It has been like this for a couple of years now.
At first, it was clear that they were looking for certain words that I think they see as negative or sad, such as murder, kill, jewish, judaism.
Over time, it looked like they expanded to include more words such as virus, vaccine, things that are political.

Now, it seems to have gotten a lot more drastic where other youtube users tell me their posts have been deleted.

A simple Google search will give you plenty of answers.

(May 8, 2024 at 3:45 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: It has been like this for a couple of years now.
At first, it was clear that they were looking for certain words that I think they see as negative or sad, such as murder, kill, jewish, judaism.
Over time, it looked like they expanded to include more words such as virus, vaccine, things that are political.

Now, it seems to have gotten a lot more drastic where other youtube users tell me their posts have been deleted.

Maybe you should take this up with YouTube.

Boru

(May 8, 2024 at 3:45 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: It has been like this for a couple of years now.
At first, it was clear that they were looking for certain words that I think they see as negative or sad, such as murder, kill, jewish, judaism.
Over time, it looked like they expanded to include more words such as virus, vaccine, things that are political.

Now, it seems to have gotten a lot more drastic where other youtube users tell me their posts have been deleted.

Start inserting advertisers names/products (whether relevant or not{XBox}), see if your posts say.

https://advertisers.mediaradar.com/Top_Y...dvertisers

Seems there should be a long drawn out mathematical equation for this.

Are we talking about videos, community posts, or comments? Because I'm sure there's different explanations for all three.

(May 8, 2024 at 6:46 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Are we talking about videos, community posts, or comments? Because I'm sure there's different explanations for all three.

I am talking about comments. I'm not sure what a community post is.

There are other people who make comments and sometimes I reply to them. They reply back to me.

It seems to be random. Sometimes a long comment of mine gets through and sometimes not.
If a long comment doesn't go through, I break the post into multiple parts.
I reply with 2 sentences at a time.

At one point, the other person was doing the same thing as me.

(May 8, 2024 at 6:11 pm)brewer Wrote:

(May 8, 2024 at 3:45 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: It has been like this for a couple of years now.
At first, it was clear that they were looking for certain words that I think they see as negative or sad, such as murder, kill, jewish, judaism.
Over time, it looked like they expanded to include more words such as virus, vaccine, things that are political.

Now, it seems to have gotten a lot more drastic where other youtube users tell me their posts have been deleted.

Start inserting advertisers names/products (whether relevant or not{XBox}), see if your posts say.

https://advertisers.mediaradar.com/Top_Y...dvertisers

Interesting. It will take a few days to see how well this technique works.

(May 8, 2024 at 9:29 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote:

(May 8, 2024 at 6:46 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote: Are we talking about videos, community posts, or comments? Because I'm sure there's different explanations for all three.

I am talking about comments. I'm not sure what a community post is.

There are other people who make comments and sometimes I reply to them. They reply back to me.

It seems to be random. Sometimes a long comment of mine gets through and sometimes not.
If a long comment doesn't go through, I break the post into multiple parts.
I reply with 2 sentences at a time.

At one point, the other person was doing the same thing as me.

So, are we sure this is something distinct from normal comment moderation?

Community Posts would be something like this where the channel in question has something to say, but doesn't want to make a video about it.

(May 8, 2024 at 9:58 pm)Rev. Rye Wrote:

(May 8, 2024 at 9:29 pm)Ferrocyanide Wrote: I am talking about comments. I'm not sure what a community post is.

There are other people who make comments and sometimes I reply to them. They reply back to me.

It seems to be random. Sometimes a long comment of mine gets through and sometimes not.
If a long comment doesn't go through, I break the post into multiple parts.
I reply with 2 sentences at a time.

At one point, the other person was doing the same thing as me.

So, are we sure this is something distinct from normal comment moderation?

Community Posts would be something like this where the channel in question has something to say, but doesn't want to make a video about it.

Probably. Sometimes I post a comment on my own video as a test and it does not show up.
If certain words are present, such as jewish or judaism, it used to immediately delete them. This is probably because such words were naughty words.
If you reverse the word, it deletes them.
One solution is to insert a word in the middle of the naughty word. Example, let’s insert banana:
ju banana daism.

and the comment passes through.

Eventually, they seem to have expanded the naughty words list. For example, if I talk about a certain nVidia GPU, if I mention Dell, Microsoft, Pepsi, Coca-Cola in a single, since I have too many company names, the comment is probably evaluated as naughty.

The comments might show up for 3 s and then it is gone. I imagine the owner of the channel is not actively reading comments. It might be a popular channel with 10 or 100 comments made per minute.
With enough manipulation of my comment, it would pass through.

^^^^That was the past.
Currently, it is not clear to me what Youtube is doing, how they are evaluating a comment.
Sometimes, the comment disappears and 3 min later, it appears.

Sometimes, I write a long comment, 500+ words and it just passes through.
Other times, no matter how much I manipulate a comment, it doesn’t pass through.


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Do you use Youtube? Does it let your comments pass through all the time?