We need your help... Media
Published: 12 years ago
Did you know you can buy dislikes on YouTube? Yep, you can. And someone is doing it to us. That's why we need your help. Save these videos from YouTube death by "liking" them:
Sherman614 Field Test: http://bit.ly/MzBDpJ
Gavkoo Field Test: http://bit.ly/Qg8w5v
Reed Fishing: http://bit.ly/QGKOUo
We're not sure who or why someone is buying dislikes on our videos, but here's what we do know:
We've gotten more dislikes on these videos than on any other videos.
The waves of dislikes come from Vietnam. We've had a disproportionate number of dislikes to video views from Vietnam.
One of the sites that sells dislikes appears to have an IP address in Vietnam.
YouTube doesn't seem to care. We contacted them last week, but haven't heard back.
When videos get lots of dislikes, they sink to the bottom of search results on YouTube and they don't show up in the related videos in the sidebar. This destroys the longevity of a video within the structure of YouTube.
This is malicious and will negatively affect our business and YouTube capabilities for years to come.
This sucks.
I truly believe we're bringing valuable information to the knife community via our YouTube channel. Yes, we're a business, but we're real people who are passionate about what we're doing. Building our channel and developing our content is very difficult; all of our videos take loads of dedication, time and energy. Knowing that someone can easily negate the work I'm doing makes my blood boil. I don't know who it is and I don't especially care. I just want it to stop! But until it does, I'm soliciting your help to save the videos that have been hit by "liking" them. Hopefully that helps.
Thanks,
Ben
Sherman614 Field Test: http://bit.ly/MzBDpJ
Gavkoo Field Test: http://bit.ly/Qg8w5v
Reed Fishing: http://bit.ly/QGKOUo
We're not sure who or why someone is buying dislikes on our videos, but here's what we do know:
We've gotten more dislikes on these videos than on any other videos.
The waves of dislikes come from Vietnam. We've had a disproportionate number of dislikes to video views from Vietnam.
One of the sites that sells dislikes appears to have an IP address in Vietnam.
YouTube doesn't seem to care. We contacted them last week, but haven't heard back.
When videos get lots of dislikes, they sink to the bottom of search results on YouTube and they don't show up in the related videos in the sidebar. This destroys the longevity of a video within the structure of YouTube.
This is malicious and will negatively affect our business and YouTube capabilities for years to come.
This sucks.
I truly believe we're bringing valuable information to the knife community via our YouTube channel. Yes, we're a business, but we're real people who are passionate about what we're doing. Building our channel and developing our content is very difficult; all of our videos take loads of dedication, time and energy. Knowing that someone can easily negate the work I'm doing makes my blood boil. I don't know who it is and I don't especially care. I just want it to stop! But until it does, I'm soliciting your help to save the videos that have been hit by "liking" them. Hopefully that helps.
Thanks,
Ben