Votebot Attacks - Aftermath And Pwnage

[oztronix]

It's true:

It's only helping those against whom such attacks are designed...

[amorphousguy]

Votebots are for cowards.

[CreationistVotebot99]

*gives video 50,000 one-star votes.

[SimCity4IE]

I was targeted on some of my videos :'(

[animesoulgamer]

how do i make a votebot????

[MikeRoch6969]

hoisted by their own peterd

[olijeolinije]

do you get money for votes? I dont understand why does it metter have you got 1, 3 or 5 stars? I subscribed on FFreethinker videos bicause Atheist Expirience, or for example at Thunderfoot channel, and for pass 2 weeks all of you are blablaing about this.

why do you care about this?

sorry for bad english, its my second language.

[someguy2525]

I think its more of a joke

[AmaraDark]

It's a dirty and rather lame trick. Votebot attacks spam downrate videos the attacker disapproves of

(usually going after people speaking out about certain religions activities) The purpose is due to YouTube working on a heirarchy,.

If someone does a search of 'atheism' a 1 star video (due to votebot) will be at the very end of the search.

[olijeolinije]

tnx for the answer.

we had similar problem in one croatian forum, few years ago.about 20 or 30 neofacists and ultranacionalist came and started spaming on every possible topic, we tried to alarm owner of the forum and technical support, bicause those people were baned and cloned again and again, but nothing hapened, they get money from clicking, and to them it doesnt metter what is going on, or what is the quality of the forum.

I hope that wont happen to channels like this one.

[abassett22]

your english is great. never appologize for it again.

[olijeolinije]

I must apologize for that also :))

[ZajedMusic]

ay my music lol, thanks alot

[2DRonaldo]

I need me a Vote bot attack!!!!

Get me more subscribers, attack my channel PLEASE!!!!!!!

XD

[EvolvedAtheist]

Thanks for the compilation of announcements and the list of affected channels, FFree.

It might be a good idea to switch the annotation about the suspension of the JREF account to his announcement of reinstatement.

[AtheistChase]

These people, theists i presume, fail on the scale of fractal.

[ZarlanTheGreen]

Thanking vote bot users, in anything other than a sarcastic sense, is wrong.

It's the thought that counts, after all.

Then again, I suspect that many on this video, are only thanking the vote boters in a sarcastic sense. (especially geffel)

[EZ4U2NOME]

Just when you thought you where thinking ..you all "fucking" failed miserably.

[EZ4U2NOME]

Sham wow goes fucking off...@ FFreeze tinker.

[AlmightScoop]

hahaha. Great stuff. It has often been said that communities develop solidarity in the face of adversity. Never has this been more true.

[nitarna]

lol

[hellshade2]

thank you very much freethinker and thxs to all that subbed me.

i now total 325 subs which is 150 more than i had before the latest round of attacks :)

[homer8777]

my cousin was walking out of 7-11 with a pack of winstons and a cherry slushy when a votebot jumped out from behind a ford focus and raped her----true story.

[fenster666]

damn upside down youtube.

[Arcterious]

How are the vote bots helping bring traffic to the videos?

[JRChadwick]

Great job. I knew this would happen as soon as I heard of the votebot attacks.

Idiots.

[mcfaggot765]

pure win!

[thesecondlenin]

Lol, self pownage!

Gotta love them creationists!

[RexFordVII]

Makes me so happy that we pulled together to make this shit BACKFIRE so well.

Thanks FFree Thinker for helping organize, you did a good thing.

[Clausfarre]

I think I will post my first video ever just to attract a votebot attack and feel noticed.

[Kattarina98]

I subscribed to the whole lot - something I never did before because I did not want YouTube to keep track of my interests, but I guess this issue is more important.

[autismboy]

Awesome.. simply awesome

[xXAkridXx]

Thank you voteboters!!!

[thinkppl]

ooh this is such a perfect example of

" saying something is wrong. and then everyone does it."

