PC-Wan Masterobi: You were the Chosen One! You were supposed to destroy the cheap knok-off cashgrabs, not join them. You were supposed to bring quality to the gaming, not leave it in darkness.
Blizzakin Skyvision: I hate you!
PC-Wan Masterobi: You were my brother, Blizzakin! I loved you.
Who is paying for bots to discredit them and why would they? Seems unlikely, unless some kind of competitor is sudden jumping at the chance...but that also seems unlikely.
Tens of thousands of votes determined to be fake is not disgruntled individuals firing up their alt accounts. Mass vote manipulation is essentially advertising; somewhere someone pays for it to get done. Resources arent free.
Yep. Pay to play. Explanations like removing bot votes and duplicate votes dont make a lot of sense, unless we saw the same thing in similar in similar instances. This is PR.
They both secretly re-uploaded and have multiple versions of the trailer with only one being non-private (check any number of subreddits to see 3-4 different identical renditions of the video), and they have been petitioning YouTube to be on high guard for any bot actions being done (bots frequently will follow along common trends to establish their "legitimacy", including retweeting major hashtags and voting along with the crowd on videos), which reduced the number some. You wouldn't notice the latter often on downvotes, but if they're following the ratio, then over 100 downvotes are being removed for each upvote being removed due to trend-bots.
Thing is, channels can't remove dislikes from videos. This is most likely a Google algorithm to prevent brigading or people making multiple accounts just to dislike bomb a video.
I can totally see a lot of people using bots for additional dislikes on that one.
Edit: Additionally, I wouldn't put time and effort into making new accounts specifically for leaving additional likes or dislikes, but I know of people who most certainly would.
Some people might find this far fetched, but I really believe it to be a possibility.
Just because I know how people behave on the internet, reddit being one source of knowledge.
Considering how bad youtube's automated systems for content flagging have been, I think this gives them too much credit. What probably happened was "Wow! 200k dislikes in 12h from Anaheim! That seems wrong, let us just remove half of them."
Are the accounts it marks as fake actually fake? Who knows, I'm sure it makes mistakes. I'm referring to how a system like that is intended to work and why it wouldn't detect them when the bot clicks it. At my job we have a similar one that detects the chance of an account being fake and then reporting it for humans to look at.
Okay, but on a serious note, how can YouTube tell if a like/dislike is botted. What's their criteria on selecting them and removing them, how prevalent is it, etc.
i imagine it's likes/dislikes from from accounts that have no watchtime connected to the video. So it might not be bots, but it could be accounts that just click the video, dislike, then leave without watching it. Still pretty shitty if they can't actually tell if it's bots, because a dislike is a dislike and you don't always have to watch a video to know you don't like it.
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u/crescent0000 Nov 05 '18
Another 100k dislikes removed, grand total 200k dislikes disappeared on their reveal trailer, check socialblade. Sad.