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"random hotkeys that I knew would trigger anything of the sort" Just single keywords? And which ones? The stories I've seen were about people posting just 共匪, a

by yorwba 6y ago

"random hotkeys that I knew would trigger anything of the sort" Just single keywords? And which ones? The stories I've seen were about people posting just 共匪, and honestly I'm not too bothered if comments that are just name-calling get deleted. If actual well-written criticism disappears, that would be another matter.

alfiedotwtf 6y ago
It was 5 random words that would I knew would be picked up by a dumb regex if it were done naively
- deweller 6y ago
  Which ones?
  - alfiedotwtf 6y ago
    Chinese trash wuhan tiananmen square
    - mytailorisrich 6y ago
      "Chinese trash" may have been caught by their anti-harassment/insult/racism filters. If that's the case, I'm glad. Youtube comments are too often absolutely awful. Or maybe the random set of words was caught as spam. There are plenty of content on China, Wuhan, or Tiananmen Square, so these words themselves obviously do not trigger anything.
      - alfiedotwtf 6y ago
        I've seen a clip of someone posting other random words that did not seem at all like harassment/insults/racist, and they were deleted too. Also, my video was of me playing with a synthesizer, so I'm not sure how my comment was anyway related to the video or China. Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan
        mytailorisrich 6y ago
        > Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan Which supports the hypothesis that "Chinese trash" was the problem and probably caught by anti-harassment/anti-insults filters. It does not imply that they accept insults against Taiwanese, but perhaps just that insults against Chinese were frequent enough to be added to automatic filters.
        yorwba 6y ago
        > Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan Do you want them to add "Taiwan trash" to their insult filter, or do you want to be able to freely post "China trash"? I think the former is more likely to be achievable. (Just generate enough "Taiwan trash" comments until adding it to the blacklist becomes worth the effort.)
JumpCrisscross 6y ago
> I'm not too bothered if comments that are just name-calling get deleted I am if it's done silently. Particularly at the behest of a government that's more than willing to flatten well-written criticisms alike.
- Aunche 6y ago
  YouTube has banned harassment for a while now. That why YouTube comments are mostly memes now instead of a complete cesspool like they used to be. I'm sure YouTube bans other political slurs like "libtard." That doesn't mean they're doing it at the behest of the Democratic Party.

by yorwba 6y ago

alfiedotwtf 6y ago

It was 5 random words that would I knew would be picked up by a dumb regex if it were done naively

deweller 6y ago
Which ones?
- alfiedotwtf 6y ago
  Chinese trash wuhan tiananmen square
  - mytailorisrich 6y ago
    "Chinese trash" may have been caught by their anti-harassment/insult/racism filters. If that's the case, I'm glad. Youtube comments are too often absolutely awful. Or maybe the random set of words was caught as spam. There are plenty of content on China, Wuhan, or Tiananmen Square, so these words themselves obviously do not trigger anything.
    - alfiedotwtf 6y ago
      I've seen a clip of someone posting other random words that did not seem at all like harassment/insults/racist, and they were deleted too. Also, my video was of me playing with a synthesizer, so I'm not sure how my comment was anyway related to the video or China. Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan
      - mytailorisrich 6y ago
        > Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan Which supports the hypothesis that "Chinese trash" was the problem and probably caught by anti-harassment/anti-insults filters. It does not imply that they accept insults against Taiwanese, but perhaps just that insults against Chinese were frequent enough to be added to automatic filters.
      - yorwba 6y ago
        > Edit: the comment wasn't deleted when it China was changed to Taiwan Do you want them to add "Taiwan trash" to their insult filter, or do you want to be able to freely post "China trash"? I think the former is more likely to be achievable. (Just generate enough "Taiwan trash" comments until adding it to the blacklist becomes worth the effort.)

JumpCrisscross 6y ago

> I'm not too bothered if comments that are just name-calling get deleted I am if it's done silently. Particularly at the behest of a government that's more than willing to flatten well-written criticisms alike.

Aunche 6y ago
YouTube has banned harassment for a while now. That why YouTube comments are mostly memes now instead of a complete cesspool like they used to be. I'm sure YouTube bans other political slurs like "libtard." That doesn't mean they're doing it at the behest of the Democratic Party.