Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit have all but eliminated spam comments, yet they are everywhere on YouTube. Regarding scale: this is the company that sc

Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit have all but eliminated spam comments, yet they are everywhere on YouTube. Regarding scale: this is the company that scan every second of every video uploaded for copyrighted material, I'm sure their servers could handle a couple of (channel-configurable?) regular expressions per comment. Regarding Scunthorpe: they clearly don't care about false positive flagging when it comes to ContentID and video reporting, so it's definitely not what's stopping them here. And if they suddenly do, they have the resources for human review and appeals like everyone else is doing. Regarding low-hanging fruit: a handful of individuals have done this themselves already and it works great [0]. I think Linus Media Group started using this this on all their channels and the difference has been night and day. [0] https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge