[HN Gopher] YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments ... ___________________________________________________________________ YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments on YouTube Author : zikohh Score : 9 points Date : 2022-04-04 21:32 UTC (1 hours ago) (HTM) web link (github.com) (TXT) w3m dump (github.com) | nickthegreek wrote: | MKBHD just released a video where he used this and was happy with | the results but hated that it was even needed. | | https://youtu.be/1Cw-vODp-8Y | spicybright wrote: | ...people actually read youtube comments? | bombcar wrote: | The first few highest rated comments are worth a glance, | because if somethings critically wrong it'll usually be | mentioned there. | zikohh wrote: | https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-vOakOgYLUI | geerlingguy wrote: | This has gotten exponentially worse in the past month. In the | past, I'd see maybe one or two videos get targeted with Telegram | scams per month. | | At this point, every one of my videos is targeted, and usually in | waves two or three times before the spammers give up. | | Sadly, there are at least 5-10 people _per week_ who now email me | asking if the scam is legit, and I have to tell them no, I would | never choose you to win something then ask you to send me $100 to | send it to you. | | The tool linked here works perfectly every time for me... I don't | know how this problem is so prevalent (MKBHD said it's like 6-10% | of all comments on his channel now) and YouTube can still ignore | it (while doing other pointless things like removing public | dislike counts). ___________________________________________________________________ (page generated 2022-04-04 23:01 UTC)