Does disabling ratings make you look bad?

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I think yes, it does make a video look bad, but if it's gotta be done, it's gotta be done... I suggest you just comment on the video with something like 'Ratings have been disabled due to thumb gnomes' ^_^
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Chef Kendra said:
I totally disagree with this, Shane. Everything isn't about some bot. Sometimes people are working hard and they are sick and tired of being trolled. Everything isn't always black and white..then again maybe that's how it is with gaming channels. I don't know. I turned off my thumbs because I'm sick of getting trolled. I put up a video of a recipe and 15 seconds latter I got a thumbs down. Did they try the recipe that fast?

I don't want to look on my site and see that crap after I've just spent money on ingredient, moving the camera around 12 times while trying to cook, editing for two hours, researching and testing recipes that are not only easy but tasty, going over to the blog and typing out the recipe, taking a bunch of photos of the food after I've prepared it,voicing over the thing until it sounds decent. While also working a real job in a hot kitchen.

All for 15 seconds after I upload someone to thumbs down me without even a seconds thought. If they don't like my videos, then move along nothing to see here. But as long as I have the option to turn them off no one is going to thumbs down me for my hard work. You don't like my food leave me a comment, my lighting sucks, leave me a comment, my volume is too high, leave me a comment. Tell me why with a comment or get the heck out of here. And that my friend, doesn't have anything to do with a bot.

I turned them off last week and have never felt better.
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I agree with you, but I think what you call "trolling" is incorrect. On the internet, trolling has become synonymous with "hater" or "a--hole". I don't think that that's a troll really is. A troll is somebody who pulls sort of a practical joke on somebody, similar to what MinnesotaBurns does on Xbox Live. If that constitutes him being an "a--hole" so be it. That's completely objective. But being a hater, I don't think so. There is never ever any beef between him and the person he is trolling.

I completely agree with you on the basis that dislikes usually have nothing to do with botting.
 
Frankie Turner said:
I don't mind thumb gnomes, and am not upset or offended by them. Everyone has them, as we know.

But I have noticed that the thumbs always appear at particular times. Usually after a disagreement with someone, however calm, however heated. Not always, sometimes they just pop up genuinely, but once in a while I'll get thumbs down on a whole batch all at once. This will continue for a while and then I'll usually lose a sub and this will stop.

The more views and subs I'm getting, I'm noticing the more thumbs down I am getting. I know my vids are generally good (or I'd have a lot less likes), but there's a whole tirade against female gamers on YouTube which means that just by being on there I am 'asking for it'.

I mean thanks for the view and all but.... well, f*ck off if you're not actually gonna watch the vid, you know?

Anyway. IS it a bad idea to disable ratings? I'm not overly fussed about thumbs. It's views, comments and my subs that matter to me. But I worry because usually the videos that have ratings disabled are usually really, really disliked and may automatically make people think 'well this must be rubbish'.

TL:DR - I'm rambling. But, is disabling ratings a good/bad idea? What are your thoughts?
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I would say that you could make a video saying why you don't care about how people rate the video and that haters just motivate you pump out more videos and make your content better. I'd say, just approach the problem head on.
 
kkushalbeatzz said:
I would say that you could make a video saying why you don't care about how people rate the video and that haters just motivate you pump out more videos and make your content better. I'd say, just approach the problem head on.
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I find such an attitude makes the 'haters' act up even more. I have decided either ignoring it entirely, or disabling ratings is the best option. Avoid feeding the trolls, etc.
 
Personally, I am less likely to watch the video if they are disabled, because usually people disable them because of so many dislikes, for you Frankie, I'd leave them up, because people KNOW if your popular you will have dislikes, when ever I see like nine likes and one or two dislikes, I'm like, "Oh, nine likes, and zero dislikes. K k, lets watch dis"
 
Frankie Turner said:
I find such an attitude makes the 'haters' act up even more. I have decided either ignoring it entirely, or disabling ratings is the best option. Avoid feeding the trolls, etc.
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Well honestly, at some point your gonna have to address them...So I would say if your gonna disable ratings thats your choice! But I would advise to at LEAST do your subs a favor and let them know in advance by either making a post or a video about it! :)
 
Chef Kendra said:
I totally disagree with this, Shane. Everything isn't about some bot. Sometimes people are working hard and they are sick and tired of being trolled. Everything isn't always black and white..then again maybe that's how it is with gaming channels. I don't know. I turned off my thumbs because I'm sick of getting trolled. I put up a video of a recipe and 15 seconds latter I got a thumbs down. Did they try the recipe that fast?

I don't want to look on my site and see that crap after I've just spent money on ingredient, moving the camera around 12 times while trying to cook, editing for two hours, researching and testing recipes that are not only easy but tasty, going over to the blog and typing out the recipe, taking a bunch of photos of the food after I've prepared it,voicing over the thing until it sounds decent. While also working a real job in a hot kitchen.

All for 15 seconds after I upload someone to thumbs down me without even a seconds thought. If they don't like my videos, then move along nothing to see here. But as long as I have the option to turn them off no one is going to thumbs down me for my hard work. You don't like my food leave me a comment, my lighting sucks, leave me a comment, my volume is too high, leave me a comment. Tell me why with a comment or get the heck out of here. And that my friend, doesn't have anything to do with a bot.

I turned them off last week and have never felt better.
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Well I just wanted you to know your videos are really great. When your dislike haters move on you should re-enable ratings again.
 
If i see things like rating/comments disabled i usuall think 1 of 2 things

1. the uploader must have gotten a lot of flaming in the video so in order to not make themselves look bad they just disabled stuff.
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2. the uploader is afraid of negative feedback.

but i never put much thought in it, i suppose if i got a bunch of negative feedback for no reason i would probably disable stuff to.
 
Disabling ratings hurts your ranking in youtube searches. Youtube counts how many ratings you have (does not differentiate between likes and dislikes).

Only difference between likes and dislikes is that dislikes don't show up in feeds.
 
Frankie Turner said:
Have you noticed any negative feedback as a result of this? Such as loss of views or subscribers? I am very tempted to do it. I mean I get way, way more likes than I do dislikes (like hundreds more) but I really do get tired of childish behaviour where, as you say, people do it out of spite or jealousy.
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I would think that as long as you dont disable comments you should be fine, but if you do decide to disable rating just think, you wont have those 100's of likes and everyone of those likes is apearing on that persons feed for all of their friends and subscribers to see, so in my opinion it would be more beneficial to leave ratings on and just ignore the dislikes, plus how do you know that those dislikes arn't genuine? as in they honestly just didnt like them. Anyway thats my two sense
 
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