[BoogieNite77]

BAAAHAHAHAAHAH @ 2 new houses SHYT!!! how can i get botted!?!?!? epic self PWNAGE!!! OR??? is this the a case of the art of war? act as your own enemy to unite your poeple..... either way PHUKIN HALAR!!!!!

[ZeroLogics]

lol, Votebots are definately doin the face palm

[Techra]

life of luxury thanks to votebots lol!

[Sanngot]

lol. Epic fail for the votebot users!

[PoseidonSimons]

lol powned

[GodWantsBlood]

Hey, looks like it all turned out for the better.

I kind of knew this would happen.

Votebot fail.

[KrazyTea8]

Aw man Nathanforst1 is such a drama queen.

[GodKillerAtheist]

Aww No one ever vote bots me =( 

I have the power of "I don't give a fuck!" holding them back I guess LOL

plus I have not very many videos till I get my dam web cam to fucking work never buy logetec if you have vista they suck ass

[KrazyTea8]

Once you go Mac you never go back

:P

[GodKillerAtheist]

I got a iPod and its awesome but the software is so shitty like Itunes just changed how they display I wanted it in text and they just up and removed that and made it so you have to either use cover flow (which I hate!) or scroll through all your shit (so slow) I'd hate to be stuck with a operating system like that.

vista's not bad on a dual core 64 bit 2ghz with 2 gigs of ram and 250gig hard disk nothing special just have to turn off areo in vista and it flies

[CiphersSon]

LINUX 4 the win! I have 6 boxes runing right now ubuntustudio,backtrack3 on a eeepc,a hP touchsmart(vista64) a game rig with nlited xp,and dual booting rigs with xp an ubuntu

i built a hackintosh once but macs are to restrictive for my taste.

[Grymyrk]

epic music

[jussts]

You gotta wonder if these votebot idiots are going to stop now that it's obvious (like really, really obvious... painfully fucking obvious) that these attacks simply do not work. I mean, are they even capable of learning a lesson?

[bckilldz]

This is all good. The viewers are rallying for the often unheard voices of reason. But I shall play the devils advocate. Who is to say that this latest rash of attacks was not perpetrated by one of the often unheard voices of reason, or anyone who shares their general worldview, and understands the implications such an attack would have? Has anyone been prosecuted for these crimes?

[DINDRAGON]

Thank you for your contribution to the atheists' channel mr. Maximus Whateverius! ;)

[NLPNVC]

Thanks for all thinks, I random subscribed to about 20 or so. Cheers!

[VivekisV]

WE WIN!!! :D

[VeritasLiber]

This is awesome to hear :D

The age-old lesson that never seems to get learned by those who feel oppression is an effective tool.

[andymcgaha]

Called it.

[Rowdyeh]

So any vote is better than no vote and the more these votebots attack the more people subscribe! Total FAIL mr/mrs votebotter, you lose! Big time!

[DGHamma]

...Maybe someone on our side is voteboting people so that they can get attention from everyone..?

No no no I love these guys I'm just saying it MIGHT- MIGHT- be a possibility.

[dackjaniels555]

Great Job on the video FFreethinker!

That was freaking uplifting!

This is so great! I'm glad people are doing the same as me and subbing to everyone that is being hit by the bots!

[Faustuss1]

Ownage!

[GriffinPilgrim]

Oh yeah!

[1Weemaryanne]

YEAH US!

[MistaJussu]

HAHAHAHAHH!! Awesome! tripled the subs! =D Nice work, votebotters! xD

EPIC SELF-PWNAGE!

[dragon83uk]

There's only one suitable word for this vid and it's one I don't like to use very often - mainly because of it's actual seriousness but here goes:

EPIC

TRULY DAMN EPIC!!

Well done FFreethinker!

[limpnail]

YEAH!

[onigojira]

Boy I gotta tell ya, I love these votebots. I often forget to go looking for new people to watch (I still dont have Rabid Ape yet) despite my wish to see more people. Instances like this give me a great opportunity of seeing more people which I only hear mentioned regularly or havent even heard of before. In the next few days I suspect my number of subscriptions will sky rocket as I look in to all of these people. Thank you for this video, FFreeThinker.

