YouTube Struggles To Fight Mobs Weaponizing Their 'Dislike' Button

'YouTube is no stranger to viewers weaponizing the dislike button, as seen by the company's recent Rewind video, but the product development team is working on a way to tackle the issue,' writes the Verge.

Suren Enfiajyan shares their report on a new video by Tom Leung, YouTube's director of project management.

'Dislike mobs' are the YouTube equivalent to review bombings on Steam -- a group of people who are upset with a certain creator or game decide to execute an organized attack and downvote or negatively review a game or video into oblivion. It's an issue on YouTube as well, and one that creators have spoken out against many times in the past.... Now, the company is planning to experiment with new ways to make it more difficult for organized attacks to be executed. Leung states that these are just 'lightly being discussed' right now, and if none of the options are the correct approach, they may hold off until a better idea comes along.

Ironically, Leung's video itself drew 2,654 'dislike' votes -- nearly double its 1,377 upvotes.

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