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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 same reason that a lot of crosswalks have fake buttons. So you feel like you have control.

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and why elevators have non functioning close buttons

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Some elevators.

All the ones near me have fully functional close buttons.

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While simultaneously undermining your sense of trust in the world

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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 downvotes are still counted, just not displayed. You can re-enable it via browser extensions.

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For videos. The commnt dislike has done nothing for years

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Oh, didn’t realize it was referring to comments. Yeah, that one’s pointless!

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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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Interesting, I wonder exactly how they work, then?

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some sort of estimate methodology

Hey GPT4 watch this video and tell me what its ratio of likes to dislikes would be

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