YouTube Shaving Downvotes and Adding To Upvotes During Press Briefing Today

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[–]TheJamesRocket[S] 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

Do you think that bots don't exist?

Stupid question. The real question here is, what specifically led you to believe that these videos were hit by downvote bots? Pretty much every single one of Bidens Youtube videos have all been downvoted to hell. Why do you need to bring downvote bots into the picture? You are just trying to cover for Youtubes blatant vote manipulation.

Or that YouTube really is going to risk a scandal deleting a small fraction of the votes on a video to slightly shift the like ratio

Hmm, maybe because they've been caught doing the exact same thing on multiple occasions? Youtube manipulated the votes on that infamous Gillette video from a couple years back. Why would you stick your neck out to defend a company that is known to have engaged in this behaviour in the past? Why would you concoct bullshit theorys about downvote bots to try and salvage their reputation?

You might get away with that shit on Reddit, but over here on Saidit, you are going to get called out. Many of the users on this website have first hand experience of how heavy handed Youtube censorship can be. Some of us had popular channels that were confiscated or demonetized for political reasons, while liberal jerkoffs like you cheered them on. 'Yay, ban the Nahtzees!' If you choose to be a defender of Youtube, then you are going to make some enemies here on Saidit.

The other movies are just bad movies.

Rather obviously. But that doesn't change the fact that these failed movies were still defended with any number of bullshit copouts about Internet Trolls and Russian Hackers. These theorys were picked up and amplified by faux media sites like Huffpo, Vice, and others. It then resulted in Youtube removing videos that were critical of the movies in question, just like they had done in other instances.

There is a deluded shithead here, but it's not me.

Yes, it is you. But you just can't see it, because you are a privileged shitlib who never goes against the mainstream opinion on anything. You've never had a controversial thought in your entire life. As a result, you have never run into the massive censorship apparatus that is present on all popular websites like Youtube, Reddit, which is designed to clamp down on wrongthink.

[–]FediNetizen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

Actually, another theory that I could believe is that youtube is removing downvotes from people that didn't watch the video. Plenty of conservatives would just click on the video to downvote, so I could see those getting deleted. Would still be legit, as votes from people that didn't even watch at least some of the video probably shouldn't count anyways.

But back to the bot thing,

The real question here is, what specifically led you to believe that these videos were hit by downvote bots?

I don't know hombre, maybe because lots of MAGAtards think Biden stole the election, and there are well-established bot networks that will provide fake engagement on basically every social media platform for a fee, including YouTube. And these services are often garbage, providing fake engagement that gets removed because the bots are easy to detect.

If you choose to be a defender of Youtube, then you are going to make some enemies here on Saidit.

I'm shaking in my boots, bud. Maybe you should team up with the young earth creationists on this site that I love making fun of. Stick a burning cross in my yard to let me know that god is real and he will punish the non-believers or something.

Also, that last paragraph is hilarious. Thinking youtube probably wasn't faking engagement metrics to only make a heavily downvoted white house stream slightly less heavily downvoted means I've never had a controversial thought in my life. Brilliant logic there, bud. You really would fit in with the creationist crowd.

[–]Velocity 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

young earth creationists on this site

You say this every week, after week. What a drone, must be a blast at parties telling the same stories over and over again.

I think it's relevant to repost the video that doxxed you.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=3MiLStrJ9dY

[–]FediNetizen 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Lol, that video is great, but the context in which you posted it really sticks the landing. More like this and I actually might start to enjoy seeing you around.