I love vote bots!

[superhamzah85]

Religious Logic: Damn atheists, I'm going to vote down thousands of times, that will convince them and teach them a lesson.

Atheist Logic: 90% of people believe in God, do you think we give a fuck?

[RedRawckett]

rapidshare(.)com /files/453731729/X-Tube.rar <---- Visit that link and download the free youtube bot if you really need it. It's okay I guess. It lets you do mass subscribing, ccomments, likes etc.

[Avataryoutuification]

I LOLED AT THE DISPRECTION LMAO.

[AvatarOfAvatar]

Every votebot proves exactly how and why religion is so powerful.

Because it's a man made, fake system.

[SuperWikiMan]

They are only trying to do what has maintained their survival throughout history. Silencing opposing viewpoints.

[truevoiceofsanity]

5 stars for the title.

I could watch the vid in whole

votebots boring.

Youtube should look number views you get, not rating.

VFX would have been great partner. He gets lots view even if some are hostile.

[Tiwaking]

Five stars for you! :D

[yo1o2eggs]

Well.... congratulations!

I guess it is kind of a compliment when someone tries to censor you.

You'd hardly be an effective Youtube Atheist if no one tries to votebot, false DMCA or false flag you.

[BrutusAlbion]

That is indeed pretty fracking hilarious

[theanswersofnwo3]

Find the votebot dude and tell him he is an evilutionist. He will be sorry that he did this to you.

[matywaldy]

im going to 1 star this and be a vote bot.lol

[Poisinn]

Meh, votebots just strengthen the community they attempt to discourage.

[queenboxi]

how funny

you know youre doing something right when the votebots go into overkill mode like that

[rockerwere]

LoL damn you were hit pretty hard.... congrats.

[Desertphile]

It was 44,000+ one day scattered over about 40 videos.

[Nopiw]

As I know you can only vote once an hour.

44k votes on 40 vids in 24 hours, that is:

46+ votebot accounts

[CJsElephantRantics]

Alternative video title: 'Dr. Votebot, or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love All the New Subs that Complaining About Votebots Will Get Me'

Addblock plus is a very kewl program. What blocking list do you recommend DP? I use Easylist USA myself.

[Desertphile]

Howdy! I make my own list of items to block, since I'm a paranoid schizophrenic and I don't trust anyone to make such a list for me. I block all advertisement.

[CJsElephantRantics]

No howdy required. This is ChrisJ of ChrisJMoor fame. Speaking to you from the limbo of a two week suspension for 'community guidelines violations'.

It would be cool if you could make your list available for download on holysmoke or even make it available when people install AdBlock Plus. Call me naive to trust a paranoid schizophrenic but I nonetheless do;)

[luc59457]

Will this video discourage the votebotting done? Somebody (or perhaps some people) really like you here on youtube. LOL.

[NotSoOldHippy]

ROFL! Love it! God fucking damn it all, I wish I was important enough for solme rightarded cultist to votebot me!

You rock, DP. Kicking cult ass!

[valvatica]

where's the quote from at the beginning of the video?

[owchywawa]

Lol!  This kid just has no life at all.

[petrock6]

What's hilarious:

A) The views are LESS than the fucking ratings.

B) He probably used a botnet [denial of service? Trying to take yout your videos? Have fun with THAT because it's impossible.]

C) I'm pretty sure that's illegal.

D) It didn't do ANYTHING. No one ever uses the rating system unless they're stuck up assholes from Hollywood. I don't think anyone using a 'vote bot' could do anything more destructive. And it isn't even distructive. If he wanted destruction, just post comments and laugh.

[DerCrossi]

That bot-user seems to be a religious fanatic AND a free energy cultist xD

[EartherZero]

I heard that the Last Church of Our Lady of Perpetual Motion holds services under a bridge on I-35 nightly.

[HammandClov]

what is the primary motive of votebots, given that "insignificant" channels like this could not possible become any more insignificanr? And I thought the votebots mostly attack freethinkers, atheists, etc. and sorta give high ratings to more Christian channels.

[Desertphile]

Howdy! I have no idea what the motive could be for someone using a vote 'bot: even one "star" improves a videos popularity than zero "stars."