[PaganRon]

Well I am glad to see that the attack did something to bring like minded people toghter. In the end all the attack did was bring people toghter, thats nice to see.

[educatedAtheist]

hey somebody vote bot me! I need the promotion

[TimeLord6646]

lol go tell some Muslim channel that they would be glad 2 because they are retards lol!

[michaelispan]

Agreed!

I Have not been ,

Targeted ,Dam it. But I have subed

to a # new friends

[hanzo138]

Almost makes me wonder if an atheist is behind all of this. That would be genius if it was.

[OctaviaW]

Super montage of thanks:)

[Yarcofin]

70+ subscribers all in one go? Damn, I need to be attacked by votebots :(

[Cypresspimp]

i gave em my two cents about the account suspension

[anthonzi]

Geffel is lulzy xD

[Darkaero199]

Violet sounds like sarah palin

[rayruiz12345]

Gf votebots

[thorungal]

Nice, I've put my mail through to youtube on the JREF suspension thing, not sure how much that will help though.

[JakobAmbrose]

nice.

[Mind0verM4tter]

lol

[pandaman5193]

What if he knew this would happen so that's why he did it.

[tupacthug4life]

This video is great! Thanks for making it! I wish I could see the looks on the voteboters face!

[DaDaWgLLS]

I wanna be attacked by a vote bot... :(

[VaginalTsunami]

hahahahahahahahahahaha stupid creationists tactics are backfiring ahahaha.

[JonathanClement140]

Could you guys subscribe to my channel? I never got vote-botted, so my channel is just going to waste here! DX

[VaginalTsunami]

You have lots of subs

[JonathanClement140]

I only have 142! That's just sad! DX

[VaginalTsunami]

Thats not sad. Anything over 100 is sccessful.

[JonathanClement140]

But I'm just 2 weeks away from my 2nd anniversary of creating my account!

[VaginalTsunami]

ohhh thats not good then.

but don't feeel too bad, i've been suspended more then once by the fascists pencil pushers at YT HQ.

[qanazir]

This is a good way to get atention to lesser channels.

Thanks votebots!

[ZhangyXD]

god damn those low lifes

[Managasm]

I was wondering, how do they find out that it is theistic votebots?

[ZhangyXD]

who else would feel that self righteous

[Managasm]

Well again, that's my point ... how do you KNOW that these vote-bot attacks are made by 'self-righteous' people? It is possible that atheists could be vote-boting their own videos to earn subscribers, ratings, views, etc. It also rallies the atheist community almost every time one happens. I just don't know why so many of you immediately jump to the conclusion that it must be some stupid creationist who just doesn't get it. It could be more then that.

[theatheistgal]

votebot ourselfs are you joking? There is no way. My channel was hit, it was only a few hours and this votebot killed all the ratings of what videos I got. I want my ratings so people will watch my videos more. People skip videos with bad ratings.

[Managasm]

Right, but the end result is that all these videos with bad ratings end up with a huge rise and better ratings because of the support from other users. It just seems so ludicrous to me to assume that it could only be detractors.

[Clausfarre]

You just debunked a conspiracy theory! Well done.

[theatheistgal]

My point was. I really do not think "atheists" are hitting videos. I noticed there are some christians mixed in with us. What was noted by another user what those christians and us have in common was videos that may have bashed fundimentalist christians. So whom every it is, didnt like the message from our channels, including the christian ones. maybe the votbot in question isnt christian.. there are other religions.

[ZhangyXD]

man you need some common sense

[Managasm]

Why?

[ZhangyXD]

my point exactly you don't even know why you need it

[Managasm]

I'm asking why do you think I need it, or for that matter, what makes you think I don't already have it?

[ZhangyXD]

why do you think i think you need it?

common atheists vote botting themselves?

seriously..

[Managasm]

I wasn't saying that they were, I said it was possible.

