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> IIRC youtube did even get rid of downvotes for a while, as they were mostly used for brigading.

No, they got rid of them most likely because advertisers complained that when they dropped some flop they got negative press from media going "lmao 90% dislike rate on new trailer of <X>".

Stuff disliked to oblivion was either just straight out bad, wrong (in case of just bad tutorials/info) and brigading was very tiny percentage of it.



Oh, didn't they remove the dislike count after people absolutely annihilated one of their yearly rewind with dislikes?


It was removed after some presidential speeches attracted heavy dislikes.


The original sin is argued to be the Youtube Rewind 2018. But it took them until 2021 to roll it out.


well, people annihilated every of their rewinds with dislikes. But yeah, that might've contributed.


YouTube never got rid of downvotes they just hid the count. Channel admins can still see it and it still affects the algorithm




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