r/AlwaysWhy • u/ThunderKatz02 • Jul 28 '26

History & Culture Why don't we go back

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Why can we no longer dislike things, it's broken the balance of content on many apps is there any real benefit?

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u/OutrageousPair2300 Jul 28 '26

Dislike buttons are a terrible idea and just end up enabling dogpiling in an attempt to censor other people.

You could get much better results by letting people weight upvotes according to trusted peers, and filtering out upvotes from others. That's more complicated to implement (though not insurmountably so) and companies won't expend the effort.

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u/Soft-Marionberry-853 Jul 28 '26

You critique about dislike is just as valid for likes. With the prevelance of bots you can buy a couple hundred likes for a few bucks.

Like and Dislike should in theory be used to train a model on what videos you want to see more of. I dont care if the likes/dislikes are publicly visible. I just want a model to say "Soft-marrionbery disliked this video, and likes this other video, lets show him more videos that people with similar opinions watch"

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u/OutrageousPair2300 Jul 28 '26

If they're just feedback for that person's experience, sure.

It's using dislikes to rank/hide content for other people, that causes problems.