The comment dislike button.
We all know its there, but have you ever wondered if it actually does anything?
Unlike comment likes, comment dislikes don’t show up.
Well, it turns out…when you dislike a comment, something happens, and frankly, it might surprise
you.
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I’m charlotte dobre and I wanna know, have you ever disliked a comment?
How bout a youtube video?
How about one of our videos?
Don’t lie I know you disliked, but hey, you can make it up to me by giving this video
a thumbs up and by subscribing for more daily trending news commentary.
I personally have never disliked anything on youtube.
That includes videos and comments.
And I honestly pride myself on saying that.
If I don’t like a comment, I keep scrolling, I don’t actively put negative energy out
in the world because I believe in karma.
But I have to admit, I have wondered what the comment dislike button is even for.
Likes on a comment show up on youtube, the dislikes don’t.
We all know that disliking a video does affect the video, but not in the way you might think.
Unless a video is disliked a lot, like I mean a lot like thousands, it wont affect the video.
Dislikes are still engagement, comments are still engagement, so even if you are rapidly
disliking or writing negative comments, you are still helping that youtuber gain views
and put money in their pocket.
Sure, it might be kind of embarrassing for a creator to have a lot of dislikes on their
video.
It does look bad.
But Truthfully, the best thing you can do if you dislike a youtuber is stop clicking
on their videos and stop increasing their engagement.
Youtube doesn’t differentiate between likes and dislikes, youtube only cares about interaction.
So what about comment dislikes?
Unlike a video dislikes, the number of dislikes on a comment does not show up.
So it makes you kind of wonder if there is really a point to having the dislike button
on youtube comments.
On reddit, you can upvote and downvote a post or comment so that the overall likes goes
up or down, and that affects how high up on feed it is.
The more upvotes, the more likely a post or comment will be seen.
But a youtube comment dislike does not work like that, at least, not anymore.
Before google plus, youtube comment dislikes worked the same way as reddit downvotes.
But that’s not the case anymore.
And at first glance, it seems like there is absolutely no use for the comment dislike
button.
Its just there.
You dislike a comment, and the dislike button turns blue on that comment for you.
But it doesn’t show up to other people.
And some people even report that if you refresh the page, your dislike can actually be removed.
But according to the youtube channel The Tekkit realm, who actually looked at the coding for
the youtube comment dislike button, it does affect the comments ranking.
There is a built in function for the comment dislike button
It wont affect the comment in particular, but it will affect the whole comment section.
By disliking a youtube comment, users can resort the high ranking comments.
Disliking a comment does affect the comment section itself, but it does absolutely nothing
to the user who makes the comment.
And that’s largely because the dislikes on any particular comment do not show up.
I think if you wrote a comment and 1000 people disliked it, that would make you feel pretty
bad about yourself.
Hell, when I post a video and it gets a thousand dislikes, it does urk me a little bit.
This could be a way for youtube to protect users who use the site and encourage engagement.
If a user is disheartened by writing a comment because one of their previous comments was
disliked by a whole slough of people, they might be far less inclined to write another
comment.
I mean I personally feel like mean comments are a lot meaner than dislikes but anyway,
you get my point.
According to an official blog post from july 27 of 2015, youtube said.
First off, we’ve improved the ranking system that reduces the visibility of junk comments.
Its working,t he rate of dislikes on comments has dropped by more than 35 percent across
youtube.
But this also means that youtube is keeping track of the comment dislikes.
So guys, are you surprised by this?
Are you not?
Are you going to go dislike every comment in our comment section to see if rearranging
the comments actually works?
Let me know, for now, its time to do some comment features.
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