Ask HN: Why isn't YouTube taking action against Roel Van de Paar?
Some context: Roel Van de Paar is a YouTube user who has been spamming the platform with videos for years. His channel has over 2 million videos, all of which are low-quality clips that are designed to appear in search results for technical terms, essentially just taking Stack Overflow questions and answers, all the videos start with the same pre-recorded clip of him talking for a bit and then it transitions into just the question text, and then to each answer.
Here's an example video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wyyzi6l7n1U
His spamming has had a negative impact on YouTube and it's search function.
So my question is then, why hasn't YouTube taken any action against him or his channel?
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Maybe, but no rules are broken, so no reason to act.
If it’s not valuable, it should get down ranked by its lack of value. But that’s not happening.
Demonetisation is the worst that YouTube will do to a channel - no money = no incentive to post.
But they very rarely ban a channel from posting.
Also, the people who review channels are just human. They can be arbitrary, random and unfair.
At the end of the day, if no one watches his videos then they won’t show up in the search results.
No, it's the same video clip every time, and then just text on a white background showing the question and answer, ripped straight from Stack(Overflow)