[morknmindl]

666 is an interesting number and someone likes it a lot.

Seconds, minutes and hours are what we go about our day based upon.

60 seconds in a minute. 6+0=6

60 minutes in an hour. 6+0=6

24 hours in a day. 2+4=6

A second can be anything but to make this daily 666 thing is to me not a coincidence.

It's okay, just know that more and more are rejecting the system every day.

Time is time and their time is nearing its end.

[JodaSFU]

You should go see a doctor, morknmindl. That sounds an awful lot like paranoid schizophrenia.

[VeritasVoce]

There's a diagnosis I can agree with. It's also reminiscent of certain cult tendencies.

[Terrentia]

You're famous Desertphile, and you love it. :P

thanks for adblock plus commercial spam update btw.

I always use firefox with adblock plus. Wouldn't go internet surfing without it.

[AbbeyNormal]

I can't believe those numbers. I'm glad you have a good sense of humor about it, I am rather pissed.

I'm getting that firefox thing set up as soon as I get home. Votebots been hittin' me as well.

[Desertphile]

From what I can tell in the data from the "insight" function, those 100,080 one-star ratings actually increased my channel's popularity rating very slightly. One "star" is better than none! :-)

For the record, I would also object to a 'bot that did 100,080 five-star ratings. Like most people, I detest cheaters.

[ThetaOmega]

Everybody's got a votebot these days, honestly, a few channels get them and all of a sudden it's the craze. I got my first back in March and I adopted another one a few days ago. 17,000 of my very own one-star votes.

[lwahlberg100]

Holy shit....they didn't even hit Thunderf00t that hard....

[SpeedFreakNO]

Awesome and hilarious :P

[cynobill]

Haha they never learn, I've found loads of great channels since the attacks begain and i didn't even have to look. A votebot is a badge of honor in my books :)

Thanks again votebot.

[TheFallibleFiend]

Be careful, buddy. It may be more than your ego he's trying to stroke.

[TurboDally]

The problem is that the software needed to votebot is cheap to get hold of, and any competing company or person who wishes to silence an opposition can do so simply by buying the software and running it.

[fullmontycarlo]

Buy it? Hell, it's easy to code. Not to say the oxyMoron/oxyhydrogen "wunderkind" could actually do it.

[easuter]

Yes I think there are some questionable companies selling votebots and spambots for popular Web 2.0 sites (like youtube).

But I think that if you are good at a scripting language like Perl or Python you could probably just write one yourself in no time.

[gorypleasure]

Congrats! lol

[TheRetardedChristian]

hho fucktard did it

[klangsteiner]

"he" was probably one of those free energy wastes of skin.

[Horseplay71]

You know you've "arrived" on YT if you get this many 1 star ratings! BTW in Britain posh people don't cum, they "arrive" so double entendre for ya!

[rednecktrucker1969]

lol, did you cum?

[redtortoise76]

I'm not quite sure how these votebots work but it would make sense that if one can program a bot to give you 1 star ratings then another can program a bot to give you 5 star ratings. It would be nice to run one of those for a few days on your channel to bring the ratings back up where they were.

Us loyal subscribers know the truth anyway but still just for kicks.

It kind of annoys me to see all those unjust one star ratings.

[NotSoOldHippy]

Firefox allows for easy scripting to be created as add-on functionality which makes votebotting very easy. 4channers did it for the NASA space station recycle plant to be named Xenu and then later on to be named Stephen Colbert. LOL.

Google could update their own severs and script engines to block votebotting but they don't because Google is lazy, increasingly evil, and only does things if there's money involved.

[luc59457]

"Google could update their own severs and script engines to block votebotting but they don't because Google is lazy, increasingly evil, and only does things if there's money involved." Doesn't most of the developed world follow the money? You make it sound like a crime. Perhaps it is... If you really think so, perhaps it is money your true enemy and not so much the companies, so many people are stuck in the game. There is not much else offered. Whatd'ya expect, the universe is full of chaos.

[NomadSoul76]

"Doesn't most of the developed world follow the money? "

Point of fact.. youtube is STILL believed to be losing money hand over foot. Even with the recently increasing trend of intrusive advertising I don't know that it's yet managed to turn a profit.

