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It works precisely because it is a tool made by a random person, so spammers are not trying to avoid it. Such is the curse of spam: they get approximately inf
by mcpherrinm 5y ago
It works precisely because it is a tool made by a random person, so spammers are not trying to avoid it.
Such is the curse of spam: they get approximately infinite tries to post spam. We don’t really know how many spam comments Google is preventing from being posted, but any anti-spam measure they introduce will quickly result in the spammers changing tactics, probably within minutes.
- GeckoEidechse 5y agoYet some of the tactics of spammers/scammers are so obvious that it's surprising YouTube doesn't provide simple solutions for some of the case. For example a common example as MKBHD mentioned is scammers impersonating channel owners within their comments. Why can't content creators set an option to auto-flag other users that use their name and profile picture (to some degree of similarity) in comments under their video?
- kebman 5y agoMost of the spam left over is super-obvious. It should not be hard to remove it. A filter based on Bayesian probability would wipe out most of them with a high degree of certainty (i.e. very few false positives).