My own rant disengaged. But as far as I know, creators can still see their downvotes. But if they can't, how are they supposed to know if they are tee-ing off their viewers?
Creators can still see our own downvote counters on our own videos, but it's of little use when the tool has been adulterated. Will people stop using the feature because they feel there's no point in it? Will people overuse the feature out of spite? Who knows? It's bad enough already that most people who vote will _never_ comment, so you never actually know what you did right or wrong, you have to divine it from the rest of your data to get an idea as it is. That says nothing of the damage it does to the community at large by artificially boosting "bad" videos. I have a neutral response to this general example, but "Rebecca Black - Friday" has long been a meme because of the monster ratio that video has. 4 million down vs. 1.3 up. Now it just looks like an awesome video with 1.3 million upvotes. In that case, it doesn't really matter, but what if it's a more important topic like CPR or DIY roof safety or something with real world consequences? Above all, I still haven't seen anyone who favors the dislike counter going away. _Everyone_ on all sides hates it. The only people who like it are Google.
@@TheBrokenTech Wow, I forgot all about that Friday video. That's the thing, people will forget, just like they forget youtube used to have the star rating. Forgetting is the whole point. Noticing is a crime in 2021.
The comments on the Friday video these days are pretty priceless. It's getting a great second wind because of this, so, a small silver lining at least. I haven't checked the other usual suspects, but I bet they're hilarious too. There are way too many armchair historians out there making videos like this one for everything to simply evaporate. I have a personal soft spot for Neutral Response because I really do think it's a remarkable achievement, so that's where I'm leaving my mark. There has got to be boatloads of videos about Friday, Ghostbusters, politicians, etc already. I also don't see RU-vid being the only game in town forever. They can't keep breaking their own platform and expect the audience to put up with it eternally. No one wanted this.
@@TheBrokenTech I used to think that too. But it's wrong. At one point, probably 95% of the people I subscribed to were kicked off youtube. All of their videos are gone. If they are still around, they are in out of the way places like gab or bitchute. Most of it is not backed up anywhere, mostly because so few people saw it coming, especially on youtube. RU-vid was a strong place for the people I am talking about. RU-vid hired the ADL to be their Orwellian named "Trust and Safety Counsel" They also control twitter. I got kicked off Twitter for mentioning the name Leo Frank. My account will auto-delete any comment containing any of many scores of words, words other people can post.
As far as I understand it, Rumble is the popular alternative today. Personally, I have external backups of every video I've ever made and I've considered uploading to Rumble just to support the competition... and I may. Either way, making unpopular decisions will eventually cost RU-vid business. As I understand it, RU-vid is a huge amount of revenue for Google, but not a huge amount of profit.
