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  • someone do it to fred lol

  • I don't understand where the "star ratings" are. I give thumbs-up clicks to Thunderf00t's videos, but I never see where I can give 5-star ratings

  • You realize these are Glitches right?

  • It's interesting how these Christians forget the commandment, "Thou shalt not bear false witness." Clearly using a votebot to enter extra votes is a crude attempt to deceive (lie to) those viewing the video later. Well done, sinners!

  • vote bots our being used under a channel named purecomedian @user/PureComedian he said that people are still using them but none even know because of the money being shredded at the Top of bang cock!

  • SO! this is the 709 people who dislike this vid! they're BOTS

  • EVERYONE WHO ISNT AN ATHIEST IS RETARTED

  • @buteforce what is dishonest? your commet is very vague

  • His comments not vague at all.

    Why lie and say it is?

    Oh - you're a creationist - thanks for proving his point.

  • @IbanezLaney actually i am very much an athiest you dick so your comment is a load of shit and and does not prove your point in any way. his point IS vague - it says creationists are dishonest and lie but he doesnt back that up. you can be an athiest and challenge other athiests you small minded fool.

  • @buteforce

    Check out the new YouTube layout. No more votebotting, which means no more complaining.

    GO YOUTUBE!

  • @TruthfulChristian

    they still can click on the thumps down buttom :D

  • why don't they use CAPTCHAs like they do on commenting?

  • You would think that an someone smart enough to make a votebot could just make it vote intermittently, so not to attract so much attention. One failure stacked onto another, its horrifyingly painful to watch other humans suck this bad.

  • ACTUALLY, votebots arn't back; They've always been here and they're so easy to make too.

    The only way youtube (Google) could slow these votebots is by tracking the ip of each vote. Double IP's means that either the household has multiple accounts (Familly), OR if there was MANY votes from the same ip, then it is a vote bot.

    Youtube should ban that IP, and bam the votebot user is dead. Obviously, the person could use another IP, but it's boring and takes a while so......ya you et my point.

  • Not an expert, but the only problem I see with your suggestion is that it could block public computers -- internet cafes, libraries, computers on college campuses, etc. ??

  • @pythag3

    oh crap, youre right.

  • This is true, but I think the benefits would outweigh the negatives. And it would still be better than the present situation IMO.

  • My videos have just started to come under attack. the comments on my videos are all getting negative votes so no one can read them as well.

  • help! I have just been vote botted! why me? i just put singing vids up

  • okay im really confused when i look at all my uploaded videos on my account, all of them say half star, but then when i go to them individually, they are fine....im confoozed

  • The exact same thing happened to me, but I think it's happened before and the ratings never changed. I think it's just a glitch.

  • say here man mine all say half star and yet when i click on them their normal 5 stars

  • it's because your singing sucks.

  • @ekaye86

    Maybe people really don't like your singing...

  • ediblenapalm

    This account is suspended.

  • violetCosmonaut!!! ACCOUNT WAS CLOSED!!! 1:46

  • youtube is not a research database, and stars are not a measure of credibility but rather of opinion, so what exactly do creators of votebots expect to gain?

  • Lowering a video's visibility?

  • I'm a little confused here.

    What does recording my screen have to do with clicking on "Insight" and tracking votebots?

  • you get say 10 votes a day , when there is a atack 500 vots apear on that day and mostly all 1 star , and you can prove that as demonstrated

  • I tihnk I'm being attacked! My stars are slowly dropping over this one week!

  • What, you mean Fred Phelps? I wonder if he even knows about what we do to his self-image on here, the poor stupid fuck.

  • ...and not to forget me =P

    I was votebotted on my SimCity 4 gaming videos

  • There back??? o.o

  • What would make the votebot cowards not cowards. Should they knock on your door and say: ''I challenge you to a duel today twelve o'klock outside the saloon''

  • i got vote botted and it was a very pissing me off thing i like to get pissed for no god dam reason

  • A partner brings attention to this problem. (HappyCabbie)

    watch?v=cuDkPckXtE0

  • there is an option in windows that lets you take a screen shot

  • dude its happened to mine as well, all my cideos are like 2 or 1 star, u can see on my 'smoke bomb' video, it only has 56 views, yet it has been rated 24 TIMES! which is why it is on 1 star... anyway to reset the ratings??

