Green for Dislikes???

I've also thought about this before too. Dislikes do help with the SEO though so they are actually pretty helpful. My current dislike thing is red so I'm hoping for more dislikes as that'll boost my traffic as weird as that sounds
 
It's growth, you should be kinda happy about the green, more interaction, higher search ranking, more views, more interaction, and so on! :)
 
daniel burgio said:
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...
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They do say that once the haters come then you know you've made it, maybe youtube is just working on this theory :bounce:
 
Ok, the people above already told everything. Dislikes increase is okay :D That only means that you've now reached wider audience and that more people now interact with your content ;p
 
I've heard dislikes actually hurt your video. Youtube supposedly doesnt wanna promote videos that are disliked. Kind of obvious why. And I know the arrow is green because it's showing a positive movement. It's just not positive movement. My phone doesnt wanna do italics...
 
I had no idea that thing was green :o It looks yellowish to me. xD But it's one of those weird-looking yellows..when I tilt the laptop screen it looks more green...so I guess yea..it's actually green.. o.0 Good to know, thanks! :P

I used to think it was kind of funny that it would light up looking positive, but I suppose some interaction is better than no interaction (although I still think I'd prefer no interaction when it comes to dislikes.. =/ ).
 
KatyAdelson said:
I had no idea that thing was green :eek: It looks yellowish to me. xD But it's one of those weird-looking yellows..when I tilt the laptop screen it looks more green...so I guess yea..it's actually green.. o.0 Good to know, thanks! :p

I used to think it was kind of funny that it would light up looking positive, but I suppose some interaction is better than no interaction (although I still think I'd prefer no interaction when it comes to dislikes.. =/ ).
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That's my whole point lol. It's green, but downvotes are a bad thing. And I believe they do in fact hurt your promotion by YouTube.
 
There's that saying, "there's no such thing as bad publicity," but I question it... It is sort of true if your goal is to be controversial like the dear fat people lady, I don't think it worked out so well for the Fine Brothers... o.0

I think lots of dislikes will usually hurt a content creator and set off red flags for the viewers, especially if a video appears "normal" but has a lot of dislikes. However, I think a few dislikes sprinkled throughout everything might actually be a good thing. I'd imagine that dislikes may actually promote viewers who liked the content to actually "like" the video to try to "help" the like/dislike ratio. Perhaps a viewer wouldn't have paid attention to the rating if the video had no dislikes. I've noticed that dislikes tend to encourage likes, which might seem a little odd, but sort of makes sense when I think of my own viewing habits. If I see a video that I thought was good but seems to have a higher number of dislikes than it deserves, I'm more likely to remember to "like" it.
 
daniel burgio said:
That's my whole point lol. It's green, but downvotes are a bad thing. And I believe they do in fact hurt your promotion by YouTube.
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No they don't. A downvote is better than no vote in terms of promotion by algorithms.

The only way they may "hurt" is if viewers look at the dislike bar and stop watching due to it. If the dislikes aren't actually killing watch time, they are serving as a net benefit. A lot of people don't even bother to look at the like/dislike bar until AFTER they've already formed an opinion on the video anyway, so it's rare for them to ever have that sort of effect.
 
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