Green for Dislikes???

[daniel burgio]

Anyone else notice or find it funny how when you check analytics, the increase in dislikes gets a green arrow just like the number of likes or watch time? Like, really, Youtube? That's not something that should be green. Unless you're a sadomasochist. I think they need to fix that. It's kind of insulting. "Hey, the number of dislikes went up by 4 this month. Good job!" Thanks, Youtube...

 

[NoDragonsPlz]

It's just based on their overall algorithm for putting something up or down. Green is used in most metrics to see an increase as its seen as a positive color.

 

[Jawad Soomro]

Yeah I used to think EXACTLY like this. But UP arrow indicates the growth and down arrow indicates declination. I also feel weird that YOUTUBE is happy that I got dislikes by making it GREEN lol.

 

[Uncivilized Elk]

Dislikes count as interaction, and are better than nothing in terms of activity.

Therefore, dislikes are a part of growth.
There's nothing strange about growth being shown in green.

Besides, the vast majority of the time likes and dislikes are absolutely useless anyway as far as being a measure of anything.

 

[Gaijillionaire]

I've always felt it as if you get a dislike you hit a nerve of jealousy in having a good video or idea that some one without talent got mad. Oooh dislike! That'll show this guy!! So it's not all bad

 

[Uncivilized Elk]

I've always felt it as if you get a dislike you hit a nerve of jealousy in having a good video or idea that some one without talent got mad. Oooh dislike! That'll show this guy!! So it's not all bad

That's a tad presumptions though, isn't it? What if somebody just legitimately thinks your content is garbage? There's plenty of those sorts of people too.

 

[coliwob]

Dislikes are still engagement though. And not always bad - being ignored is bad, low retention and nobody liking, disliking, commenting etc. At least if you get a dislike people have payed enough attention to disagree with you. It doesn't mean you are bad or crap or anything. I don't think a lot of people actually dislike for that reason.

 

[TheSwedishTraveler]

Dislikes count as interaction, and are better than nothing in terms of activity.

Therefore, dislikes are a part of growth.
There's nothing strange about growth being shown in green.

Besides, the vast majority of the time likes and dislikes are absolutely useless anyway as far as being a measure of anything.

That´s true, that someone bothered to watch it and made an opinion to dislike it.

 

[Gaijillionaire]

That's a tad presumptions though, isn't it? What if somebody just legitimately thinks your content is garbage? There's plenty of those sorts of people too.

Well if something is all dislikes then maybe so. But one dis out of 10-20 likes gives me that feeling

 

[JesusGreen]

Well as far as the YouTube algorithm goes, dislikes *are* positive growth, and are essentially for all intents and purposes no different from likes. The only thing bad about dislikes really is that other people can see them and perhaps make judgements on the quality of your content based on them - along with however you might feel about them personally. As far as the algorithm sees it, it's just another interaction (like likes, comments, etc) and actually helps your SEO.

YouTube follows the age old media principle of "if it's controversial, it'll do well" - that can be good controversial, or bad controversial. You can have a video that's purely like 30,000 dislikes and YouTube will treat it the same as if it had 30,000 likes, because it's still 30,000 people who felt compelled enough to interact with the video and stay on the site a little longer.