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notenoughbeans on June 14, 2019 | parent | context | favorite | on: YouTube’s Algorithm Incentivizes the Wrong Behavio...

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.

lstamour on June 14, 2019 [–]

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.

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