{"id":32051,"date":"2021-04-02T16:47:28","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T20:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=32051"},"modified":"2021-04-02T16:47:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T20:47:28","slug":"youtube-testing-removal-of-dislike-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/02\/youtube-testing-removal-of-dislike-count\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube Testing Removal of Dislike Count"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube\/status\/1376942486594150405\">YouTube<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=26653200\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/YouTube\/status\/1376942486594150405\"><p>In response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we&rsquo;re testing a few new designs that don&rsquo;t show the public dislike count.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>This seems like a bad idea, as dislikes were a good, quick indicator that a video might be misleading or at least controversial.<\/p>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/17\/netflix-to-replace-star-ratings-with-thumbs-updown\/\">Netflix to Replace Star Ratings With Thumbs Up\/Down<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube (via Hacker News): In response to creator feedback around well-being and targeted dislike campaigns, we&rsquo;re testing a few new designs that don&rsquo;t show the public dislike count. This seems like a bad idea, as dislikes were a good, quick indicator that a video might be misleading or at least controversial. Previously: Netflix to Replace [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2021-04-02T20:47:31Z","apple_news_api_id":"74babd69-ffe9-4741-8dd8-85267c27f988","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2021-04-02T20:47:32Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AdLq9af_pR0GN2IUmfCf5iA","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[96,555],"class_list":["post-32051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-web","tag-youtube"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32051"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32052,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32051\/revisions\/32052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}