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CMV: Claiming Blizzard is deleting dislikes on their youtube video is an unsubstantiated conspiracy theory.

So, Blizzcon happened. I, among many others, are entirely unhappy with the Diablo Mobile announcement.

It's a well-known fact that YouTubers have the ability to remove comments they don't like from their videos, or disable the like/dislike feature entirely

**But I am seeing people claiming that Blizzard is somehow deleting dislikes on their announcement trailers**

Not comments, but the dislikes on the video. Not disabling the feature, but manipulating the amount of likes/dislike

Personally, I am finding it far more likely that this is youtube's algorithm removing bot dislikes for the following reasons

* It makes little sense to delete 100K dislikes, thus bringing the like/dislike ratio from 2% to 3% while still being a very noticeable drop in dislike count.
* It is a much easier sell for me to believe that youtube has an anti-bot/brigading algorithm in place than Blizzard somehow having access to the ability to delete dislikes without ***any*** word having been leaked about this feature from ***any*** source. As the saying goes: "Three people can keep a secret if two of them are dead."
   * This algorithm wouldn't even have to be that complex. "Has this viewer watched 10% of the video? If no, mark as brigading for deletion."
* If Blizzard is paying Google for the removal of dislikes, would they really be satisfied with the current result?

So unless you change my mind, I will continue to use Occam's razor and disregard any comment saying that Blizzard is somehow deleting dislikes.

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Edit: So.. it's been nearly three hours. If no one comments, how to satisfy Rule E?
gpt
If YouTube had an anti-bot algorithm, wouldn't it make more sense for it to keep some dislikes from being counted in the first place rather than deleting them later? Also, is it known that YouTube uses or has been planning to use such an algorithm? If not, how would it be easier to keep secret than a few people's ability to manipulate dislike counts?

As for the results not being very satisfactory for Blizzard, it could be that they just deleted as many dislikes as they thought they could get away with, or that they had agreed on a certain amount or ratio of dislikes being removed before they knew how badly the announcement would be received, or that the decision was made by the same foresightless people who planned the Diablo Immortal announcement.