Tricking users into watching low-quality content on YouTube seems like such an obviously bad strategy it would pierce through even a few layers of corporate madness. Their reasoning is in all likelihood different.
My first thought is that the reason is to take the incentive away from "dislike" trolls. I reasoned that trolls got some pleasure out of seeing that ratio being skewed and it would encourage them to continue disliking videos.
why would youtube care what the dislike trolls do or what gives these "dislike trolls" pleasure? I would think that youtube's business model would not include any plan to determine what gives "dislike trolls" pleasure
They already said but people are allergic to knowing what they're talking about.
They didn't remove the dislike button, they removed the count.
They removed the count because they found it reduced spurious usage.
That way they can use the dislike count for their algorithm ( and you can still use it for curating your content) without having it influenced by brigading.
I mean they still show it to creators anyways, so I don't get what the weird conspiracies are. Like this is such a nothing of an issue it's insane.
Imo, people get endorphine hit from hitting dislike and feeling like they publically revenged. You are taking that away.
There are of course also arguments there and back. But the emotional reactions are either about interests or feelings. More likely to be feelings here.
Hmm, I wonder if a campaign to tell everyone to go and dislike every video they watch would gain traction. The same way Google destroyed this metric for viewers, it would destroy the usefulness for creators.
Act of petty revenge for sure, and they'll probably remove you from their fiefdom for being a troll.
