I believe a certain % of the video has to be played before a view is counted, so if that's true you could just hit the pause button right away & downvote the video, then off to the next video for same thing.
Also, I'm genuinely not sure which is more desirable- either obvious polarization with massive opposition, or just crickets:
A) Risk letting them have the views, but make the optics horrible when normies and the left show up to see an eye-poppingly lopsided ratio
B) Don't risk giving them views, but also let the downvote counts stay low
Not an expert, but I don't think so.
I believe a certain % of the video has to be played before a view is counted, so if that's true you could just hit the pause button right away & downvote the video, then off to the next video for same thing.
Also, I'm genuinely not sure which is more desirable- either obvious polarization with massive opposition, or just crickets:
A) Risk letting them have the views, but make the optics horrible when normies and the left show up to see an eye-poppingly lopsided ratio
B) Don't risk giving them views, but also let the downvote counts stay low
We're also assuming they can't and don't manipulate the visible view and upvote and downvote counts when it suits them.