How stackoverflow maintains the number of views per post?

What's with the YouTube Views number freezing at 301 views on a few videos?

  • I have seen this many times, especially on a video that goes viral. The views are stuck a 301 views. even though the likes and/or dislikes on it are higher.

  • Answer:

    YouTube does not increase the number of views above 301 till all the views are validated. Videos on YouTube tend to generate revenue based on the number of views and in the recent past there have been way too many viral videos. Therefore inorder to verify the views are genuine (a million views from the same IP address isn't genuine) YouTube freezes the view count at 301 and once the views are verified, they get updated. As to the number 301, it seems quite arbitrary. May be 300 views is when the video starts generating some revenue (someone could throw some light on this part).

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Your question seems to have been answered, already. Anyway, to throw some light on the number of likes/dislikes on a video being higher than the view count - It's probably because view count is deemed more important than the number(this explains why only view counts are validated and not the number of likes/dislikes). Hope this helps :)

Ashique Mlore

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