So more virtue signal crap. Got it.
this post was submitted on 17 Jun 2024
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Doesn't the quagmire currently known as the website formerly known as Twitter already have this feature? Sounds like Y'tube is late to the party.
I mean, if this is basically Twitter's Community Notes feature, but for YouTube, I'm all for it. Bit of a balancing act, but it's the last thing that hasn't been completely wrecked now that Twitter became Xitter.
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This sounds like a great spot for scammers to flood for maximum visabilty. It'll be too much effort to moderate, so creators will just disable them (if they can) or this will be shut down in about (checks YouTube's history of dealling with scammers) 3.5 years.
lol, considering the “quality” content in the comments section it’s just going to be a continuation of that dumpster fire.
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Thanks bruh, if I had the patience to deal with ads maybe I’d watch YouTube.
Didn't they take away crowd-sourced subtitles before?
Damn I miss those. Nowadays it's really hard to find a video that's in another language and has subtitles. The only subtitles you will find are the automatically-generated ones, which suck
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That’s not going to go wrong at all.
Time to scrape notes data for ai
I miss when Youtube had community sourced subtitles and those little annotations on the video...
This is just for training AI.
Hopefully it's on by default and works like the old pop-up-video messages over the video. It should play a sound every time one pops up and then a bubble popping sound when you click on it to close it.
Re-Enabling the dislike button would help too
I agree but there's also an add-on for that
Yeah but it's not that accurate, and it leaves most normal mobile users out of the picture. I know YouTube knew exactly what they were doing when they removed dislikes, but it still seems absolutely insane to remove such a useful tool for sifting through the bullshit.
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So now we have to read a community note to know a video is garbage instead of just seeing a massive dislike bar and clicking off?
Didn't they take away the dislike button?
The removed the dislike count a couple years ago, so you can no longer see if a video is terrible.
you can still see that number on smarttube
"Return YouTube Dislike" extension for Firefox and Chrome.
Works surprisingly well even after all this time. I often forget its been removed.
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The thumbnail and title alone is typically enough to know how garbage it is.
I give this about two weeks before they realize that it's as effective at helping their advertising as having dislike buttons are.
I am not condoning poisoning of this well of information, but I will laugh my ass off when it inevitably occurs.
It really is unfortunate as it COULD be a really good feature if it were being implemented by someone who wasn't just trying to crowdsource AI training data that will go into commercial products without compensation to anyone. It could be a great tool for professionals and experts to expand on what creators say, a way to call out falsehoods and Hypocrites, and a way to find your people in a world that is growing ever bleaker. But no, it is just being done to force more ads down our throats and harvest more money from us.
I condone poisoning this feature with false info. maybe it will teach them that the dislikes should be public again. using an extension is cool and all, but so many people still don't know about it.
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It's our duty to describe all videos as pizza glue recipes.