community notes under elon’s twitter is just a way for bigots to pile on and harass marginalised people though
Honestly never seen that happen.
Most times, I see it used on ads, political figures, and Elon himself.
So more virtue signal crap. Got it.
Amazing how often user’s notes disagree with your worldview isn’t it?
I wonder where the problem stems from. Could they all be wrong?
It’s amazing how your worldview lines up with what the media told you to say. Not a single independent thought.
Who told you to say that? Seriously you obviously didn’t think it up yourself since everyone of you sounds the exact same, so who is it who owns you?
When conservative media pushes the same news script to over 200 local news stations across the nation, it is dangerous to our democracy.
Why do conservative “independent thoughts” always result in the dumbest shit I’ve ever heard?
Because some of the dumbest people in the world are the ones who told them to say it.
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This guy is a dumbass lmao
You sound stupid when you don’t have independent thought. Maybe not here in this circle jerk but in the real world.
You are very angry about this
…Must have been the wind.
This is just for training AI.
I miss when Youtube had community sourced subtitles and those little annotations on the video…
Wait, didn’t this feature already exist for years and then was shut down??
Didn’t they take away crowd-sourced subtitles before?
Damn I miss those. Nowadays it’s really hard to find a video that’s in another language and has subtitles. The only subtitles you will find are the automatically-generated ones, which suck
They’re at least understandable (usually), but they’re like 5-10 seconds behind the video (sometimes longer), and they can be difficult to interpret at times.
They’re only about 90% accurate and usually that’s better than nothing, but sometimes the little bit that’s wrong is very confusing
So now we have to read a community note to know a video is garbage instead of just seeing a massive dislike bar and clicking off?
Didn’t they take away the dislike button?
The removed the dislike count a couple years ago, so you can no longer see if a video is terrible.
The thumbnail and title alone is typically enough to know how garbage it is.
you can still see that number on smarttube
“Return YouTube Dislike” extension for Firefox and Chrome.
Works surprisingly well even after all this time. I often forget its been removed.
It isn’t a real count of users who have clicked the dislike button, YouTube no longer makes that data available.
So I would not put much stock in that number.
I’m well aware of how it works.
Then why put any stock in it whatsoever
It’s not real though, you do know that right? There isn’t some hidden dislike count that YT has that the extension can access.
I imagine it’s taken from other users of the extension clicking the dislike button. A biased and wildly uneven sample. I would not put much stock in it at all.
Can confirm it is real, I have it installed right now via revanced, Grayjay, and Firefox extension.
Also, I have a terrible imagination, but that’s OK, as it’s open source and you can see how it’s calculated on their github.
It takes the ration of likes to dislikes from users of the service, and applies that ratio to the total number of likes to estimate the total number of dislikes.
It also archived a lot of video’s dislike counts before the dislike field was removed from the API.
As a user of the extension who knows how it works (no thanks to yourself), take it with whatever sized grain of salt you feel comfortable with.
It’s “real” as in it exists, but you say so yourself that it’s just an estimate.
LOL definitely a real comment by a real person. Dislike bar…
It was a bar that showed the ratio of likes to dislikes
Yeah, the dislike bar used to be a thing. You could see how many dislikes there were compared to likes, all represented on a line below the two buttons. It was sort of like this image, except imagine the “yes” and “no” as a single line (but retaining their separate colors).
Wait till you tell him youtube used to have a 5-star rating system
I don’t see what was wrong with the comment of /u/voyajer. Can you elaborate?
The dislike bar was real, I’ll tell ya, I’ve lived nigh on eighty years and me own two eyes seent the dislike bar clear as day! Ye better believe, sonny, it’s the truth!
It’s our duty to describe all videos as pizza glue recipes.
So we can explicitly graffiti videos but we can’t add translations. 🤯
Advertisers working in your native language cannot hijack your attention when foreign language videos are running. Subtitling facilitates that, and encourages site activity that differs from consumption, such as broadening one’s horizons and being inquisitive about the real world.
what could possibly go wrong