  • I'm really kind of confused - please enlighten me with non-technical terms... Are they hackers or vruses or what?

  • basically its a group of people that target certain videos and all rate it 1 star.

  • Anyway to view insight on other peoples' videos?

  • holy crap! you have over 4000 unread messages?

  • Is my channel weak?

  • Thats like fat people asking if they are fat.

  • ah thankz. Will buy some wood to build walls for my channel and stuff.

    no however, i am not afraid of these bots

    whoever watches my video shall have fun when doing it, and if not,...well....then not ^^

  • Paranoid... if you get few stars is less probably that your vid will be watched; The "jesus loves you vids" are way better vids... VFX just bring ignorance and stupidity to human kind; and for example the vids of ZOMGitsCriss are funny, interesting and even sexy; vids dont get better than that.

  • you really are a cock. A theist with the name 'uzi 9mm'. Just about sums you, and religion, up

  • lol, im sorry but who really cares what rating their video carries? xD

  • It is not about that. It's not a vanity thing, I mean, these people aren't worried with their ratings just because they want to tell their friends their videos have great ratings. The ratings make your videos show up more or less often in other peoples screen, so ratings can help make a video more or less popular and the problem is that this guys are having their videos targeted by religious people who disagree with them and use these "votebots" to place hundreds of votes, basically cheating!

  • I think its more a matter or principle with fair open discussion. like if someone steal £1 off you, you still be mad not cause of the amount but because someone stole esp. if the person was a freind.

  • Doesn't YouTube delete spammers?

  • can I go to the doctor and get a pill for that ???

  • I got hit by this votbot 2 days ago...all my vlogs went to one or two stars overnight...I had no idea until about 10 minutes ago what had happened or how it happened..thank you for this information! Some of my vlogs only had around 8 votes total and overnight even the most resent jumped to 50 !!! votes. Im not even that popular!

  • I got hit

  • I'm a Christian, but I just got hit by the votebots. I thought they were only over-zealous Christians trying to silence atheist vloggers. Guess they don't discriminate against any group anymore.

  • You should add my channel to the list of attacked channels :P

  • that was an informative video

  • Please keep fighting, Thunderf00t.

  • I think mine has been hit also. In the past couple of days it just drops off on the rating on my primary video of "GUN CONTROL ROCK". Everyone Loves this video but I'm almost positive they are blocking it somehow.

  • My videos got hit too. No data, because I don't have that many views to start with. Nothing really shows in the ratings insight. I had 1 one-star on April 8 on my recent video, and one on April 1.

  • PART 1: I have a great idea. Let's write a program that can detect attack in progress and block them. I don't know why YouTube didn't think about that before. It's very simple.

    You need two things: number of ratings and number of views. Both you can get from the YouTube APIs.

  • Why not just create a votebot that votes them back up?

  • @ StyxHexenhammer6: Now there's a thought. Let's spam the victims with benevolent votebots to negate the heretic votebots.

  • It wouldn't be spamming so much as reparations

  • Actually it's still spamming because we'll be flooding everyone with 5 stars. But what else can be done to ruin the heretics' attempts at sabotaging free speech?

  • True.

    The problem is all the votebots I have found either require money or don't seem to work. I can't figure out tube booster so I am stuck making sock accounts instead.

  • what are votebots?

  • basically votebots are programs that vote many many times.

  • a peace of software that can cast many ratings on a single video, usually for one user that impossile as u can only rate (1-5stars) once per log in. these programers are finding ways around this though. obviously theres good modivation as voting can increase or decrease the number of views a video will get. look at the "best rated' videos on youtube and ask yourself, does this make sense that it has thousands of 5star ratings? if not, a votebot is likely the cause.

