• ameancow@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The stars used to tell the company if the video was good.

    The stars now tell the company how to tailor a version of reality specifically to what you want to see and feel.

    • RogerMeMore@reddthat.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Oh man, I remember those days when the stars actually meant something! Now they’re just trying to push their own agenda on us.

  • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 months ago

    All I want to say is:

    I rarely like any video so much that I want to give it a solid 👍

    Its also pretty rare for 👎

    But I’ll rate stuff on a scale of ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ every day of the week.

    Also, hiding 👎 is completely brain-dead stupid.

    • lemmydividebyzero@reddthat.comEnglish
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      4 months ago

      Also, hiding 👎 is completely brain-dead stupid.

      I think, it depends on the platform. The reason why many platform don’t show them is the constant negativity simply caused by different opinions.

      40 people agree with your post, 60 don’t agree… I call that pluralism. But showing a -20 for example could motivate the person to delete their post, which leads to echo chambers.

      My Lemmy instance does not show any downvotes by the way and I like it. If one disagrees with me, they can leave a comment.

      • MystikIncarnate@lemmy.caEnglish
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        4 months ago

        You can’t see it, but more people disagree with you than agree with you.

        Just FYI.

        You’re entitled to your opinion, and you like what you like. So don’t worry, be happy.

        • elephantium@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          4 months ago

          For context, when I looked, there were less than 5 votes. So “more people” is really just “a couple of dogs”.

          (Oh, wait, on the Internet, no one is supposed to know you’re a dog)

  • ramble81@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    Anyone else notice that thumbs down is back, there just isn’t a counter. I’ve seen it for a few weeks now.

    • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      4 months ago

      I’m pretty sure it never was different tho I usually use a plugin that shows thumbs-downs. It’s basically guessing for new videos so it’s not really useful but still

      • Tynan@lemmy.mlEnglish
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        4 months ago

        I’m pretty sure it counts the dislikes of the people who also have the extension installed, and extrapolates from that.

      • triple@lemmynsfw.comEnglish
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        4 months ago

        It does. Dislikes are still visible in revanced and probably other 3rd party wrappers. Must still be accessible via API.

    • M137@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      I thought it never left? They just didn’t show the number of dislikes to anyone other than the channel who made the video (without plugins, revanced etc).

    • Bazell@lemmy.zip
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      4 months ago

      I do not know why to use Netflix in the first place if you can simply visit free streaming platforms like HDREZKA, watch a few ads and then enjoy your film. Yeah, ads can be annoying sometimes but, at least, all is free, content doesn’t get removed simply because of it is no longer watched actively and no forced registration. And they also provide some useful features like the personal lists, collections, different sound records, history of publication for series and even the approximate schedule for the upcoming series which is really useful.

  • Galactose@sopuli.xyz
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    4 months ago

    There also used to be a response button of sorts like a review section on playstore. (Or am I remembering things wrong)

  • LanFee@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    4 months ago

    Problem with the stars system is that people with RTL languages use it backwards. So you’ll often get 1 start with a positive feedback.

  • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Corporation does well: brags about all the statistics Corporation does poorly: hides all the statistics and asks customers to trust it that it’s doing well

    Classic corporate transparency. When a filthy corpo says they’re dedicated to something, they’re usually dedicated to the opposite.

  • pulsewidth@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    Next step: you must have a camera enabed to use YouTube so we can directly monitor your facial expressions with AI✨ and save you precious rating time to recommend you better videos!

    But really so we can ensure you’re watching the ads.
    • Zink@programming.dev
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      4 months ago

      I know I am not alone here, because Lemmy and all, but holy god damn does that little AI sparkle trigger me more than any other AI term or image.

  • finitebanjo@lemmy.world
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    4 months ago

    I’m on the fence with the thumbs vs stars. On one hand, a boolean is probably better than an integer for a number of reasons. Another thing to consider is that the five star system can be gamed by only giving 0 or 5 depending on if you believe the content deserves a higher or lower average, meaning people who figure that out have more voting power… which is… better?

    • grindemup@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Doesn’t this apply only if you are looking at mean average exclusively? There are loads of other metrics you can look at based on scalar ratings.

    • DupaCycki@lemmy.world
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      4 months ago

      Unfortunately, a lot of content is still exclusive to YouTube. Every now and then I try to look for the things I watch on Nebula or Odysee, but they’re just not there. Only a handful of channels that mirror their content + some specials on Nebula.

      We can always politely ask our favourite content creators to upload their stuff on other platforms, but the success rate is disappointing.

  • ZoteTheMighty@lemmy.zip
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    4 months ago

    My favorite is Amazon streaming that has a “rating for your taste out of 5 stars”, but they don’t want it to point out that most of their catalog is shit, so everything from Shawshank Redemption to Movie 43 are “4.5 stars for you”

    • Zacryon@feddit.orgEnglish
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      4 months ago

      I disagree. There are a lot of videos that I find just “meh”. I might not regret watching them, but wouldn’t recommend them nor watch again.
      Then there is content which I find pretty good/bad but not extremely good or bad. For such cases a more nuanced scale is better.

      For other users this might be less informative, since they will be seeing just the average anyway and can therefore only determine general perception; except if the distribution is also made available.

      But for a personalized recommendation system I think a nuanced scale can work better.

      From a content creators perspective one can also evaluate better whether there is room for improvement and by “how much”, in case one is interested in such.