YouTube is experimenting with Notes, a crowdsourced feature that lets users add context to videos

Re-Enabling the dislike button would help too

I agree but there’s also an add-on for that

Yeah but it’s not that accurate, and it leaves most normal mobile users out of the picture. I know YouTube knew exactly what they were doing when they removed dislikes, but it still seems absolutely insane to remove such a useful tool for sifting through the bullshit.

Nah. Low value signal. Easy to game.

It was removed because Biden got too many downvotes. It’ll be back soon. It was stupid of them to take it away.

That’s not why it was removed

It was removed not long after one of their Rewind vids was disliked to hell.

And it ain’t coming back, at least they haven’t so much as hinted at it

Nah, that’s what they told you and you believed. Don’t be a fool for the media. It’s a bad look.

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.

“Return YouTube Dislike” extension for Firefox and Chrome.

you can still see that number on smarttube

The thumbnail and title alone is typically enough to know how garbage it is.

LOL definitely a real comment by a real person. Dislike bar…

It was a bar that showed the ratio of likes to dislikes

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!

I don’t see what was wrong with the comment of /u/voyajer. Can you elaborate?

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 feel like this is what the comment section is used for.

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

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.

? They absolutely are…

Technically they are, but I’m not sure how confident I am in YouTube showing you comments I a reasonable order regardless.

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.

another chance to provide free labour to train their AI!

I’m sure the annotations will be intelligent and insightful…

Yeah clearly training data does get much review for these peasant facing products. I am assuming real tool will take legions of pros to properly tune up.

The issue not LLM per we, the issue is that none of these clown companies appear to do Amy data quality control. They just rush whatever janky thing they got to drive headlines.

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

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