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Wouldn't want anyone to know (media.piefed.world)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/memes@lemmy.world
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[–] 148 points 10 months ago (10 children)

It's so dumb. Just let people rate it with the five stars. They're so gun-ho with the algorithm let it do its job.

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  • [–] 128 points 10 months ago (4 children)

    They don't want you knowing what other people think of the video. It's just about what you think of the video. Much easier to have an algorithmically perfect echo chamber if everyone is privately rating things and has no idea what others think about them.

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  • [–] 5 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    Wouldn't the simplest solution be to only expose the other ratings after you rate?

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  • [–] 10 points 10 months ago

    Well it isn't beneficial for the company because people might realize they hold unpopular opinions and the company wants to be able to control the people's opinions regardless of popularity, that way they can keep users on the site engaging with that content for longer.

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  • [–] 13 points 10 months ago (2 children)

    I'm pretty sure that 99% of the time 1 and 5 stars options were used, so like/dislike is enough. There isn't much point in including a "I have no strong feelings one way or another" button.

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  • [–] 6 points 10 months ago (1 child)

    Sure there is: A known quantity is always better than an unknown quantity. Though would be far more informative if rating was mandatory, or otherwise defaulted to 3 stars or some such.

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  • [–] 0 points 10 months ago

    Then just assume that video that hasn't been interacted with is 3 stars, same result. I could see there being an additional like above regular one, like love our something. But YT now kinda has the hype feature which I suppose does a similar job.

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