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YouTube will experiment with ways to prevent dislike button 'mobs'
Engadget ^ | 2/3/19 | Jon Fingas

Posted on 02/04/2019 5:16:38 PM PST by EdnaMode

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The thought police has a new target: the dislike button!
1 posted on 02/04/2019 5:16:38 PM PST by EdnaMode
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YouTube will experiment with ways to prevent dislike button 'mobs'

Oooh, I'm sure those super-clever silicon valley you-tubers find a way to do it that won't be figured out within five minutes by the blogosphere.

2 posted on 02/04/2019 5:21:01 PM PST by Steely Tom ([Seth Rich] == [the Democrat's John Dean])
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This is because the Gillette video has SOOOOO many dislikes.

This timing is not coincidental.

750,000 up votes yet there are hardly any positive comments at all.

Only what seem to be SJW trolls.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0&feature=youtu.be


3 posted on 02/04/2019 5:22:36 PM PST by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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Yup that has to be a major reason.


4 posted on 02/04/2019 5:23:26 PM PST by EdnaMode
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If you say something critical of Islam of your YouTube channel —ANYTHING— they organize, pile on and hit, hit, hit that ABUSE button:

Three of those and you’re gone, quite simply.

You let one peep out about Euro kids getting beat up at school by Somalis and Khurds and you’re finished.

And I’m GLAD they did it to me; I can face myself.


5 posted on 02/04/2019 5:23:48 PM PST by gaijin
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I think dislike buttons that either don’t accumulate or are absent entirely is a chicken shit snow-flake safe zone.


6 posted on 02/04/2019 5:24:51 PM PST by sparklite2 (Don't mind me. I'm just a contrarian.)
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Youtube doesn’t want any competition in censoring wrong thoughts.

https://www.infowars.com/youtube-de-lists-all-conspiracy-videos-effectively-silences-all-non-msm-sources/


7 posted on 02/04/2019 5:25:34 PM PST by Redcitizen (I don't always lurk, but when I do, Freerepublic.)
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To: EdnaMode

This is happening on the Daily Mail.


8 posted on 02/04/2019 5:28:32 PM PST by rrrod (just an old guy with a gun in his pocket)
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YouTube is discussing experiments that could prevent "dislike mobs" from running rampant.

Every time you hit the dislike button, you get 50,000 volts to the butt. No, seriously, I didn't even know this was a thing. That's how out of tune I am.

9 posted on 02/04/2019 5:31:38 PM PST by LibWhacker
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Gillette says, “thanks comrades, here’s some ration coupons”.


10 posted on 02/04/2019 5:33:35 PM PST by Psalm 144 (2016 Election Tampering: a weasel borne plague originating in the UK.)
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The left-wing liberal mob once again got to youtube.


11 posted on 02/04/2019 5:42:11 PM PST by yesthatjallen
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Is this how Reddit works? Never understood it... Someone posts something fairly innocuous but still halfway interesting and, BANG!, a thousand down votes.


12 posted on 02/04/2019 5:43:07 PM PST by LibWhacker
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More censorship. You’d think they were Nazis or something.


13 posted on 02/04/2019 5:44:17 PM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Capitalism produces EVERYTHING Socialists/Communists/Democratic-Socialists wish to "redistribute.")
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explanation:
I dislike therefore I am.


14 posted on 02/04/2019 5:49:43 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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“The left-wing liberal mob once again got to youtube.”

They didn’t GET to YouTube-they RUN YouTube


15 posted on 02/04/2019 5:53:19 PM PST by MikePipper
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To: SaveFerris

Same with the latest Joe Rogan vid interviewing Jack Dorsey of Twitter....who’s big on censoring.


16 posted on 02/04/2019 5:54:40 PM PST by RushIsMyTeddyBear
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Google, evil nazi wannabes that they are, are slowly destroying YouTube.
17 posted on 02/04/2019 5:56:24 PM PST by tomkat
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To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Arthur Wildfire! March; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
The best way to prevent "abuse" of "dislike" is to replace the entire management team at Google and YouTube, along with at least half of the employees of both companies. Thanks EdnaMode.

18 posted on 02/04/2019 5:59:52 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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This is all abnout (1) Pew die Pie and (2) gillette


19 posted on 02/04/2019 6:06:03 PM PST by montag813
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Full-of-$hit YT manipulating again. The thumbs up / down buttons work. All kinds of conservative and gun content gets like 99% thumbs up. No organized lefties hitting those (except for “reporting” innocent stuff to get the entire channel banned).

The thumbs down works great. Most videos are mostly liked. But look at this one. This could be the main reason YT is changing things. They must not have liked what happened here!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=koPmuEyP3a0


20 posted on 02/04/2019 6:10:13 PM PST by old-ager (anti-new-ager)
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