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>>furcyd+(OP)
It's not complicated.

They need to stop showing people the upvote and view COUNTS. Behind the scenes they can still use it to make recommendations.

Those numbers are pseudo signals of quality to people who encounter content they have never encountered before.

Even when they have doubts that are watching something unhealthy the mind goes "well if the rest of the world thinks this dumbass is important I better pay attention..."

If a dumbass hurting people on video gets 10 million views other dumbasses worldwide automatically get triggered looking at the count. "hey I can do this maybe I should run for President..."

Remove the counts and you remove the pseudo signal of quality.

>>kodz4+Dl
That only works for a specific usecase. I've been looking at videos on how to drywall. Views and upvotes helped me find the most useful instructionals and skip the bad ones.

>>noteno+Lq
I often find the upvote to downvote ratio to be a higher sign of quality than purely the number of upvotes. If they showed me the ratio, I still might get the same value from it.

>>lstamo+gr
The ratio is important too, but the vote count is important.

I interpret 4 upvotes and 1 downvote much differently than 4000 upvotes and 1000 downvotes.

>>noteno+Yr
While I agree there isn’t much signal in 1:1 and 4:1, it’s been my experience that if a video gets a downvote that quickly, it probably isn’t as good as a video only attracting upvotes for educational, howto or technical content.