still at 303 views — 7:29PM EST. My son had explained this to me awhile back, I had never seen it in action until this one. What he said was that they either lock the counter (apparently the approach today) or keep decrementing it regularly. THe reason being is that apparently videos with a high number of views get bumped up based on “popularity” on various youtube pages and lists etc. I don’t know the details as I don’t go to youtube unless someone sends me a link or I see one in a thread. But that is what he explained to me a while back...
I believe that 100%. I think Google doesn’t want this on the “What’s Hot” page. I’d be interested to know how many hits it’s gotten. There are a heckuvalot more comments than 303.