About a month ago, I started uploading a few videos to the site, Youtube. Nothing special, just a few old computer game clips and some tribute shorts. I had been a watcher of the content on the site for some time and was interested to take part.
Naturally when looking for Videos to watch, I often clicked on the first that would come up in the searches. This now leads me to a disturbing discovery. The Videos that are ranked at the top are the ones that have been viewed or rated the highest by the viewer. This is fine, the best videos should be at the top...
BUT...............
It has become quickly apparent that people are viewing and rating their own videos to get them higher up in the searches. Often I would see a new video jump to about 200 views in half an hour, do nothing for a few days, then jump up by another huge margin. Hardly what you would call a natural pattern. Not only is this cheating, but I find it rather sad. It's kind of like, releasing a Pop Song, nobody buys it, so you buy all the copies yourself to get it to number one in the charts. The position is false, your Song is rubbish! What is the point?
Another thing I noticed is that some people would download a popular video that has maybe had a few Million views, re upload it to their own account and claim it as their own work. Pretty bad behaviour.
Well there it is. When Searching for something, don't necessarily click on just the top results you find.
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