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Here I am wondering why there is still a downvote button in the YouTube comments… it does nothing!
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The downvotes are still counted, just not displayed. You can re-enable it via browser extensions.
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Pretty sure those extensions all use some sort of estimate methodology, the dislikes aren’t available via any apis or anything
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Actually it’s worse than nothing. Youtube promotes comments based on engagement, so while only an upvote increases the tally, voting at all still makes it more visible.
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The same reason that a lot of crosswalks have fake buttons. So you feel like you have control.
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Some elevators.
All the ones near me have fully functional close buttons.
