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If they are manipulating the data, they're not stupid enough to make it this obvious.
by new_guy 5y ago
If they are manipulating the data, they're not stupid enough to make it this obvious.
- aww_dang 5y agoIsn't that implying a more convoluted conspiracy? Of course they could implement shadow-dislikes to prevent the dislikes from tabulating, but that requires more steps being taken. Consider the ratio of views to likes/dislikes. Compare that ratio to other videos. It seems about par for the course. Also note that these videos have comments disabled.
- hntroll666 5y agoThe first analysis was done by Zoe of phzoe.com, then apparently completely independently reproduced and confirmed by another researcher. YouTube has openly floated the idea of not displaying dislikes, something that has been previously discussed on HN. So it seems like they are manipulating the data, and that it is this obvious, and that they're taking steps to make it less obvious now.