[Alf]

Originally Posted by bitontheslide

i think you have it all backward. There is way too much hate on youtube across the board and any action they can take to reduce that, has to be a good thing.

To take your example, if trump posts a video, and 20 seconds later there are 1000 thumbs down, it's trolls doing it. It has no bearing or indication of the items popularity, it's just trolls

I've done my own research into this. I did it by looking at Donald Trump Jr's Twitter account. He has far more likes than comments, thousands more, yet if you go into the comments, a very, very large majority of the comments you see will be negative towards him, you'll have to scroll down for ages to find just a few favourable comments. So I decided to start blocking all the posters from negative comments every time I went in his threads as an experiment, but no matter how many times I blocked, the next time I looked at his comments it would still be the same. They're all bots. If you don't believe me then try it for yourself.

Biden's YouTube dislikes were massively in the negative on his videos, so they started turning off the likes and dislikes, that was happening from late January early February time.