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Comment by nothrowaways | Hacker News Reader

If YouTube removes dislike YouTube should also remove likes. Otherwise it will be misleading the community. Imagine you got 11M dislike and 10K likes. Without without likes obviously people will be mislead.

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Why do people hit Like anyways? Enjoy the content, leave a comment. If the creator actually reads comments, a positive comment in lieu of a Like will have much more benefit to the creater. Except maybe for what ever ulterior algo purposes YT has for these metrics.

I hit like to signal to other viewers (not the creator) that I think the content is good.

Why is your opinon important to other viewers, or why do you think your opinion is relevant to others?

this is my thing about social media in general. i don't mean for this to sound attacking, but more of an open discussion. i'm also not a big fan of "ratings" which is essentially what the likes/dislikes/views ratios equate.

You are in a social media website

where's the media? it may be social, but not media

Video is a media format

Do you mean text is not part of 'media'?

"Whatch you readin for?

What am I reading for? Hell I haven't been asked that before" --Bill Hicks

No, print is dead. So sayeth social media

Social media doesn't literally mean "a place where media exists that can be social." It's much more than that.

Neither HN or YT are social media.

HN is not a social media website. Try again. YT is also not a social media website. In case you meant that.

Old comment got flagged inappropriately. Please don't abuse the flag action.

I use the Like button because it adds the video into the private "Liked" playlist. Handy, one click, good workflow.

Well not really. If a system does not have dislikes then people will find other metrics to evaluate what's good.

For example Likes/Views ratio.

If a video has 1M views but 1000 likes I can most likely ignore it

If a video has 1500 views but 1000 likes now that's something I should be looking at

If the ratio was this high, I would assume it has been artificially inflated.

I'm pretty sure that's the point.

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