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So now we have to read a community note to know a video is garbage instead of just seeing a massive dislike bar and clicking off?

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Didn’t they take away the dislike button?

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The removed the dislike count a couple years ago, so you can no longer see if a video is terrible.

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you can still see that number on smarttube

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“Return YouTube Dislike” extension for Firefox and Chrome.

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The thumbnail and title alone is typically enough to know how garbage it is.

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LOL definitely a real comment by a real person. Dislike bar…

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I don’t see what was wrong with the comment of /u/voyajer. Can you elaborate?

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Yeah, the dislike bar used to be a thing. You could see how many dislikes there were compared to likes, all represented on a line below the two buttons. It was sort of like this image, except imagine the “yes” and “no” as a single line (but retaining their separate colors).

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Wait till you tell him youtube used to have a 5-star rating system

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The dislike bar was real, I’ll tell ya, I’ve lived nigh on eighty years and me own two eyes seent the dislike bar clear as day! Ye better believe, sonny, it’s the truth!

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It was a bar that showed the ratio of likes to dislikes

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So we can explicitly graffiti videos but we can’t add translations. 🤯

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I feel like this is what the comment section is used for.

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Can the channel owner delete comments on their videos?

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Yes, as well as automatically hiding new comments.

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which is unfortunate, i think YT does it to save paid labor on moderating comments, but this allows video posters to upload misleading info and delete correcting replies, which also pairs well with hidden thumbs down

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Re-Enabling the dislike button would help too

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It was removed because Biden got too many downvotes. It’ll be back soon. It was stupid of them to take it away.

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That’s not why it was removed

It was removed not long after one of their Rewind vids was disliked to hell.

And it ain’t coming back, at least they haven’t so much as hinted at it

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Nah, that’s what they told you and you believed. Don’t be a fool for the media. It’s a bad look.

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