YouTube No Longer Shows the Number of Dislike in Videos
YouTube is making considerable changes to the way viewers interact with the services offered by the Alphabet-owned company. From now on, the number of Dislikes in YouTube videos will no longer be visible to viewers.
YouTube has
considered the issue of 'Dislike attacks' as well as other adverse measures
that are irrelevant to the video, as reasons for the change. They realized that
when there was a group of people who didn't like a video for some reason, this
group could target as many Dislike buttons as possible, and this was deemed
irrelevant.
YouTube says it
has been experimenting with many ways to help protect creators' content from
such harmful acts since March. They tried to hide the number of Dislike numbers
from the eyes of the public audience, the result of which was able to reduce
irrelevant Dislike attacks, because the audience no longer targeted dislike
attacks if they could not see the numbers.
The change will
also help protect the content of budding creators, where the average often gets
Dislike numbers, resulting in their Channel development being impacted.
The owner of the
video or content of YouTube creators can still see the actual Dislike numbers
through YouTube Studio. Viewers can also still use the Dislike button if they
do not like the content. On the other hand, YouTube algorithm also still refers
to this dislike number to further improve video recommendations to users. The
only change here is, the number of Dislike numbers will be hidden from the
public.
Hiding the number
of Dislikes on a video will undoubtedly help suppress actions that harm the
content of the creator. However, this policy will have implications that spread
across platforms. Viewers often use the Dislike button to assess whether a
video will be watched again or not, or whether the information in the video is
accurate or not.