[HN Gopher] YT-Spammer-Purge: Scan for and delete spam comments ...
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       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)
        
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 (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.
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       | 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).
        
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