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If bad spam detection was such a big issue for a social platform, YouTube wouldn't be used by anyone ;). In fact it's even worse on YouTube, it's the same patte
by mardifoufs 2y ago
If bad spam detection was such a big issue for a social platform, YouTube wouldn't be used by anyone ;). In fact it's even worse on YouTube, it's the same pattern of accounts with weird profile pictures copy pasting an existing comment as is and posting it, for thousands of videos, and it's been going on for a year now. It's actually so basic that I really wonder if there's some other secret sauce to those bots to make them undetectable.
- omoikane 2y agoWell if it's just the comments, I think a lot of people just don't read those. In fact, it's a fair bit of effort just to read the descriptions with the YouTube app on some devices (e.g. smart TVs), and it's really not worth the effort to read the comments when users can just move on to the next video.
- mardifoufs 2y agoI don't necessarily think that's true anymore. YouTube comments are important to the algorithm so creators are more and more active in the comment section, and the comments in general have been a lot more alive and often add a lot of context or info for some type of videos. YouTube has also started giving the comments a lot more visibility in the layout (more than say, the video description). But you're probably right w.r.t platforms like TVs. Before this wave of insane bot spam, the comments had started to be so much better than what they used to be (low effort, boomer spam). In fact I think they were much better than the absolute cringy mess that comments on dedicated forums like Reddit turned into