[ZhangyXD]

not even close

[Managasm]

...What's not even close?

[ZhangyXD]

jesus christ...

[ZhangyXD]

yes maybe jesus christ did it

[Managasm]

What the hell are you talking about? Stop replying to me if you're not going to be clear about what you're saying.

[ZhangyXD]

They are both possibilities I'm just pointing out the improbability.

[ScientiaVeritasEtLux]

Haha, I know. I've been thinking about that too. It's entirely possible that some of the more recent votebots were from the atheist crowd. Which, while being pretty dishonest, would actually be kind of clever if this is, in fact, the case. But, I don't think this would be the same thing as if a theist did it because instead it would be a way of showing how much they love one of the youtube user, rather than dishonestly trying to drag down a user. n_n

[Bueller007]

So everyone knows, the James Randi Educational Foundation YouTube account has been suspended. Check out dprjones's channel for instructions on how to contact YouTube.

[sparrow111260]

Wow!

Somoe votebot my channel!!

[melwap]

Yeah baby! Stupidity backfires so bad bitches!!

[godfree2canada]

sure its not captoawesome votebotin'

[theradioschizo]

damn, I wish that I had been hit by a votebot, lmao.

[JonathanClement140]

I wasn't votebotted... But would you guys subscribe to me, anyway? I do funny chick tract readings! =D NEXT PERSON TO SUBSCRIBE WILL BE #140! Same number as my channel! =P

[DemonAuraProductions]

lol, I actually want to get votebotted now.

[AsG1989]

i was nobody until i was votebotted, look at me now :D lol.

[jacobromu]

Randi? Really?

[Moosekid]

Lol owned.

[Akatam0t0ma]

James Randi's account got suspended? NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO­OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! :-0 :'-(

[panthera50]

LOL that sure backfired. ;-)

[dorbie]

Can someone please votebot me.

[fauyd]

The internet is serious business.

[AuntieDiluvian]

VFX must be turning in his grave - metaphorically speaking!

[pyrix]

If only that idiot was dead.

[AuntieDiluvian]

Seems you're nobody till you've been votebotted!

[keithrockerboblewis]

So, how do I get in on this action?

[nickrd182]

This is all part of a grand master plan to save the planet. The votebotters foresaw this, and they intended it! They want to help the atheists overcome the theists so that the Garzons from planet Garzack won't destroy yet another planet full of primitive, unenlightened beings who believe in a god (Earth)! This is just their next step in preserving Earth! Hurray votebotters!

[0Xian0]

Subbed everyone in the list.I'll get around to rating more again soon.

[Vogter2100]

HAHahahahaha... Votebotuser PWNED!!! :-)

[w0g4life]

"Backfired like a nuclear bomb"  :D

[DarkTheAtheist]

400+subs "thanx votebot"

I cant breath its so funny, Well done to all!!!!!

[ContinuumXT]

You were on the previous attack right? I think so, because that is the reason i subbed to you. Anyway, you have been quiet. Are pondering on world domination in the lab brain?

[DarkTheAtheist]

I ent been attacked this time, I've contacted DMCA about that for reasons I wont go into, but if u look on my page ull see y i have been inactive.

[DarkTheAtheist]

*DMCAabuse channel

[enigmatically]

wow, it almost seems like all these channels fabricated a "votebot attack" to get a bunch of new subscribers.

[rednecktrucker1969]

We are stronger, we are resolved, we are HUMANITY!

Let's keep this up and someday this world might be a place that we can be proud of.

[cheeekamoomoo]

Huzzah!!

That statement... *bows* I am not worthy!!

[SuperFlyNB]

FFreeThinker

My Thanks to you....

[StarDragon1955]

This will keep the fundies Face Palming for a while! XD

[VioletCosmonaut]

Thank you, FFreeThinker! : )

[pnoozi]

LOL failbot -- everyone gained subs lmao

[cheeekamoomoo]

I wasn't even hit and I gained subs, lol.

