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Is it going to put its thumb on the scales to counteract "review bombing/troll campaigns" for widely disliked but powerfully backed YouTube videos the way RT does?

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It's impossible to feasibly counteract review bombing.

It's even worse when you have to release a non-native extension, as that introduces a selection bias among people who want to review bomb on the main site but can't.

"people who want to review bomb on the main site but can't."

We all have different hobbies it seems.

What happened to the good old punching ball, to blow off steam?

You can do that offline where it doesn't affect other people.

Yeah, cause they are not that much widely disliked, it is just an attempt at political pressure and attempt to make them see widely disliked.

if its "not that much" and creates deception then why make site-wide changes that make it even less transparent? If a video had 4k dislikes and 46k likes then you knew that 4k accounts disliked it. There's little room for speculation there. Now you have to go to the comment section to get an idea of public opinion, where the theorized vocal minority have far more potential influence (because they can leave multiple comments, but only one thumbs down)

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