YouTube will hunt down nasty comments on videos
YouTube comments are the biggest problem with this platform since its inception.
It’s just something the Youtuber has to deal with. Of course, it is possible to disable them. The problem is that this can greatly reduce the impact of the video.
“YouTube comments spam has been next-level out of control for months,” reads the description for Marques “MKBHD” Brownlee’s April 1st video titled “YouTube Needs to Fix This.”
Despite YouTube providing anti-spam tools and relying on machine learning to remove nearly a billion comments, it looks like there is still more to come.
YouTube does have many tools to combat spammy comments, and it removes a huge amount of them automatically. Using machine learning and human review, the company removed “over 950 million comments for violating our policies around spam, misleading and scams” in Q4 2021 alone, YouTube spokesperson Ivy Choi said in a statement to The Verge. “The vast majority” of those removals were first detected by automated flagging systems,” Choi said.
