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Thumbs up clicker for youtube11/1/2022 ![]() ![]() I generally try to be a very positive person and understanding of differences but this video stood out to me as something so entirely negative that it was worth a down voted. Today I actually down voted something for the first time in my life. And I guess that’s one way to know you’ve made it? Maybe? □ Reply I figure those people just have ‘haters’. There are some people who seem to post a video and there’s just an immediate Thumbs Down. Maybe some of them are just ‘fat fingering’ the rating because they’re close. I think it helps that I’m realistic in my assessment of my own ability. ![]() Or if some organized protest or another decided someone did something awful, you’d see them get flooded with Thumbs Downs. You’d see those videos get flooded with Thumbs Down. If a publisher did something heinous like ridiculous crunch or firing someone who left work during crunch to attend the birth of their child. I started watching YouTube as a consumer of video games. A sort of ‘middle finger’ to this creator you don’t like. I always associated it with a means by which of ‘sticking it to’ the creator of the video. You know, I don’t think I’ve ever hit the Thumbs Down button ever. I don’t think I ever thumbed-down a rules video, but if it contains major errors (or falls into one of the mentioned categories), I could imagine doing it. – x-isms in content that is clearly not satirical (racism, sexism, etc.) – clickbaity title and then the question is not answered or hidden in a lot of junk (ok, usually I avoid those initially, but sometimes it happens) – advertisement disguised as editorial content very bad sound disturbing camera movement or cuts) I thumb down – bad production occasional field recordings or mobile streaming is fine, but if the message suffers (e.g. – for board game reviews: non-well articulated criticism/praise or very heavily biased reviews I thumb down when I feel that a video does not deliver what it promised, if it’s done badly, I feel betrayed, or in general if I consider it a “bad service”. no vote) on most board game reviewer content I tend to thumb up reviews that I disagree with but that are well articulated and that give me valuable insights. I do not thumb down based on whether I agree with the opinion expressed in the video or not. If you ever click “thumbs down” on a YouTube video, what motivates you to do that (instead of simply not watching the video, doing nothing, or leaving a comment)? I’m genuinely curious–maybe there’s something I’m missing here. For that reason, I almost wish there was a button that meant, “I respectfully disagree, but I appreciate you taking the time for sharing your opinion.” Perhaps that’s how some people use the thumbs-down button. There are certainly videos I didn’t enjoy and videos I disagreed with, but for videos that would offend me to the point that I’d feel justified in thumbs downing them, I wouldn’t seek them out to watch in the first place.Ī big part of it, of course, is that I create content–on YouTube and otherwise–and while I don’t always agree with other people, I respect the time they put into creating their content. I honestly don’t think I’ve ever clicked the thumbs down button on a YouTube video. Were those people trying to say that the video wasn’t effective at teaching the rules?. Like, I was just watching a rules video for a game. Have you ever pressed the “thumbs down” button on a YouTube video?Įvery now and then I happen to glance at the thumbs up/thumbs down ratios on random videos I’m watching, and I’m almost always surprised to see some number of thumbs down, even on videos that aren’t in the least controversial. ![]()
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