Any thoughts on YouTube removing the dislike button? I know this happened months ago but I still think it was a strange move. We all know it is pretty bad and kids won't know what's good or bad by doing that.

i agree but i think the posts made with effort don't deserve a dislike

I don't see the point, as you could already disable likes/dislikes and comments if you didn't want negative feedback. 
It was most likely a push from companies so they could show of their likes, disable their comments and hide the dislikes to seem more favorable.
Protecting creators from negativity is just something someone came up with because the creator can still see the dislikes in their dashboard.

And now, like on TikTok fake or dangerous advice will show likes from people who believe it, get recommended to more people and there will be no indication to clueless people if its dangerous advice.

They're so fucking sensitive man, why remove a fucking button >:(

social media isn't about freedom of expression shit they claim ....they found that videos posted by distinguish ideology group mostly left wing/communist etc getting huge number of dislikes despite average content . there has been numerous cases and hence to allow platform proposer and support these assholes, they removed it .....

this is not freedom of expression but forceful way to push people watch shit .....

Yeah it was a stupid change. You need it there, not every upload is good and it needs something to demonstrate that.

i guess they should bring it back ig

Stupid policy. ppl will then flood the videos with negative comments

total nonsense, they better have left the dislike and removed the like.....

i Wish it would come back, there is plugin extension to reuse