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      wrx7m @scottalanmiller
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      @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

      EU-Japan trade: Five things about the world's biggest deal
      http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-47086737

      Free trade is good

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        scottalanmiller
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        Central African Republic agrees peace deal with rebel groups
        http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47105774

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          scottalanmiller
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          US fake university: India protests after students arrested
          http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-47106199

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            scottalanmiller
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            Egypt mummies: New tombs found in Minya
            http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-47103114

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              scottalanmiller
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              McDonald's Loses Big Mac trademark in the EU.

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                DustinB3403 @scottalanmiller
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                @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                McDonald's Loses Big Mac trademark in the EU.

                Who knew McD's is a patient troll.

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                  scottalanmiller @DustinB3403
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                  @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  @scottalanmiller said in Non-IT News Thread:

                  McDonald's Loses Big Mac trademark in the EU.

                  Who knew McD's is a patient troll.

                  Very patient, they've waited many decades.

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                    mlnews
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                    YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button

                    Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?

                    YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.

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                      DustinB3403 @mlnews
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                      @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                      YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button

                      Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?

                      YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.

                      The biggest issue with taking your user choice away is that they'd be better by just not going to the video or platform at all.

                      Any approach to stopping this "Disklike mob" issue that is being thought about is equivalent to silencing speech on their platform.

                      Do they have the right to do this, for sure. It's their platform but I'm certain it'll have a wide effect.

                      Imagine if someone posted a video on the perks of being a Neo-Nazi or Scientologist today, and it couldn't be downvoted into oblivion. . .

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                        dafyre @DustinB3403
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                        @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                        @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                        YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button

                        Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?

                        YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.

                        The biggest issue with taking your user choice away is that they'd be better by just not going to the video or platform at all.

                        Any approach to stopping this "Disklike mob" issue that is being thought about is equivalent to silencing speech on their platform.

                        Do they have the right to do this, for sure. It's their platform but I'm certain it'll have a wide effect.

                        Imagine if someone posted a video on the perks of being a Neo-Nazi or Scientologist today, and it couldn't be downvoted into oblivion. . .

                        It could still be comment bombed, lol.

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                          Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                          @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                          YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button

                          Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?

                          YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.

                          The biggest issue with taking your user choice away is that they'd be better by just not going to the video or platform at all.

                          Any approach to stopping this "Disklike mob" issue that is being thought about is equivalent to silencing speech on their platform.

                          Do they have the right to do this, for sure. It's their platform but I'm certain it'll have a wide effect.

                          Imagine if someone posted a video on the perks of being a Neo-Nazi or Scientologist today, and it couldn't be downvoted into oblivion. . .

                          So what if it couldn't be?

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                            Dashrender @dafyre
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                            @dafyre said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            @mlnews said in Non-IT News Thread:

                            YouTube is trying to prevent angry mobs from abusing “dislike” button

                            Could the thumbs-down button disappear from YouTube entirely?

                            YouTube's dislike button can be a source of anxiety for many creators, and now YouTube is considering a number of options to prevent viewers from abusing that tool. Tom Leung, director of project management at YouTube, posted an update to the Creator Insider channel recently in which he detailed some "lightly discussed" options for combatting "dislike mobs," or large groups of users who slam the dislike button on a video before watching the whole thing, or even watching the video at all.

                            The biggest issue with taking your user choice away is that they'd be better by just not going to the video or platform at all.

                            Any approach to stopping this "Disklike mob" issue that is being thought about is equivalent to silencing speech on their platform.

                            Do they have the right to do this, for sure. It's their platform but I'm certain it'll have a wide effect.

                            Imagine if someone posted a video on the perks of being a Neo-Nazi or Scientologist today, and it couldn't be downvoted into oblivion. . .

                            It could still be comment bombed, lol.

                            no where near the same effect. In fact - it would likely have the opposite effect. A vid with hundreds/thousands/millions of comments is likely to bring more attention, not less.

                            If you see a video with 100K down votes, you might just skip over it.. but you see a video with 100K comments, you might watch it - at least for a min. And if that video has a pre start ad - they just earned more money.

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                              DustinB3403 @Dashrender
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                              @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                              So what if it couldn't be?

                              I don't think it's a particularly horrible issue if it couldn't be. But videos that receive upvotes on YouTube get pushed to the top of the page and recommended videos based on the number of votes.

                              Hate speech is just an example of something that could be voted up. Even if it should be voted down and left to moderators to remove.

                              That's about as PC as I care to get today.

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                                DustinB3403
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                                Views, votes (up and down), comments, and followers, along with who knows what other metrics all push a video to the "Recommended list".

                                By removing the ability to lower the recommendation rating by removing Down voting they're just messing with their platform.

                                Granted I understand the issue that they don't want bots or false accounts down voting things that are bad for a brand or whatever. But there has to be some user control. If 100K people genuinely dislike a video and downvote it in 15 seconds of it being posted why should Youtube try to protect the video creator?

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                                  Dashrender @DustinB3403
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                                  @DustinB3403 said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                  Views, votes (up and down), comments, and followers, along with who knows what other metrics all push a video to the "Recommended list".

                                  By removing the ability to lower the recommendation rating by removing Down voting they're just messing with their platform.

                                  Granted I understand the issue that they don't want bots or false accounts down voting things that are bad for a brand or whatever. But there has to be some user control. If 100K people genuinely dislike a video and downvote it in 15 seconds of it being posted why should Youtube try to protect the video creator?

                                  How are they protecting against bots upvoting those same things though?
                                  Like Alphabet it protecting both.

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                                    DustinB3403 @Dashrender
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                                    @Dashrender said in Non-IT News Thread:

                                    How are they protecting against bots upvoting those same things though?
                                    Like Alphabet it protecting both.

                                    I don't know, but the conversation is about preventing downvoting. Not upvoting.

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                                      scottalanmiller
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                                      Designing for the average means designing for no one.

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                                        scottalanmiller
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                                        Paris fire: Ten dead and many injured at apartment block

                                        Ten people including a baby have died in a fire at an eight-storey building in south-western Paris, fire service officials say.

                                        More than 30 people - including six firefighters - were injured. One person is in a serious condition.

                                        Fifty people were evacuated by ladders from the blaze in the upmarket 16th arrondissement.

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                                          scottalanmiller
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                                          Scottish Highland rescue after pensioner's SOS signal picked up in Texas

                                          A man who fell ill at his remote Highlands cabin was rescued after the signal from his distress beacon was picked up in the US.

                                          The man, who is in his 70s and lives "off-grid", uses the device in its "check-in" mode every week to let his family and friends know he is well.

                                          On Sunday he triggered an SOS, which was automatically sent to a response centre in Houston, Texas.

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                                            scottalanmiller
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                                            Samsung finally decides partnering with a Supreme counterfeiter is a bad idea

                                            Widespread ridicule forces Samsung to terminate its "Supreme Italia" partnership.

                                            Back in December, Samsung took the stage at one of its Chinese product launches and announced it was partnering with "Supreme," the popular skateboard fashion brand. The announcement was made with all the usual tech launch pomp and circumstance, with the CEO of "Supreme" coming on Samsung's stage to talk about the collaboration. The only problem: this was a Supreme counterfeiter called "Supreme Italia."

                                            The announcement was met with widespread ridicule online, as "Samsung the Apple copycat" had teamed up with a Supreme copycat. Samsung initially defended the deal, but after seeing the online reaction, the company started "reconsidering" its counterfeit collaboration. Now, two months after announcing the deal, Samsung is walking away, according to a translation from Engadget China.

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