NotTooDistantFuture

NotTooDistantFuture t1_iycpwi9 wrote

They still can’t figure out how to ban spambots from replying to every comment on a video saying “you won a prize. Contact me on telegram point emoji to username

This has been a widespread issue on almost every reasonably large video to the point that most creators have had to post to Twitter and even create videos saying it’s not them and they won’t do it. It’s still happening and they haven’t even mixed up the strategy. It’s the same damn messages spammed to every comment as a reply.

There are a hundred ways to combat this with very simple rules like no phone numbers in usernames, no replying to comments in a channel if your username matches the channels username at all, limiting number of replies one account can post to one video, limiting the number of same comments one account can post, actually responding to spam reports, giving tools to creators to limit types of interactions, cross correlating spam accounts to IP origins and browser user agents, flagging words like “contest” or “contact”.

They can’t even do this much and here you don’t even have to wrangle with the difficult question of “what is true?”.

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