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Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by cortexio » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:08 PM UTC

Hmm, you cant really be sure if this is from bots or not. However, youtube has shown in the last 5 years that they actively want to promote the left and shown that they do not like anyone that has different opinions.

I recall the trending page in the US being spammed with pro leftist videos that were unpopular while major popular videos from more conservative channels werent even showing up.

Or all the demonitization of almost any conservative channels 4-5 years ago. It has gotten better though, oof.

Want to give a skeptic opinion about covid or masks? They'll delete your video or demonitize it.

How about them spamming their own channel with leftist propaganda videos with the likes/dislikes disabled because it was getting 90% dislikes?

Ah well, nothing you can do anyway.

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by phzoe » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:12 PM UTC

drannex wrote: post #15

The tone in this is... Less than stellar. This is standard operating procedure, mainly dealing with deleted accounts, and reducing spam or bot actions on the site. 3.9M removed over the course of 500+ videos for a global account for one of the largest countries isn't all that surprising. They also remove likes and comments for spam reasons as well, which this "article" (if you can call it that) just so happened to ig…

The data shows they deleted: 9005 Likes 3.9 Million dislikes 750,000 views

You're welcome to think that nearly twice as many diskikes were removed as remain is normal. I disagree. Thank you.

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by phzoe » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:13 PM UTC

lph wrote: post #32

This is presented in a way that infers political partisanship, but without any evidence for or against that argument. - No statistics for previous administration's like/dislike removal rate. Was it lower? Higher? We don't know. - No statistics for YouTube like/dislike removal rates on other kinds of political or non-political videos. Maybe this is extraordinary behavior for YouTube, or maybe not. We don't know. In ot…

The left wasn't keeping track of how many of their dislikes were removed from the previous administration. Why not? Because it was a pitiful and legit amount. That's why! Think!

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by duxup » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:15 PM UTC

phzoe wrote: post #42

drannex wrote: post #15

The tone in this is... Less than stellar. This is standard operating procedure, mainly dealing with deleted accounts, and reducing spam or bot actions on the site. 3.9M removed over the course of 500+ videos for a global account for one of the largest countries isn't all that surprising. They also remove likes and comments for spam reasons as well, which this "article" (if you can call it that) just so happened to ig…

The data shows they deleted: 9005 Likes 3.9 Million dislikes 750,000 views You're welcome to think that nearly twice as many diskikes were removed as remain is normal. I disagree. Thank you.

> is normal. I disagree.

Why though?

What's normal and can't abnormal things happen?

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by phzoe » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:15 PM UTC

duxup wrote: post #10

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'…

9005 spam likes 3.9 million spam dislikes

Makes sense.

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by phzoe » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:16 PM UTC

MSM wrote: post #17

BitwiseFool wrote: post #7

Can you imagine how much of "scandal" this would have been if this happened during the last administration?

What makes you think that it wasn't also happening during the last administration?

"What makes you think that it wasn't also happening during the last administration?"

Because the left didn't complain. Which is odd, because they're pretty good at that.

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by phzoe » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:18 PM UTC

mdasen wrote: post #29

I'm a little shocked that this is getting so much traction here. The site (81m-dot-org) seems to be a right-wing "the election was stolen from Trump" site. Their "about" page says: It is true that Biden won the most votes cast for a U.S. presidential candidate, amassing about 81 million votes. Such a popular president should have some truly epic YouTube numbers. Let's keep track. I'm sure we won't see anything weird…

Good thing you audited all the states and know the truth.

Some of us aren't privy to such magical knowledge, and so we'd like a look see.

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by happytoexplain » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:29 PM UTC

phzoe wrote: post #42

drannex wrote: post #15

The tone in this is... Less than stellar. This is standard operating procedure, mainly dealing with deleted accounts, and reducing spam or bot actions on the site. 3.9M removed over the course of 500+ videos for a global account for one of the largest countries isn't all that surprising. They also remove likes and comments for spam reasons as well, which this "article" (if you can call it that) just so happened to ig…

The data shows they deleted: 9005 Likes 3.9 Million dislikes 750,000 views You're welcome to think that nearly twice as many diskikes were removed as remain is normal. I disagree. Thank you.

Personally I have no idea how likes vs dislikes are likely to be distributed in any given set of artificial operations. Why are you so sure about it?

Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by [deleted] » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:33 PM UTC

phzoe wrote: post #43

lph wrote: post #32

This is presented in a way that infers political partisanship, but without any evidence for or against that argument. - No statistics for previous administration's like/dislike removal rate. Was it lower? Higher? We don't know. - No statistics for YouTube like/dislike removal rates on other kinds of political or non-political videos. Maybe this is extraordinary behavior for YouTube, or maybe not. We don't know. In ot…

The left wasn't keeping track of how many of their dislikes were removed from the previous administration. Why not? Because it was a pitiful and legit amount. That's why! Think!

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Re: YouTube removed 3.9M dislikes for White House

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Post by chomp » Thu, Jun 24, 2021, 7:34 PM UTC

phzoe wrote: post #43

lph wrote: post #32

This is presented in a way that infers political partisanship, but without any evidence for or against that argument. - No statistics for previous administration's like/dislike removal rate. Was it lower? Higher? We don't know. - No statistics for YouTube like/dislike removal rates on other kinds of political or non-political videos. Maybe this is extraordinary behavior for YouTube, or maybe not. We don't know. In ot…

The left wasn't keeping track of how many of their dislikes were removed from the previous administration. Why not? Because it was a pitiful and legit amount. That's why! Think!

Do you have any supporting evidence of this?

Unrelated to the topic, from your comments and post, you seem like you are a rather smart person, but you are also accepting a lot of negativity in your life. I really do suggest you disconnect for a bit from TV, news, and the Internet and look for creative outputs for your energy that aren't Red vs Blue.