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I don't comment in the comment section either, but I sometimes read it and I often see people accusing the channel of deleting comments, and the responses from
by ttt0 5y ago
I don't comment in the comment section either, but I sometimes read it and I often see people accusing the channel of deleting comments, and the responses from the channel owners that they don't delete any comments. And these channels don't even have anything to do with politics or any controversial topics.
I sometimes comment in the live chat on livestreams though. I'm sure there is some kind of super clever and sophisticated algorithm to filter out comments, but in practice as far as I can tell, what comment in the live chat gets through is virtually just random.
- lmilcin 5y agoI believe channel owners. The comments are being removed so regularly that would be practically impossible for somebody to react so perfectly within 2-3s of every comment. It is just youtube trying to create illusion of functioning community by automatically censoring anything and anybody that can even potentially be negative, divisive or controversial. And we know the dangers of removing every critical opinion...
- ttt0 5y agoAbsolutely, in the full context channel owners often have zero incentive to remove any comments and it makes zero sense for them to do so, so I believe them too. Most people are aware of what YouTube is doing by now, but once in a while you have someone who will blame it on the channel.