>If Youtube devs could see that significant amounts of dislikes were coming from users who hadn’t watched the video, or could identify other statistical aberrations, it stands to reason that such abuse would actively interfere with the legitimate functionality it was intended for and/or work against the interests of YouTube, advertisers, as well as authors and viewers.
But if you can see that these dislikes were from trolls, then you can account for that and not have the algorithm register them.
But if you can see that these dislikes were from trolls, then you can account for that and not have the algorithm register them.