Youtube

Youtube is really really frustrating me, they locked some of our early videos (for forging fame) view counts almost immediately after we posted them (within a day or two).  Apparently this is a very common problem as others have voiced similar concerns.  

heres some recent threads on the youtube forums that I scrounged up with a quick google

http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/300a2c2bf0edb712/4895f9aa640a28c9?lnk=raot

http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/9657f303539beef4/6335b90e95f88e08?hl=en-US&lnk=raot

http://help.youtube.com/group/youtube-issues/browse_thread/thread/d6a6c6983add2cb0/b4b1edd61b0d63e1?hl=en-US&lnk=raot

Heres a few videos talking about the problem 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t40J7zkAh0g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDUDlKoNEqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytv22-_M3fY

We still have not heard back from youtube but several general comments are now pointing to youtubes new defense mechanisms to view count hacking, which makes sense as youtube claimed they were implementing new security a day or two before people started complaining about this problem.  

The best solution to the problem I have seen is highlighted in this video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4ifuUmHbKI

In response to this unfairness on youtubes part our group tried to branch out our submissions with posts to metacafe and flickr.