Don't disable ratings - Here's why

I didn't know that!
I remember watching this video, and although I was searching for a serious tutorial, it still made me laugh at the time

 

According to that Youtube uses likes/dislikes in its rating alrorithms and enabling them puts your video higher on the search que and thus giving you more views, in your case your video is actually funny so i doubt people would dislike, other than the super uptight ones who cant take a joke

 

Also, when people like the video, it shows up on their subscribers feeds so the video is getting shown to more people there too

 

Quite a while ago, I disabled the ability to rate my most popular videos. You can see my top 25 videos at bottom of this page.

http://socialblade.com/youtube/user/racegrooves/videos

Nowadays, I don't worry about the negatives unless they are really out-pacing the positives. If I believe that somebody is intentionally sabotaging a video, then I will turn off the ratings.

If one can suffer throught the negatives, allowing viewers to give it a thumbs up also winds up allowing them to promote your video if they have such options enabled. In other words, If they like a video, they might also have that auto-publish to their social feeds such as Twitter and Facebook.

Congrats on the growth of your video!

 

Cool dude, thanks for sharing! I always wondered about disabling ratings. I guess YouTube keeps those videos further back in the search results since they don't know what the opinions are on the videos. Or maybe comments/ratings have something to do with the algorithm of search results.