Now you can see if users enjoyed a video without having to rate it: YouTube shows two horizontal bars for the number of likes and dislikes. Some might be worried that visitors could be influenced by the existing ratings, but I think they're useful and YouTube should find a way to convert the old ratings to the new rating system.
The reason why YouTube dropped the 5 star rating system was that 5 stars dominated ratings. "Seems like when it comes to ratings it's pretty much all or nothing. Great videos prompt action; anything less prompts indifference. Thus, the ratings system is primarily being used as a seal of approval, not as an editorial indicator of what the community thinks about a video," mentioned a YouTube blog post from 2009.
You should have used a bar or pie chart. This is a terrible way of presenting discrete data!
ReplyDeleteI agree with that guy.
ReplyDeleteI thought @Protector and @Anon were being too harsh, until I looked closer at that chart. Are you saying that No is ranked with a value of 0, and Yes is ranked with a value of 5?
ReplyDeleteSo your distribution is Value,Freq = (0,115), (5,2465)? If so, you really might want to revise or jsut remove this chart. It is so faint I can hardly see it. Also, @Protector is correct, you should never take a discrete variable and represent it as continue, liek that line chart (which has nothing on the x and y axes). Actually you could just take the red and green bars for like, rotate 90 degrees left, reverse flip horizontally, and you'd have a perfect bar chart.
Otherwise, a great idea to get rid of 5 star rating system. I hope we'll continue seeing the graph of increase in usage over time, with highlights for when a video is first posted elsewhere, goes viral, age groups and demographics for where it is most popular. Youtube is great!
Nerd.
ReplyDeleteI believe the chart above the comments(2nd) picture, is showing the way people rated with the 5 star system, people that liked a video went 5, people that didn't, either didn't vote or voted 1
ReplyDeleteCan you see WHO liked or disliked the vids or the comments?
ReplyDeleteAnd now it's gone
ReplyDeleteyep, still the same thumbs up/down, but now you cant see the vote count unless u vote urself.
ReplyDeleteKinda weird this new way
Does it show your name on the likes or dislikes?
ReplyDeletepor que cuando le pongo like a un video
ReplyDeleteno aumenta los likes de ese video
y ya son varios que le dan like y se queda en el mismo numero
por que solo cuando le doy like solo se quedo el mismo
ReplyDeletey tambien mis demas amigos le dan like al video no sube el nunmero de likes
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