  • Votebotes cant work alone since yotube only allows one rating per user every once in a while this means that Creationists have several hundred ready to attack pathetic how they waste their time destroying other videos when they can easily improve their own

  • Cretards making good videos? That would imply not just movie making skill on their part, but AN ACTUAL SUBJECT to make a video of (as opposed to the stuporstitious Bull Shiite they normally spew.).

  • Nice that you tell us how to prove it (not that I need to prove it on my channel, with 3 votes in total or something xD)

    And nice link, been searching for such a program a while ago :D

  • The cowardly fucktards hit my channel (finally) in the last day or two. Several videos that had up to this date had 4.5 star or higher ratings have suddenly dropped to 2 or so. These dates don't show up in insight yet, but should show up tomorrow or Thursday.

  • Look at my comment on VFX' video, VenomFangX Street Preaching Week #1. If you read down first and then to the right, you'll see that it says "Fuck you.".

  • Please rate my videos 5 stars ***** is better than just *.

  • what is vote bot? i've been looking...no one says exactly what one is

  • It's a little program that keeps rating videos one star... or five, depending on who's side it is.

  • my videos are getting 1 starred both my bots and haters.

  • AM ATTACK AN DESPERATE NOW,plz help me,if you look at my channel..

  • My friend, jetsfan3161 was hit by a votebot. He has awesome videos and he's like an older brother to me. Please, if you all could please rate his videos 5 stars I would really appreciate that. His channel is in my subscriptions box on my page. Also, sub to him. People like him are under-rated but talk so much sense into senseless famous people. HELP MAKE HIM FAMOUS! WE NEED SOME SMART FAMOUS PEOPLE!

  • "My friend was hit by a votebot. He has awesome videos and he's like an older brother to me..."

    Man, the way people talk about being "hit by a votebot" makes it sound like they're being hit by a truck or something...The way he says this, you'd think the guy had died XDD

  • lol!!! OK! vote his vids 5 stars plz lol :D you rock!

  • Votebots are for cowards and weaklings. If they were real men (or women, depends) they would have made good videos...

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  • Hear!  Hear!

  • support me i got voteboted =[

  • It's just YouTube........

  • ..amazing people care about this kind of thing...

  • Votebotes cant work alone since yotube only allows one rating per user every once in a while this means that Creationists have several hundred ready to attack pathetic how they waste their time destroying other videos when they can easily improve their own

  • or 1 guy has sat down and made hundreds of accounts...

  • Ok, so a user creates multiple accounts? Wouldn't you think Youtube would be able to set up something to identify these accounts? Or do they use multiple addresses? Hmmm. Do you suppose Youtube has software that can track who visited an account in a fashion that would show coordination of account activities? Are those who could do this the ones selling the votebots?

  • The creationists do not have any proof that their god and bible is real. When we tell them this or prove them wrong in some way, they get angry, they make threats of hell and vote down anything that disagrees with their fantasy gods.

    It's like a child who has a temper tantrum when his parents tell him Santa Claus is not real.

  • what are votebots?

  • KingofVaginas:

    People usually use programs where multiple sock accounts will target a video and hit it with many one star ratings. I had about 5 ratings for each of my videos, then woke up the next day to see that there were over 40 ratings, and all my videos dropped down to 1 or 1.5 stars.

  • i get it

    whats a sock account?

    just a dumby account?

  • Yeah, just accounts created for the sheer purpose of voting. You'll see some of the less secure people on YouTube with them.

  • See my latest video for proof of the latest vote-bot attacks.

  • Reverse everything you just said and you'd be right. Thunderf00t makes that nerd in the glasses look like an intellectual midget.. how could you watch both of their videos and come to a different conclusion unless you're an idiot yourself?

  • Wow, people can't find better things to do with their lives? So they have to attack people's channel's on YouTube. Sad. Very, very sad.

  • Apparently just posting an opinion here can tempt these bastards.

    I have a music channel with a paltry 200 subs - not political or theological and I've been hit as well. All vids voted down, all in just a few hours.

