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Re:Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube by notreallyserio on Monday December 13, 2021 @10:45PM (#29547978)
It would be sufficient to notify banned uploaders what rule(s) they broke and add a human-powered appeal process. With the former, the latter will be relatively cheap as reviewers and uploaders could address the specific issue.
Re:Ask HN: Best Way to Contact YouTube by rixed on Wednesday December 15, 2021 @12:15AM (#29562366)
With sufficiently complex systems to detect fraud, such as AI or that involve constraint optimisers, it is not always doable to isolate a single, clear parameter that is responsible for the data to be flagged. This is an issue also for them (source: been working on several complex rule based systems that exhibited this very problem).

As for the human powered appeal process, how to design it so that it is not spammed/abused as easily as the upload?

It's easy to explain everything away because of evil corporation, but those are also actual technical issues.