[JLProud]

Well done!

[Hopeful71]

Many predicted this; awesome that it actually worked.

Somewhere there is a creationist crying

[MrBungle251981]

This vid makes me feel all fussy and warm inside. Well done everyone! :)

[ananiasacts]

Don't morally bankrupt people help us to evolve a more robust infrastructure? Perhaps the best thing about religion is that it convinces so many people that the end justifies the means and this liberates them from the innate morality we all share that usually inhibits us from doing despicable things. If someone is capable of being persuaded to become amoral aren't we better off, over a the long term, in seeing that happen? We are as resourceful as we are now because of our many parasites.

[ogjimkenobi]

Ever since Thunderf00t featured my account as one of the ones most targeted by attacks, Ive gained more than Ive lost.

At first it really fucking sucked though, it all but completely crippled my account.

[Kimbahley]

Way to go FFreeThinker!

[snarf66]

Posted this video to my blog :)

[Censeo]

Free and open conflicts are a good thing, forcing people to think and make opinions on matters. Eventually, more reasonable positions will be held by more people in a free market of ideas. This process have fortunately now quickened the pace. The fundies show more clearly to everyone how loose the ground that they're standing on really is, when they resort to this kind of lame ass shit.

[Singebuggercat]

Thanks for doing this kind of vid, Ffree, heaps of good channels i never heard of for me to sub. (^_^)

[jstjake1]

yeah ffreethinker you did this.....

i found you via atheist experience....and the other atheists via you.......

so big hand for free!

[1140Cecile]

Well done FFreeThinker! It's bloody amazing how the votboter's tactics backfired. Thanks for your efforts.

[wimscheers]

The religious right never had a grasp how to wage a war, how to cope with blowback, how to see the bigger picture. What did they think would happen?

[kyokumajr]

It's just apparently they past bullet-proof strategies of burning people at stake & shutting them up no longer work

& they still haven't gotten that msg...

[Hamhark98]

Major backfire. It's almost as if the atheist community planned this. Hmm... Smells like a conspiracy theory.

[carrierexchange]

Go Free Speech!

[johnycannuk]

Is it me or does ExaggeratedElgy look like a young George Carlin?

[Noelotropolis]

Indeed...

[gonadmoore]

sounds like the enigma channel has been at it again. cheers

[hamieli]

Hmm... I think is the real definition of "self ownage" for the votebotters. :D

[hamieli]

Oh, OminousVoice already stated it. :) Nevermind..

[kyokumajr]

I'm starting to think the votebot stuff was an inside job ;) to make the skeptic community grow

[AncestorsTail]

Wouldn't explain the collateral damage to channels that don't deal with political or religious issues.

[kyokumajr]

Maybe the person doing it just wanted to up* them a bit? ;)

Or it was another epic fail by the morons trying to supress free speech.

[rulezdaworld0]

lol me too. I only have like 1 athiest vid but still

[shezario]

pls hit mine as well... I don't have any videos yet but still...

subed them all thats the least we can do.

also this seems to be the next step towards something ^^

[C0ct0pusPrime]

my ild channel had 1300+ (almost (1400) subs...since youtube shut down my old channel, my new one had gained about 1600 in less than 3 weeks.

so thanks, youtube! you shutting down my channel got me even more subs.

oh, and thanks to the bots too :)

[pxxner]

to be honest, i feel that you ffreethinker are quite responsible for a lot of the new subscribers a lot of these people have had. i probably wouldn't have found most of these people if it weren't from these compilation votebot videos. thanks for the new content!

[invisblchzbrgr]

Haha votebots self-pwnt :D

[Symos]

If they have to rely on votebots, it proves their arguments suck.

[kinglaffo]

Exactly.

[Redshift21]

Yep they tried to use logic to argue for god but failed epically, so now they are trying to bully people into silence, there can be no greater indication of their failure on a monumental scale than their return to their old bullying ways, thank science it's 2009 and not 1409 or they would be using fire rather than lame votebots.