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YouTube tests stricter comment moderation system

YouTube has, for some time, a problem with spam. This is not so evident in small and medium-sized channels, but the larger ones, in which each video can add up to thousands of responses, have seen a clear increase in this type of publication in recent months, which from one to the another way they try to deceive the rest of the users so that they fall into the traps set out in their publications.

YouTube creators have become aware of this problem and, consequently, have started posting videos clearly exposing this problem, and they wonder if YouTube plans to act in some way, improving its comment filtering system. And it is that the manual review poses two major problems. The first is how long malicious posts can remain until they are detected. And the second is that, after a certain volume of comments, that type of moderation is unaffordable.

At this point, of course, I remember again that we are talking about large accounts. To give just one example, Saoko, the video of the song that opens Rosalía’s new album, adds on YouTube at the time of writing this news, more than 33 million views and a whopping 32,475 comments. But it is that the video published yesterday by Jaime Altozano analyzing said disc, in just 24 hours it has already accumulated more than 6,200 comments. This is what I mean when I say that manual review is, in many cases, unaffordable.

And here it is important to clarify that the main concern of YouTube content creators it is the safety of the people who watch your videos, of your audience. When dealing with this, they focus on the number of spam accounts that resort to phishing, pretending to be the author of the video or have some relationship with it, a trap that some users can fall into, who will end up, sooner or later, doing click on malicious links.

It seems, fortunately, that Google has acknowledged receipt and, according to Marques Brownleea YouTuber affected by this issue, YouTube is already testing a new comment filtering systemwhich we can deduce from its description, reduces the level of laxity with which potentially harmful comments are analyzed.

That this function, still in testing, has also reached precisely at least one of the youtubers who have denounced the situation, seems a clear sign that the videos critical of it have reached the YouTube offices loud and clear. Now of course It will be necessary to see if it works as well as it could be wishedor if spammers are able to bypass this new level of filtering, and spam continues to roam YouTube comments. Let’s hope it isn’t.

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