<story><title>No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me</title><text>Spoiler: rant.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what happened exactly but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure it&amp;#x27;s the lack of dislike stats, that now my suggestions and home page of youtube is filled, and I mean FILLEDDD!, with videos that have 4k stock clips, catchy title, but completely lacking in content. Misleading 100%. Not 1, not 2, but like 8&amp;#x2F;10 videos are now garbage stock footage with bs commentary over nothing.&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;p&gt;Nasa just discovered truth about solar system!?!?!?!&lt;p&gt;Science has progressed a lot in last 100 years....&lt;p&gt;So and so first discovered pluto in 1xxx&lt;p&gt;Mayans used to think balbala...&lt;p&gt;Some historians think....&lt;p&gt;Now scientist finally have answered....&lt;p&gt;New evidence (2014 research) shows there might be a planet ...&lt;p&gt;No explanation of study because you know it actually requires some comprehension...&lt;p&gt;Insert failed attempt at humor...&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment on your thoughts..&lt;p&gt;===========&lt;p&gt;Same script, like 8th grade essay you didn&amp;#x27;t study for, but multiplied by 100x.&lt;p&gt;We knew it was gonna ruin youtube, people told youtube it was gonna ruin it, and now exactly that happened. Click baity videos with nice stock footage that is barely relevant and half assed &amp;#x27;answers&amp;#x27;.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>miniwark</author><text>I have done it a lot for around a year, but i think than the block list is very limited, because after a will the same &amp;quot;blocked&amp;quot; channels come back again in the list. I have now stopped to use this fake feature. I am sure of it because i regularly block official news or music channels, but they appear again anyway after a wile.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the same for the &amp;quot;not interested&amp;quot; feature. I have stop to tell them, when asked, why i am not interested (mainly because i have already see the video). The same already &amp;quot;not interested&amp;quot; videos, already viewed and already liked videos show up again after a wile anyway...</text></item><item><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t recommend channel&amp;quot; option if you click the 3 dots button on a video.&lt;p&gt;I use this liberally for all sorts of reasons and it makes my recommendations much better.</text></item><item><author>philliphaydon</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve probably ruined my recommendations forever now. :(&lt;p&gt;I pretty much only stick to subscriber channels now except for stuff people send me. Since there&amp;#x27;s no dislikes I just don&amp;#x27;t browse the stuff available anymore.&lt;p&gt;YouTube is definitely worse off without the dislike counter.</text></item><item><author>alexb_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve recently heard about this YouTube account named Roel Van De Paar. If you&amp;#x27;ve looked up any error message on YouTube recently, you&amp;#x27;ve probably run into him. Because of the &amp;quot;no dislikes&amp;quot; change, he&amp;#x27;s everywhere now.&lt;p&gt;And by everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE. The account has over 2 million videos. Approximately 0.2% of ALL videos on the ENTIRE platform of YouTube can be attributed to this account, and if you check now they&amp;#x27;ve probably uploaded a few videos in the past couple minutes. The videos are generated crap, ripped from tech forums. Normally you wouldn&amp;#x27;t see it anywhere due to dislikes being easy to spot, but now they pop up all the time in search results due to dislikes becoming a sort of &amp;quot;hidden feature&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Hiding dislikes = less people press dislike (no feedback) = low quality videos are much harder to get rid of in search results. It&amp;#x27;s really, really bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>rasz</author><text>Sounds familiar, my post from 7 months ago:&lt;p&gt;&amp;quot;I would love to see someone look deep into Twitch recommendation system - last time I tested the thing they call &amp;quot;Feedback&amp;quot; is a rolling buffer and wont let you exclude more than ~100 things, adding more simply removed oldest entries and starts spamming you with things you already excluded in the past. This looked like performance optimization (less things to track per user).&amp;quot;</text></comment>
<story><title>No Dislikes has officially ruined YouTube for me</title><text>Spoiler: rant.&lt;p&gt;I don&amp;#x27;t know what happened exactly but I&amp;#x27;m pretty sure it&amp;#x27;s the lack of dislike stats, that now my suggestions and home page of youtube is filled, and I mean FILLEDDD!, with videos that have 4k stock clips, catchy title, but completely lacking in content. Misleading 100%. Not 1, not 2, but like 8&amp;#x2F;10 videos are now garbage stock footage with bs commentary over nothing.&lt;p&gt;Example:&lt;p&gt;Nasa just discovered truth about solar system!?!?!?!&lt;p&gt;Science has progressed a lot in last 100 years....&lt;p&gt;So and so first discovered pluto in 1xxx&lt;p&gt;Mayans used to think balbala...&lt;p&gt;Some historians think....&lt;p&gt;Now scientist finally have answered....&lt;p&gt;New evidence (2014 research) shows there might be a planet ...&lt;p&gt;No explanation of study because you know it actually requires some comprehension...&lt;p&gt;Insert failed attempt at humor...&lt;p&gt;Leave a comment on your thoughts..&lt;p&gt;===========&lt;p&gt;Same script, like 8th grade essay you didn&amp;#x27;t study for, but multiplied by 100x.&lt;p&gt;We knew it was gonna ruin youtube, people told youtube it was gonna ruin it, and now exactly that happened. Click baity videos with nice stock footage that is barely relevant and half assed &amp;#x27;answers&amp;#x27;.</text></story><parent_chain><item><author>miniwark</author><text>I have done it a lot for around a year, but i think than the block list is very limited, because after a will the same &amp;quot;blocked&amp;quot; channels come back again in the list. I have now stopped to use this fake feature. I am sure of it because i regularly block official news or music channels, but they appear again anyway after a wile.&lt;p&gt;It&amp;#x27;s the same for the &amp;quot;not interested&amp;quot; feature. I have stop to tell them, when asked, why i am not interested (mainly because i have already see the video). The same already &amp;quot;not interested&amp;quot; videos, already viewed and already liked videos show up again after a wile anyway...</text></item><item><author>FartyMcFarter</author><text>There&amp;#x27;s a &amp;quot;don&amp;#x27;t recommend channel&amp;quot; option if you click the 3 dots button on a video.&lt;p&gt;I use this liberally for all sorts of reasons and it makes my recommendations much better.</text></item><item><author>philliphaydon</author><text>You&amp;#x27;ve probably ruined my recommendations forever now. :(&lt;p&gt;I pretty much only stick to subscriber channels now except for stuff people send me. Since there&amp;#x27;s no dislikes I just don&amp;#x27;t browse the stuff available anymore.&lt;p&gt;YouTube is definitely worse off without the dislike counter.</text></item><item><author>alexb_</author><text>I&amp;#x27;ve recently heard about this YouTube account named Roel Van De Paar. If you&amp;#x27;ve looked up any error message on YouTube recently, you&amp;#x27;ve probably run into him. Because of the &amp;quot;no dislikes&amp;quot; change, he&amp;#x27;s everywhere now.&lt;p&gt;And by everywhere, I mean EVERYWHERE. The account has over 2 million videos. Approximately 0.2% of ALL videos on the ENTIRE platform of YouTube can be attributed to this account, and if you check now they&amp;#x27;ve probably uploaded a few videos in the past couple minutes. The videos are generated crap, ripped from tech forums. Normally you wouldn&amp;#x27;t see it anywhere due to dislikes being easy to spot, but now they pop up all the time in search results due to dislikes becoming a sort of &amp;quot;hidden feature&amp;quot;.&lt;p&gt;Hiding dislikes = less people press dislike (no feedback) = low quality videos are much harder to get rid of in search results. It&amp;#x27;s really, really bad.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>smaryjerry</author><text>I am convinced the not interested button does absolutely nothing.</text></comment>