Posted on 08/07/2009 6:58:50 AM PDT by devane617
I have noticed a few comments on the YouTube site attached to the protest videos that are saying YouTube has stopped the "hit-counters" of the protest videos and marked all of the with a "Thumbs-Down." Anyone notice if this is true? Has YouTube altered the view counters? Are they marking the protest videos with Thumbs-Down? Something else to watch.
They have been manipulating this for years on Youtube. I once clicked a thumbs down on an Obama video once, then went off and right back to the same video 10 seconds later and it showed that I had given it a thumbs up instead of a thumbs down.
Yes. This is true.
I was on a thread last night. When a pro-Obamacare remark was posted, it had an instant thumbs up.
The Antis were marked down instantly.
Also, there is a group of pros who are commenting with talking points. I was amazed that the first comment on the video posted by a FReeper from MI was a Pro-Obamacare person.
Someone is tracking these.
Interesting.
Yea, I can see commenters are beginning to see and comment about the manipulation. We are experiencing a sad day in America. Most of our fathers fought for our America, maybe it is our time. I just hope all those that concerns themselves with nothing more complex than the next episode of American-Idol wakes up before it is too late.
I’ve noticed something fishy (to use an Obama term) about the thumbs down/ups at YouTube. It doesn’t seem like mine get counted all the time.
Apparently this has been going on for a while. Looks like the manipulation is not a very guarded secret.
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