Re:YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House
by duxup on Thursday June 24, 2021 @02:43PM
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I would assume YT stats often go through some sorts of spam detection ... thus this?
I see YT stats change up and down a lot. On videos with lots of likes and dislikes, and videos with almost none. I just assume it's spam / false positive detection / database synchronization... or whatever system at work.
Maintaining any kind of stats like this that matter / on a huge site has to be a 'try to keep it in the ballpark' at best scenario / endless adjustments.
It doesn't take much deep thinking to realize how these numbers are going to change for all sorts of legitimate reasons, in any direction. Maybe a number of times, tomorrow even?
Heck maybe if there was spam had nothing to do with the videos / source of the videos even? If I'm going test some up / down vote bottling ... probably going to pick a big target to see how far I can push the numbers.
I see YT stats change up and down a lot. On videos with lots of likes and dislikes, and videos with almost none. I just assume it's spam / false positive detection / database synchronization... or whatever system at work.
Maintaining any kind of stats like this that matter / on a huge site has to be a 'try to keep it in the ballpark' at best scenario / endless adjustments.
It doesn't take much deep thinking to realize how these numbers are going to change for all sorts of legitimate reasons, in any direction. Maybe a number of times, tomorrow even?
Heck maybe if there was spam had nothing to do with the videos / source of the videos even? If I'm going test some up / down vote bottling ... probably going to pick a big target to see how far I can push the numbers.