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Re:Tracking YouTube's manipulation of dislikes on the White ... by new_guy on Sunday April 25, 2021 @01:40AM (#26930559)
If they are manipulating the data, they're not stupid enough to make it this obvious.
Re:Tracking YouTube's manipulation of dislikes on the White ... by aww_dang on Sunday April 25, 2021 @02:01AM (#26930625)
Isn't that implying a more convoluted conspiracy?

Of course they could implement shadow-dislikes to prevent the dislikes from tabulating, but that requires more steps being taken.

Consider the ratio of views to likes/dislikes. Compare that ratio to other videos. It seems about par for the course. Also note that these videos have comments disabled.

Re:Tracking YouTube's manipulation of dislikes on the White ... by aww_dang on Sunday April 25, 2021 @01:45AM (#26930568)
Looking forward to an official response from YouTube.
Re:Tracking YouTube's manipulation of dislikes on the White ... by courtf on Sunday April 25, 2021 @02:57AM (#26930853)
In the absence of actually knowing how youtube tabulates likes/dislikes, this website just substitutes a guess and calls it the "real" number. Surely there could be no other reason why these numbers might change other than a conspiracy involving the deep state colluding with the communist youtubistas over at Google.

Seriously though, who gives a fuck about youtube downvotes? This kind of psychotic obsession over internet noise isn't healthy, and if you are spending a lot of time on this kind of stuff you should seek help.

Re:Tracking YouTube's manipulation of dislikes on the White ... by emayljames on Sunday April 25, 2021 @01:22AM (#26930506)
A definite case of the pot (US), calling the kettle (China) black.