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I feel completely opposite about this. I have never (and I mean never) viewed the dislikes as an indicator of the quality of the video, or it’s content. It’s only ever been a number that some arbitrary set of people have incremented. To me the video’s quality is self evident, pretty quickly.

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Have you ever done a DIY project around the house? There is a lot of trash out there, and the dislike to like ratio is a great way to quickly parse out the crap without 1) reading bottom barrel youtube comments or 2) watching 22 minutes of nonsense at 1.75x speed.

Not to mention the multitude of unsafe practices by inexperienced DIY youtubers, that are more often than not highlighted (and easily visible), in the like/dislike ratio.

Regardless of how you interpret it, they're providing less information

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