    It's childish and insulting.

    Way to prey on the weak when your arguments don't work you crappy bastards.

  • My atheist channel got raped by votebots... Pathetic... I encourage everyone to vote on my videos and rate them to counter the effect.

  • what is a vote bot?

  • Not sure, but i would say, its computer program which makes "spam" votes for videos

  • Thunderf00t:

    Great vid. Exposing these cowards is more than emotionally satisfying, it's a public service.

    I'm certain the votebotting is what Christ would do.

    (Sarcasm, for those who are sarcasm impaired...)

  • i left my computer running at home when i went to work. my channel is small, 37 subs, and most of my videos had less than 100 views. i still have the wondow open now with the pre-bot ratings and view numbers, and a new window showing the bot attack. most videos have been hit with 30 1stars, in some cases with NO rise in the viewer number, a few vids were hit with 40. the window of opportunity was about 5 or 6 hours. i have kept track of new subscribers, maybe there's a mole?

  • I got attacked last night! Someone please help me!

  • JimboVids:

    How very Christian of you. You do realize there's a difference between someone not enjoying a video and rating it 1-star, and a computer program going to videos to vote many, many times 1-star because of the message of the video?

  • +5 for the good guys. ;) Keep 'em comin thunder!

  • okay do you know how many Christian videos are rated low? and its just cuz atheists disagree with their material. i honestly dont see that many atheist videos being rated low; in fact, theyre rated 5's. you castigate creationists for having some votebot activity going on, but thats not to say that atheists dont have it going on either. i guess hypocrisy exists on both sides

  • Thanks for all your work Thunderfoot! I got attack this week, but I figured you get a lot of emails regarding this...

  • is it just me or is anyone else receiving videos u have already previously viewed in the subscriptions box, some videos have popped up like 3,4 times. is that happening to anyone else?

  • Yeah that happened to me too

    it's very irritating

  • they're basically indirectly admitting they lost

  • Wow, I've never meet someone so obessed with star ratings. Really TF? Thats the issue you seem to never let go? STAR RATINGS?? weak...

  • if a video ratings get low enough; it gets "buried", or lost among the thousands of videos in Youtube... no one will be able to view your material.

  • I don't think TF is on danger of being buried, even with low ratings. Look at VFX, he disables ratings and he greats great view counts. (personally, it just comes off as bitchy and its annoying)

  • that's true... but when the bots attack his accout was in danger, and everyone else that was targeted by these programs. he succeed in evading the attack by urging his viewers to rate and favorite the videos preventing the burial of the videos around. the reason that PCS is still famous is the fact by disabling the ratings he makes the videos stand still and viewable to an insane christian audience and prevents bad influential comments...

  • u suck

  • OMG I had that happen to one of my videos I was so sad I thought it was an attack from the opponents of Same sex marriage as my video was on how Canada has changed since same sex marriage

  • good work

  • Thunderf00t, you have votebots too...only they are in the form of mindless fans.

  • "Thunderf00t, you have votebots too...only they are in the form of mindless fans. "

    Suggesting that someone vote for a video is not against the rules, but creating hundreds of dummy accounts for the sole purpose of burying a video is.

    Even your sad attempt at poking Thunderf00t is horridly wrong, as neither Thunderf00t, nor anyone in the League of Reason has EVER suggested that all of us DOWN RATE a video.

    Mindless? You're the pot calling the kettle black.

  • "Suggesting that someone vote for a video is not against the rules, but creating hundreds of dummy accounts for the sole purpose of burying a video is."

    It may not be against the rules, but one star voting a video that you didn't even watch is just about as respectable as using a vote-bot.

  • Thank you...I could have saved myself some time writing a response to Weedgreen had I seen your post first.

  • "Suggesting that someone vote for a video..."

    I'll give you the benefit of the doubt and attribute that straw man to my lack of specification. To clarify, I am not criticizing people who vote, I am saying that anyone who 5 stars a tf00t video or 1 stars an anti-tf00t video without having watched the actual video, or does so based solely on loyalty to tf00t, displays an abysmal lack of individual thought.

