Do dislikes count against you in any way?

Merlina Rodas

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Hey guys, so I got a few dislikes on some of my videos and I'm wondering, how does this affect my channel if at all? Does getting dislikes give you a lower overall rating or put you lower on youtube's search ranking, or does it just count as "interaction" on the channel?
 

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I have never seen anything documented from Youtube on whether or not they count for you or against you, but this much we know - Youtube never does anything that can be 'gamed' in your favor or against your competitors, so by that logic, they probably don't count against you.
 
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In my experiance - My videos with the most dislikes are also my most viewed videos.
My most viewd video (Over 9m views) has 20k likes and 7k dislikes. Thats quite a bad ratio as most of my vids are 95% like ratio. (But are also just in the few thousands of views)
So dont worry about dislikes - treat all types of interation as positive.
 

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This is good for PR. When I started it I was a bit shocked. But now I know for sure that it's not bad and it helps a lot. Video is not a bill that everyone likes. This shows the reaction of viewers, even a bad reaction will be counted. Haters :) .. dislikes:) ... as many as you like. :) YouTube counts views. Go to your goal and do not stop
 

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I specifically asked this at the last YouTube Creator Day I went to, and the reps there said that likes and dislikes are pretty much there only for viewers to express their opinions about the video in a quick and text-free way. They don't affect the algorithm other than being counted as having someone interact with your video. Mostly, it's a gauge for other viewers to see how many people reacted positively and negatively to a video.
 

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I specifically asked this at the last YouTube Creator Day I went to, and the reps there said that likes and dislikes are pretty much there only for viewers to express their opinions about the video in a quick and text-free way. They don't affect the algorithm other than being counted as having someone interact with your video. Mostly, it's a gauge for other viewers to see how many people reacted positively and negatively to a video.
Thanks, that's interesting news!
 
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I specifically asked this at the last YouTube Creator Day I went to, and the reps there said that likes and dislikes are pretty much there only for viewers to express their opinions about the video in a quick and text-free way. They don't affect the algorithm other than being counted as having someone interact with your video. Mostly, it's a gauge for other viewers to see how many people reacted positively and negatively to a video.
Nowadays whenever I see a badly-produced video, I'd just abandon it because disliking it would somewhat rank it "higher".

I've seen that many times on the first page results.
 

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In addition to what others have said here, dislikes let the viewer know if a video is misleading or click-baity. But by then you've already clicked on it!