This is a mirror. PLEASE READ IF YOU WONDER WHY. TerraRaising does the math. Original here: www.youtube.com He says: “There is a cheap method to keep everyone happy (except the votebotters). A simple program for an image verification system, with an alpha-numeric sequence of 36 numbers and letters, would generate with five characters an over 60 million-to-one chance that the voter is a bot. These systems are cheap and easy to implement. However, if YT does not want to counteract the bots, we must do so ourselves and continue to unite until we become too big to ignore.” To which I responded: “The system that most websites use to confirm that we mere mortals are not computers? Ah, but it wouldn’t *pay* YT to implement it, unless we can make them pay for not implementing it. Presumably YT is not paid for votebot hits (they might be), but they definitely earn every time one of us clicks on a video to rate it back up.” Who is perpetrating these attacks? I don’t think that this has been satisfactorily proven. Regardless, judging by the videos that have been targetted, the culprit is most likely a young, immature, fundamentalist “christian” troll. The culprit is not necessarily an uploader of videos, merely someone who deludes himself (more likely than herself, though this could be a female) that he or she is doing the “lord’s work”. Actually, the culprit is achieving the opposite, but that point is probably too subtle for this troll. I totally agree that we must unite and …
I take it that all your videos were votebotted … ???
One clue is the number of votes to the number of views. Most videos get ratings on 1-10% of views.
Currently, creationists are votebotting Ardi videos. Not that it changes the scientific facts!
Thanks for info I do have other videos I can check.
“mirror” in the videos title means that you are asking the wrong person.
Good luck with it!
As to checking whether it’s a votebot attack — search for videos about bot attacks, look for those that show how to detect an attack, and then look in “Insight”.
You can’t do it for a deleted video, though.
How do I fix this because I just deleted one of my videos and reinstalled it; I only have like 6 Subscribers and I see spicks on my graph.
The one I reloaded had 5*s ratings then in one day it went to 1*; the only thing I could not think of what else to do so I deleted and reloaded it, but that Deleted all the nice comments and everything.
The others are still there can some check the stats for me and let me know if it is a bot attack please and thanks.