I like this. It perfectly illustrates how when you give the public a negative signal it will be turned into a weapon for angry people to hurl at you whether it makes any sense or not.
You take out your anger using whatever outlet you think you have available by spamming the report system?
So in response to YT taking away downvotes because it’s abused by angry trolls and brigaders you decide to abuse and brigade a different system. Surely nobody can predict what will happen.
I use the dislike button to inform other users that the video (usually tutorials) is poorly made and is not worth watching. I get huge value by other users doing the same. That's not trolling and that's not abuse.
People hitting the company that censors them is not good or bad, it's inevitable. Also, a lot of people who used dislike will now resort to writing unflattering comments to express themselves. That is also inevitable. Let's see how that plays out. Surely the content creators' feelings will be spared.
I don't do that, by the way, thanks for asking. I'm just saying it's utterly moronic to take away freedom of expression from all users and channels just because a small subset can't handle seeing a fucking dislike.
Such policies should be opt-in for each channel / creator. But that won't help politicians and big brands to save face, so we can't have that. Sad.
I suggest to report the post at Google page.
So click 3 dot button -> Report Abuse -> Submit Report.
These small 3 steps can show the power of our will! Yes we can!