Why has youtube restricted the views on Ron Paul videos?

[ScottishRP fan]

what is going on?

why are the video views permantly at 301 or around the 7000 mark?

are they trying to stop videos going viral?

does anyone have an explanation for this?

 

[Christopher_RC]

I hear they move the videos to a different server when they hit 301 and it takes time for the view count to update.

 

[ScottishRP fan]

I hear they move the videos to a different server when they hit 301 and it takes time for the view count to update.

does this process take days?

 

[TwoJ]

does this process take days?

Sometimes yea

 

[Eric39]

Don't worry, happens all the time.

Note that most new related videos period tend to have only around 300 votes.

Don't quite know why they do it, just that they do.

 

[MsDoodahs]

I don't buy that.

The top "dogs" at utube don't want the status quo to change.

 

[Nubraskan]

All videos do this.

 

[ScottishRP fan]

bullshit. im not buying it. 301 is a ridiculously low number

 

[robmpreston]

I don't buy that.

The top "dogs" at utube don't want the status quo to change.

Give it up. This isn't new, it always happens on youtube.

 

[gosmo]

I don't buy that.

The top "dogs" at utube don't want the status quo to change.

Every single video on youtube does this.

 

[Pete Kay]

Youtube does this with all their videos. It's to stop people from creating videos and and spamming them for views.

 

[frickettz]

It's part of youtube's algorithm to fight view count fraud. They want to make sure all the views/likes/comments are natural and organic and not part of some scheme using bots/computers to fake views.

It's not only Ron Paul videos, but ALL viral videos go through this process as well.

 

[Kluge]

Oddly, the view count appears correctly when listed in YT's search function, so during transition, why can't they just poll the data from wherever they're getting view count display on search results?

- But this is definitely not limited to RP videos.

 

[TheViper]

It's part of youtube's algorithm to fight view count fraud. They want to make sure all the views/likes/comments are natural and organic and not part of some scheme using bots/computers to fake views.

It's not only Ron Paul videos, but ALL viral videos go through this process as well.

I am quoting this because it is accurate.

I work in the Internet industry and can vouch for this answer.

 

[FreeTraveler]

It's a media plot, I tell ya!

(Yeah, that's sarcasm. This is a well-known issue, it's explained in the YouTube FAQs, and it happens to all videos.)

 

[TakeThePowerBack]

The highest viewed video I have (140,000 views) is footage of aerial coverage over Tuscaloosa AL after the tornado. It was stuck at 300 for 4 days, then it was up to 100k after that. It is just a glitch in youtube's method of verifying original views. You can see the vid below in my link.

 

[ScottishRP fan]

fair enough, although the process does take an extraodinarly long time

there is videos from weeks ago that are still waiting for the servers to 'change'

 

[Jeremy Tyler]

Why do we constantly have to go through this? I understand some people are new to the process...but why do so many assume it's a conspiracy?

 

[tremendoustie]

Look folks, there's obviously bias in the media, but this sort of conspiracy stuff is 99% of the time just plain wrong.

 

[brushfire]

Maintaining statistics take lots of horsepower. They are not realtime -they are done in batch after a video gets so many hits.