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.
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.
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.
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.
Look! It’s a sparkle! Nothing bad could be related to that at all!
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.
The stars used to tell the company if you thought the video quality was good.
The stars now tell the company how to tailor a version of reality specifically to what you want to see and feel.
“Amy Schumer isn’t hated by Netflix users. It’s the star system that’s wrong. “
Not so much. It’s more like “Is there enough Nettlix users that likes Amy Schumer so that we can finance her next special”.
Corpos only care about what you like so that they can maximize their profit.
Funny enough the dislike button is there but hidden. You can get extensions that show the thumbs down button and how many clicked it.
I’ve wondered about those. I always assumed they’d just show the down votes by others with the same extension.
Yes but extrapolated
5 star rating are actually 4 star ratings with a free 20% boost.
Hate it. Gave my employer a bad review, 1-2 stars in most categories, and the average was still a 3.7?? I have to adjust my intuition when reading star reviews. Apparently 3.5 is bottom of the barrel.
I don’t understand, are you inferring the reviews do not accurately represent the results?
I don’t think 3.7 stars accurately describes my experience in that company, yes. But that means that the meaning I gave to what 3.7 stars feels like is not what the company feels like, mostly because my ‘lowest’ would be 0 stars. In my world, 2.5 stars is 50% - but crucially it’s not, 3 stars is 50%. That’s why I have to recalibrate my feelings of the star system.
The like/dislike system is better than stars IMO.
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.
What about a trinary system? Like, dislike, and meh?
Quaternary Like, dislike, meh, “what in tarnation?”
I like the quinternary system like a strong dislike, a dislike, a meh, a like, a love.
Nah, make 'em in the rank of a country old man from Texas would rank it
They just hiding performance metrics because they know it affects viewing habits, right?
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?
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.
TBH, people often dislike bombed videos some pundit “disproved” it for them.
I get the first step. You don’t watch a video and have the urge to tell the world that it was neither good nor bad. I think they moved to stars because everyone just gave 1 or 5 eitherway
Yeah, that’s not definitely not on YouTube, the final ‘star score’ was effectively indicative only of the ratio of the 5-stars to the 1-stars. The infinitesimal minority that would actually thoughtfully rate 2, 3, or 4 stars made no difference at all.
I blame Netflix for starting this shit, and I blame everyone who subscribes to them for allowing it.
Every video that I ever saw with a like:dislike ratio like the one in frame 2 was being brigaded for reasons unrelated to video quality.
When Blizzard said “Do You Guys Not Have Phones?” the problem was obviously not the quality of the video presented, it was the topic at hand and made perfect sense to have all the dislikes. It makes no sense to take that away from users.
I mean, was it even supposed to be related to quality? If I dislike the content of a video I’m going to hit dislike even if it’s well made.
But yeah, I guess the ratios were usually from brigading.