[luc59457]

I never said youtube was or wasn't loosing money... The meaning of what I said is their ultimate goal is to pull in a profit, That's simply the goals of many in the developed world.

[luc59457]

YouTube as a millstone around Googles profitability is a mirage. Contrary to Credit Suisses estimates of a $470m annual loss, Google is more likely losing a fraction of that amount, due to peering for 73 per cent of its traffic, buying bandwidth from some of the lowest-cost Tier 1 providers, using unprecedented bulk purchasing power to secure very favorable wholesale rates, and running data centers far away from expensive locales," the report says. 2009

[ArtificialCleverenAI]

Thanks for mentioning Adblock, great Firefox addon. Cheers.

[1stCainite]

That's 150 orgasms right there.

[uni4dfx]

Hold on in there, I'm making my own votebot to counter this shit.

[Danmill23]

They say ... "Theft is the sincerest form of flattery"!

[Vogter2100]

As long as your ego is all he strokes LOL

[PragmaticHeathen]

ROFL Yeah, bots do have their up side.

[ravenslaves]

So long as it's only your ego being stroked on Youtube, there shouldn't be any violation of the TOS.

I shall votebot you 5 stars, in my very limited way.

[scicoe]

All i can say is WOW.. thats got be some kind of record of vote botting Holy crap!

[Akatam0t0ma]

Where did you get the silly idea that you YouTube channel is tiny and insignificant? 4000+ subs is quite a significant number, I must say.

[mikemikemofo]

damn dp, you're video really sucked that day;) normally they are pretty good.

[tmafkap]

Yeah, votebots are cool, you gotta love 'em. They hit you and you know: someone out there cares for you!

[redshiftexperiment]

DP, why don't you tell those wangers to go bot themselves.

[Nopiw]

WOW, I have to get one of those

[GetMeThere1]

I have to admit....occasionally I get a guilty feeling that I'm too hard on believers....

....Happily, I'm ALWAYS confirmed in my "faith" about who and what believers really are by the rash of fundamentalist vot-botting that plagues youtube.

[although the latest insanity of the Discovery Institute was fun, too]

[hellomethree]

wow... this is getting out of hand... this system needs to be changed.

[Servant0fSteel]

Holy fucking shit thatsa a lil much...

 lmao

[maddmanNeal]

SEXIST! A Woman Can Be Just As Big An Asshole As ANY MAN!

[mnewf2002]

Yes, But men have perfected the Art of "asshol-ery" while women have perfected the "Bitch" skill

[lisamariefan]

So do you have to have a certain esper equipped to learn those techniques? :P

[NotSoOldHippy]

Well yeah, but Internet assholeness appears to be nearly 100% a male thang.

[amazingdavidman]

I've never noticed your views/ratings were so modest--I'm pretty surprised, I always assumed I was just getting to them early. You're aces in my books, Desertphile!

[WeedGreenPowerRanger]

100,000.

ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND.

Jesus christ, does a video have to get over a million 1 stars for someone at the fucking youtube office to get the picture?

[Akatam0t0ma]

And for the YouTube administration, business as usual...

[Desertphile]

According to my math, the vote 'bot took two seconds for every rating (1440 minutes a day, at 44,000 ratings). I've no idea how a 'bot can do that. I assume it is done using embeded web page objects and the Youtube javascript API.

[MrSuperChrist]

ya, the voting system uses ajax to send the vote request, as long as u have a valid session open with youtube, you can send vote requests..... u can create a valid session using the youtube api, then use pass the session id when you call the vote it, it's pretty simple.. you dont need a thousand of accounts, just one.. but i dont know nothing and didnt see anything.

[Dall5000]

I have yet to see a Vote bot video get vote botted.

[WeedGreenPowerRanger]

Thats because they get tens of thousands of legitimate 5 stars. Tends to dilute the effect.

[schn0zberries]

Why, some of those are over 9000!

[JBSauce]

What 9000???

[NotSoOldHippy]

LOL! I wonder if DP recognizes the reference. }:-}

[mikethebiped]

Every time I see one of your spreadsheets I get a laugh. Thanks DP