    "League of Reason" Lol...to the Logicmobile.

    "pot calling the kettle black" oh? how so?

  • A better non-biased statement would be that it is bad to just 1 or 5 star any video without watching it, and if it is based on a request then they are not acting individually.

    However even this general statement does not cover all bases because, there is botting going on that is focused at 1 starring atheist videos. Because the botting is causing a ratings loss due to less people, 5 starring a video one would normally 3 or 4 star is the only thing (short of botting), to offset it.

  • I guess it's a state of mind issue. Personally, I'd wager that anyone who's willing to join Tf00t in his anti votebot campaign wouldn't normally 3 or 4 star a video of his to begin with but w/e. My original comment was directed at the whole "Howtheworldworks" controversy, specifically, anyone who decided to use their vote as a weapon to defend their leader.

  • pfft. Mindless ? Or people who dont beleive in fairytales as accurate as Shrek :P

  • see, that's the thing, mindless followers come in all shapes and sizes. People are kidding themselves if they think denouncing religion makes them immune to groupthink and blind discipleship. Read some of the comments that are left on "Howtheworldworks'" videos and see for yourself. A large portion of tf00t's lackey army are as inane and shortsighted as the most petty & dogmatic of creationists.

  • I guess some people just can't handle the truth, right Marshal?

  • that's because the are cut from the same cloth

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  • what are Votebots?

  • like these virtual accounts that you can send to go and do an action, In this case it is voting on youtube videos. This explanation is very simplified however, you should try google for more answers.

  • Votebots are accounts created in the hundreds by someone who intends to give a video a one star rating hundreds of times.

    Votebots just goes to show how creationists have absolutely no life outside of their parents basement.

  • Damn youtube and it's April fools joke!

  • shit this is back to front

    still dont know

  • why is everything backwards/upside down

  • April Fools.

  • If by shit you mean, containing intellectual arguments that aren't taught at "Patriot University"

    yup

  • However even at "Patriot University" we know that shit = fecal matter. Maybe that's why you can't make a good argument - you never learned the definition of shit.

  • These attacks are utterly pathetic, really. How weak is your position if think you have to silence your opponents, because their voices are too dangerous, and you really have no a legitamate arguement?

  • Have you ever thought that not as many people hold your views as you think? I'd hate to be the person that has to fit you with a hat.

  • A sharp spike in 1 star votes is fairly obvious to detect. A video that isn't well liked will consistently have low ratings instead of consistently high ratings with 1000 1 star ratings coming in a day.

  • A sharp spike like that does not necessarily mean a vote bot. As someone that has done internet traffic tracking for years, I can tell you that just the right keyword combinations can trigger traffic from many people with the same view point. And if this video ranks high when those keywords are used it can trigger a spike of viewers with that viewpoint. Those kind of spikes can happen at any time, and mean nothing.

  • Yes, but with many videos on the same subject being produced by multiple sources?

  • absolutely - many of these videos actually use some of the same keyword combinations in the descriptions - which could cause the same spikes.

  • While possible I find it incredibly unlikely that such a spike would occur through basically all evolution videos at nearly the same time.

  • "Have you ever thought that not as many people hold your views as you think? I'd hate to be the person that has to fit you with a hat."

    Instead of accusing him of being bigheaded why don't you make your own videos refuting his.

    I doubt you'd cut the mustard.

  • I have a life - If I tried to refute every video from every person that thinks their flawed opinion is gospel, then I'd be on youtube all day. I don't want to end up being an angry person like - AmazingAtheist, Thunderf00t, or any of the others that make a futile attempt at converting people to their opinions. I watch a few videos a day - leave comments - and then get on w/ a real life.

  • "a real life"......A real life is not World of Warcraft! I keed, I keed. But really, thunderfoot seems like a pretty calm rational guy, why would you say he is angry?

  • cause common sense dictates that when people fuck you over, you get angry. he's very good at keeping calm, but he's pissed as hell.