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Exactly. Or literally ban any comment saying you won something. The fraud spam is totally out of control.
by ageitgey 4y ago
Exactly. Or literally ban any comment saying you won something. The fraud spam is totally out of control.
- whstl 4y agoI used to be 100% sure that Youtube was the most dogfooded[1] website on earth. Now I have my doubts. I mean, there's no way the developers haven't seem the deluge of spam. The "can you recommend me a service to download movies for free" one was a thing for about two years. Now it's "you won join our Telegram", literally everywhere. [1] For those who don't know: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eating_your_own_dog_food
- gardenhedge 4y agoI guess the devs are working on higher priority work and don't have the autonomy to choose what to work on
- rtkwe 4y agoSimple explicit filters like that always snag up tons of random innocent users too. The important and hard problem of content moderation is you need to understand the context of the comment/post and that includes cultural context which means it's an even more difficult problem than simply comprehending the language which is a near hard AI problem on it's own.
- whstl 4y agoHave you seen those, though? The "sender" name is always "Text me on telegram (hand-emoji) @channel_name" and the text of the body is always the same. This has been going on for months now, in some channels. This is something that pg's 2002 Bayesian filter would very easily catch. http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html http://www.paulgraham.com/spam.html
- rtkwe 4y agoI have yeah. Extremely specific spam like that is doable but the filters need to be very specific to avoid false positives and then you're just playing whackamole with minor variations to the spelling or wording.
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- warrenm 4y agoIrony (or not?) ... I [legit] won something by commenting on a YouTube video a couple years ago