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Re:YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on Yo... by nyanpasu64 on Monday April 04, 2022 @11:09PM (#30914907)
Meanwhile Google deletes on-topic comments with links after 5 minutes, but lets the spambots through. Actually detecting spam can't be any worse than not doing so. If you don't want to detect spambots this way, why not send possibly-spammy comments to the channel owner's moderation queue instead of memory-holing them?
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Re:YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on Yo... by BlueTemplar on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @07:18AM (#30917566)
It's even worse than that : I had some comments deleted but others shadowbanned (!), merely from using timestamp links to the same video and/or posting multiple comments and/or writing long comments ! (And I first noticed it about a year ago.)

P.S.: Even the deleted comments are deleted silently.

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Re:YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on Yo... by kingcharles on Tuesday April 05, 2022 @12:41AM (#30915363)
Right. They already have a system monitoring for spam comments. 99% of the time I make a valid, useful comment on a YouTube video it gets marked as spam and never shows up.

They basically need to do the exact opposite of whatever they are currently doing.

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