w4mmaps

As many of you would have noticed, youtube stopped showing the dislike count for videos, a controversial decision to say the least. What do you think about it?

I know a lot of us used that like/dislike ratio. For example if a video had lots of dislikes to likes, you generally knew it was going to be shit. It was a bit helpful to have that user feedback data.

Anyhow, not sure if anybody else does this weird ass shit, but from the beginning I've been looking at it another way to gauge user feedback. I compare likes to views, and get a basic % of how many people who saw the video liked it. (I don't use calculators and shit i'm just talking about glancing and getting rough idea)

What I'm seeing: 1% likes to views is good.... not mind blowing but good. This is a baseline level. Anything below that 1% starts to get questionable.

Most videos that I watch and find decent are around 1%.


Here's some random examples just looking on youtube now:

snoop dogg - gin and juice 1.25%
johnny depp wins case video - 1.7%
live rescue: helping a veteran - 1.9%
amber heard court testimony vids - 0.2% - 0.6% range
clickbaity bullshit videos - 0.2%-0.4%


Not sure why I'm such a dork even thinking like this, but have found it to be a surprisingly good alternative to the missing dislike button lol... really does give you an interesting gauge.