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Comment by d--b | Hacker News Reader

Guys, ok youtube recommendations suck, they may not always have, I don’t know, but does it really matter that much that you need to share your frustration to a community of thousands of tech people?

It’s just a product. You don’t complain online when your brand new sneakers hurt your feet, do you? Especially if you got them for free…

You don’t like youtube recommendation engine, complain to them, not to us.

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So if I'm reading this right, you'd like people to 'stop posting opinions about tech on this site about tech'? How does that work exactly?

You might be missing the point. Dislikes are also feedback to users, the same way you can infer at a quick glance on HN that if a post is 10 hours old, with 30 points, the probability is high that the reward might be low, even if the title appeals to you. YouTube is not just YouTube, it's also a tech juggernaut and thus a UI trend setter. A few months ago they stopped displaying negative feedback to users, a major indicator. They certainly won't discuss with us the result of that experiment, at least when it comes to UX. Telling someone that the topic is not relevant to HN might just be a reflection of your own personal preference on how people should use this community. Also keep in mind that in the past, discussions of that nature stemming from these very threads have at least influenced changes.

It is just a rant about a relevant topic, you don't like rants, ignore them or complain to him directly, not to us ...

And since he or she has a contact in the profile you actually could. But complaining directly to youtube? Haha, good one.

I think it has already been established that best support forum for Google is HN. As they do not read feedback directly shared to them, but lots of Google employees are part of HN and it might reach them :-)

You seemed to be missing the point, as the title states, this is now fully official, it's officially ruined YouTube, it's not a mere rant, it's highly official.

Youtube is an infrastructure that delivers a huge segment of all video content watched today, especially from independent creators.

Youtube is faceless and without a contact process, so posting on a forum where you know Google employees are active seems reasonable to me. As its recommendation system is shaping global culture, shouting in any medium with an ear about it might not be wasted effort.

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