Of course they could implement shadow-dislikes to prevent the dislikes from tabulating, but that requires more steps being taken.
Consider the ratio of views to likes/dislikes. Compare that ratio to other videos. It seems about par for the course. Also note that these videos have comments disabled.
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If they are manipulating the data, they're not stupid enough to make it this obvious.
Isn't that implying a more convoluted conspiracy?
Of course they could implement shadow-dislikes to prevent the dislikes from tabulating, but that requires more steps being taken.
Consider the ratio of views to likes/dislikes. Compare that ratio to other videos. It seems about par for the course. Also note that these videos have comments disabled.