[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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