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YouTube banned on HN?
When I try to submit a YouTube video, I get a STOP SPAMMING message. Is YouTube banned?
The video I wanted to submit is of a selfmade drone with 2000kv (not mine).
- MichaelCrawford 11y agoI don't know but I would be unsurprised were spammers plying their trade through youtube. Is the video hosted anywhere else?
- FatalLogic 11y agoYouTube doesn't seem to be banned https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9440832 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443733 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9443733 https://hn.algolia.com/?query=www.youtube.com%2F&sort=byDate&prefix=false&page=0&dateRange=all&type=story https://hn.algolia.com/?query=www.youtube.com%2F&sort=byDate...
- brudgers 11y agoGoogling "selfmade drone with 2000kv" turned up the video that appears to be banned based on your comment. Googling "Quadmovr" which appears prominently in the video produces a lot of SEO'd results. It wouldn't surprise me if they'd hammered HN. Combined with the relative dormancy of your account, there's a good chance that the account and the specific video correlate with previous problematic accounts to trigger blocking. That a link to the video was posted anyway despite the request to stop spamming suggests that the heuristic may not be out of line.
- sctb 11y agoPlease email hn@ycombinator.com with any questions or issues.