This is a Genuine Idea to Improve the Site for Video Browsing
I'm not sure if this is the right place to mention this, but I'm sure I'm not the only YouTube user that is growing weary of badly named or intentionally misleading video titles.
Using this instance purely as an example:
You search for a video and are given suggestions, supposedly in the same vein, but when you start to play...it turns out to be a slide show or a blatant deception in the heading. I just watched a video with my 5 year old neice that was labeled as a simple test of your vision in which a red dot got smaller throughout the play time...the small child of course got closer to the screen, just in time for a scary face and a loud screaming to cut in, terrifying her.
I'm not specifically moaning about this video, or any others for that matter. Everyone is entitled to post whatever they choose in my mind.
However, I am sure that most users have had a similar experience or been fed mis-information, just for the sake of the author of a video getting more hits. (A video describing an apic battle between a Tiger and a Lion will always be more likely to be clicked on than the reality of a still image of two rather scruffy looking kittens being shown for 3 minutes with stupid sound effects that are turned up so high that your speakers crackle!)
Rant over...this is the bit that I think would make sense:
What am am suggesting is that you make the "Like/Dislike" bar visible on or under the thumbnails. I'm sure that this wouldn't be very difficult to accomplish from a programming perspective and it would at least give people a fighting chance when selecting the next video to watch.
Other users seem to acknowledge when something is not worth the time and we inform each other using the voting system that you have provided...the fact that this information isn't visible until the page has loaded seems an obvious over site on YouTubes part.
Being able to see at a glance if the video was majoritavely Red or Green would save a lot of wasted time on mindless crap, time that could be spent watching something that has been deemed more worth while by it's previous audiences. As it stands, the "Like" button or thumbs up symbols only real purpose is to act as a bookmark for whoever clicked it.
I hope YouTube will consider this idea.
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