What does YouTube thumbs down button do, nothing?

The down-vote or “thumbs down” button is a remnant of the days before Youtubes comment section was linked to Google+. The up-voting is technically now just a +1 on Google+ and since there is no “thumbs down” on Google+ the remnant is a design choice by Google to have a thumbs up and a matching thumbs down. read more

The thumbs down means nothing to the YouTube algorithm. The most important part of their algorithm is watch time. If you can get viewers to watch your videos longer, you will start ranking higher. read more

Youtube should make it work like it used to, comments that go negative would be lower then comments on top. Just do something. read more