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> people who do nothing but dislike videos > dislikes driven by social media posts calling for users to add dislikes this is not spam. how does youtube knows

• ardy42 6y ago
  >> people who do nothing but dislike videos >> dislikes driven by social media posts calling for users to add dislikes > this is not spam. Also how you think youtube knows if a certain user is disliking because they read a social media post ? I believe Reddit calls similar activity "brigading," and it's against the rules there.
• marcinzm 6y ago
  >this is not spam. Dislikes are there to help human users of Youtube (and the AI recommender systems of Google) not to be some sort of god given metric of anything. Spam is anything which makes dislikes less useful as metric for those things. Users who dislike everything aren't a useful metric. >Also how you think youtube knows which dislikes are driven by 'social media post' ? A sudden jump in dislikes with a referal tag of <insert social media>. Probably mixed with their knowledge of those user's other Youtube browsing behaviors. And Google's absurd knowledge of your internet browsing behaviors via its massive analytics network. I'm sure there's whole teams doing nothing but this at Youtube and I suspect they have very sophisticated methods at this point.