Comments on: Stat Gaming Services Come To YouTube

By: Nova Blog

Nova Blog — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 14:22:15 +0000

Tube Automator featured on techcrunch…

I just launched my new software Tube Automator on the 23rd of August and it gets mentioned at techcrunch on the same day…WOW!!
The downside is that the poster is a self righteous individual who thinks that gaming stats in this manner is wrong……

By: Chris Pirillo

Chris Pirillo — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 23:31:30 +0000

Hrm… only problem is, I don’t use anything other than YouTube?

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 19:59:53 +0000

Hi… you see we are good in creating projects. But we didnt get any big. At that time these guys give some real bucks. Thats why we are creating that (just for few bucks).

By: Scott Schiller

Scott Schiller — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 18:20:32 +0000

You can always count on the spammy types to try and crash a good party.

It appears the videos pull tons of “clicks” from spammy Blogspot posts which contain Javascript such that the page refreshes every 5 seconds, in this example:
youtube.com/watch?v=yoL4rE7De4c
Pretty lame, YT perhaps could filter reloads from the same machine to discourage this.

Comments appear to be repeated, and are perhaps pulled from other videos.

By: L.T.

L.T. — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 14:32:12 +0000

Hey Rajesh (& other web-ruining fucktards):

Slide under a gas truck and die.

By: David Mackey

David Mackey — Sat, 25 Aug 2007 02:42:10 +0000

Seems like the same concept as people are using to game digg.

By: Al Brown

Al Brown — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 19:53:33 +0000

Isn’t this sort of fraud? And if it does not fit the legal definition of fraud, perhaps the laws need to be updated so that this kind of crap can be prosecuted.

By: Jack

Jack — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 15:10:51 +0000

Rajesh,

Unlike your friend adder which is browser based http://www.tubeautomator.com is sockets based and blazing fast.

And your sales page is a blatant copy of michelle macphersons site http://www.tubeinator.com

By: LonelyBloggers

LonelyBloggers — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 14:06:06 +0000

This particular piece of software surfaced some months ago on YouTube and has created a huge spam problem that means I have to either turn comments off entirely or go through all of my comments requests each day.

I got an email from them as well and I emailed him back and told him to #%@ off — Huge pain in the ass…

By: Pieter

Pieter — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 11:37:25 +0000

The real losers are those that need to cheat a system to get attention. It’s amazing how some actually take pride in developing these tools. YouTube and MySpace too large? How about the quality of your video being too low?

By: Forumer™

Forumer™ — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 09:44:42 +0000

Yes Andy, “too large” indeed.

That’s why this is how I see it:

YouTube > Vimeo
MySpace > Virb

By: Andy

Andy — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:18:04 +0000

Is it really that much more difficult or takes more effort to create a good video than it does to use a product like this? My captcha muscle already gets

I think the most interesting thing about this is that it reveals one of the core problems with YouTube, or any site once it gets large enough: it’s TOO large, and any one item gets lost in the size. Additionally, as it becomes larger, the harder it is for people to “keep up” with what’s new. “most viewed” or “highest rated” are bandaids on the size problem in some respect. These problems breed these kinds of “gaming the system” solutions. Whoever comes up with a better way to judge popularity other than the simple scalar “most viewed” or a “liked/don’t like” voting system will clean up in this space.

By: Forumer

Forumer — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 06:09:47 +0000

lol, these scripts are costing us a lot of money in server utilization and bandwidth

Enough people run them, and we have DDOS on our hands.

By: Deals and Coupons

Deals and Coupons — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:43:36 +0000

Is this even a legit business?

By: Rajesh

Rajesh — Fri, 24 Aug 2007 05:34:01 +0000

You see already we introduced a software called Stealth Friend Bomber.
http://freeyout...riendadder.com/

It is a two in one bot, for myspace and youtube. And it is updated daily. I think this one is better than tube automator.

Rajesh