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[–] [email protected] 86 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Here I am wondering why there is still a downvote button in the YouTube comments... it does nothing!

[–] [email protected] 36 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 18 points 2 years ago (1 children)

and why elevators have non functioning close buttons

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Some elevators.

All the ones near me have fully functional close buttons.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

true, it definitely depends where you live. If you’re in the US then it’s definitely a case of most don’t work, because most elevators at this point have been made after 1990, but if you live somewhere else then it can definitely be a case of some, or even none

but that said there definitely are functioning crosswalk buttons that work so being pedantic about some, most, etc, is irrelevant because as long as there are any that dont work its relevant to the topic

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

While simultaneously undermining your sense of trust in the world

[–] [email protected] 26 points 2 years ago (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Pretty sure those extensions all use some sort of estimate methodology, the dislikes aren't available via any apis or anything

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Interesting, I wonder exactly how they work, then?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've never used one myself but I've heard talk of various ones either A) taking the public (real) like number and extrapolating the dislikes based on an old like/dislike ratio available for the video from before the dislike removal (doesn't work on new videos) or B) the extension includes a feature where the user can like/dislike the video within the extension and then the dislike number is extrapolated using the public (real) like number and the extension's private like/dislike ratio. In either case the number is not connected to the "real" dislike count that YouTube would have access to internally

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 years ago

some sort of estimate methodology

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

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

For videos. The commnt dislike has done nothing for years

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago

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