YT-Spammer-Purge

Post-Elon takeover the amount of bot spam I encounter has definitely decreased. I'm not sure the claim of Twitter moderation is accurate, since before the takeover the problem was still present. The problem got so bad in YouTube Comments that eventually third-party tools [0] were developed to help purge spam. I agree that if you had a team monitoring spam they could write rules to drastically reduce spam. It's always going to be a cat and mouse game, but if the cat side was more proactive it would definitely lead to a better experience. [0] https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge

I just got my channel added to an 'alpha' of their new spam prevention algorithm... and it seems to be working so far (fingers crossed). I was getting around 300 spam replies to comments on my videos per week up until the alpha started—now I'm getting 0. So maybe they finally cracked that nut, but I won't count my chickens before they're hatched. I still run YT-Spammer-Purge[1] daily, but it's come up dry for the past week now. [1] https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge

Sure, it's hard to get around sophisticated operator., but most of the spam on YT that I see is not sophisticated. You wouldn't even need ML, for the majority of them. There is actually OS tool[1] that can do this for individual creators. That tool, finds a lot of spam, that YT itself does not, and it's developed by a single guy. So there definitively is plenty of opportunity to pluck the low hanging fruit. But Goolge has probably 100 of PHD's developing some kind of ML, that ends up performing worse than some simple regexes, because you don't get promoted for simple solutions. [1]: https://github.com/ThioJoe/YT-Spammer-Purge

Gmail, Twitter, Facebook and Reddit have all but eliminated spam comments, yet they are everywhere on YouTube. Regarding scale: this is the company that scan every second of every video uploaded for copyrighted material, I'm sure their servers could handle a couple of (channel-configurable?) regular expressions per comment. Regarding Scunthorpe: they clearly don't care about false positive flagging when it comes to ContentID and video reporting, so it's definitely not what's stopping them here. And if they suddenly do, they have the resources for human review and appeals like everyone else is doing. Regarding low-hanging fruit: a handful of individuals have done this themselves already and it works great [0]. I think Linus Media Group started using this this on all their channels and the difference has been night and day.