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posted ago by Farmerbob1 ago by Farmerbob1 +203 / -0

Immediately after the election, I was advised of all new White House content. Now I only receive about a third of them.

So, if you want to be sure to downvote everything coming out of the Biden Occupation, you need to periodically go to the White House channel home and downvote from there.

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havemydata 8 points ago +9 / -1

It isn't a conspiracy that a media company stops showing you media you repeatedly say you don't like.

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Jaqen 0 points ago +1 / -1

Precisely.

Also, unsubscribe from that channel.

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deleted 2 points ago +2 / -0
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800080 2 points ago +2 / -0

Turn off autoplay, and then play the video you want to downvote. Go do something else while it runs so you don't need to bleach your eyeballs later. Youtube will 'see you watched the whole video' before you downvoted and will give this more credibility than if you click over to the video, downvote and leave.

Even if you are not logged on, youtube can track short term behavior in the short term via the IP address you used at the time.

YT as much as said they were 'fixing' downvotes of anyone who didn't actually watch the video.

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nate 2 points ago +2 / -0

It's not disinformation. It's the way the algorithm is designed. They want you to watch as much on their site as possible so if you downvote stuff from a certain channel, you won't be shown that stuff nearly as much (if at all) in the future.

Not everything is a conspiracy, guys!

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Farmerbob1 [S] 0 points ago +1 / -1

If I subscribe to a channel, and do not receive notifications every time new content is generated on that channel, then it is disinformation.

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Jon888 2 points ago +3 / -1

This might be by design. If you start downvoting things a lot you might be teaching the algorithm to stop showing you shit you don't want to watch.

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Farmerbob1 [S] -2 points ago +1 / -3

If it is by design, it's bad design. I wouldn't be subscribed to it if I didn't want to be informed.

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Jon888 4 points ago +4 / -0

Well, while I'd bet the scrubbing of downvotes is insidious on YouTube's part, I'm just saying this might just be some BS algorithm trying to increase watch time.

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generated_name 2 points ago +2 / -0

It could also be a glitch. I regularly don't receive notifications for half the people I'm subbed to. The majority aren't even political in any way. I have to go and check their channels myself. It's been going on for a few years now.

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holytrpbatman 1 point ago +1 / -0

Why haven't you unsubscribed from that channel yet? You know where it is, do you really want to let them steal your attention at a moment's notice?

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nachosamplerREBORN -1 points ago +2 / -3

Nobody should be downvoting to simply manipulate data - this is a bad as youtube. If you watch the content and it’s awful, then by all means and although I have not watched these, I’m guessing they are awful and the majority of downvotes legitimate.

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Cheesecakecrush 4 points ago +4 / -0

Fuck that. Downvote all Biden trash.

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nachosamplerREBORN -1 points ago +1 / -2

Again, you’re as bad as the left and youtube if you do this. I’m sure if you listen and understand the content, you’ll still probably downvote. There is a difference between an unqualified and qualified opinion.

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Farmerbob1 [S] 1 point ago +1 / -0

Everything the Biden Occupation has done so far has been crap.

I am NOT upvoting anything that a illegitimate government promulgates.

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nachosamplerREBORN 0 points ago +1 / -1

Off the top of my head, perhaps the up/down option should be disabled until a significant amount of the content is played consistently...