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Likes and disklikes are way too easy to game imo

Right, if you looked at likes/dislikes you'd think Trump won re-election by a landslide and Bernie won the primary easily.

Joe Biden, who won the most votes of any candidate in American history with 66% turnout and 51.3% of the vote, still had his announcement video [0] at 50/50 like/dislike.

[0]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbOU2fTg6cI&feature=youtu.be

If he only won 51.3% of the vote then a 50/50 like/dislike sounds rather representative actually, much more so than likes/dislikes on Youtube usually are.

The point is that Likes are feelings, not truthometers.

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