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Chris Lin's avatar

Great read! Reminds me of this classic xkcd comic: https://xkcd.com/386/ :)

A while back, YouTube removed the ability to see the number of dislikes a video has received; I wonder if they’ve since seen a decrease in engagement since viewers can no longer see how controversial a video is?

Also, I am curious to hear your thoughts on the feasibility of calculating a “consensus score” with an asymmetrical reaction system. In other words, instead of giving users the ability to like/abstain/dislike, you only give them the ability to like/abstain (such as with Instagram), or maybe have a superlike/like/abstain (such as Twitch’s subscribe/follow/abstain system for livestreams). Maybe the tighter spread of values in these asymmetrical reaction systems is not wide enough to estimate consensus?

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Nathan Tacha's avatar

I would love to see this on reddit!

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