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Perhaps YouTube applies vote fuzzing similar to Reddit.



What's vote fuzzing?


It's when you change upvotes and downvotes so that the ration stays similar, but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.


Why on earth would that be something a platform does?


>> but now you can't consistently find if your downvoting bot had any effect.

I'd say that's why. To deter dislike bots




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