When you remove the value of dislikes, it also removes the value of likes to users.
this post was submitted on 26 Jun 2026
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I remember Reddit used to have the ability to show both upvote and downvotes. I miss that feature.
YouTube could only envy Pornhub.
Pornhub has way better content
Any service only cares about engagement so the dislike was never really useful because the core of engagement is rage bait. The only way to truly downvote content is to not engage with it whatsoever. Ex. The only way to dislike Instagram is to not use the platform
Yes! I'm not on insta or TikTok, but people will share horrible things like "can you believe they said this?" And yes, quite frankly I can because here you are commenting on it and sharing it. It's like people don't understand the concept of engagement. If someone has a video abusing their child, just report the video and potentially send it to the authorities if needed. Don't comment and share the video!
The problem is that sometimes you can't know whether the content is worth engaging until you view it. At least YouTube shorts still have the "Don't recommend channel" option.
True but one can mitigate engagement. View < comment < like < share < follow and so on (not exactly sure of the order but you get the idea). Maybe the best would be to block the account after following or report the content, that is short of leaving the platform all together.
Name something more useless than the dislike button in comments
You see them on SmarTube. But I imagine, like most voting on the internet, it snowballs from whatever tilt it initially showed. People be herds like that. They'll dislike or disagree with something, but change that opinion once they see what "most" others think at that time. Even if it's 2 Likes and 1 Dislike.
And that is a fantastic pathway for engagement and ad revenue. "Markets" or market segmentation, are just our fancy terms for herds.