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Literally just made two of my videos public and immediattely got spam bots posting on both videos.

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If it's on youtube you can set up a filter for certain words that make them go into a check-first list (https://www.youtube.com/comment_management). You then check that list for what was flagged and either deny or accept (sometimes there's false flags).

Also, block any spam accounts you find - that way they can't post on your videos again. (Or, well, they can but they can't be seen by anyone, even yourself.)

My list of words to check for is this: phone number, my channel, unban xxxhelaz, xxxhelazz, win, winner, free,

As an aside, never tweet the word "Marketing" or any other business buzzwords on twitter. Trust me here.
LockeZ
I'd really like to get rid of LockeZ. His play style is way too unpredictable. He's always like this too. If he ran a country, he'd just kill and imprison people at random until crime stopped.
5958
I get a few of those for almost every video I post. Also, most of my subscribers are bots. Youtube tries to automatically delete them, but as long as they're just saying "Nice video content!" without talking about anything else, and hoping people will click on their name, I actually try to manually allow some of them while Youtube has them auto-flagged for review. I'm not even mad about those, they make me feel less lonely.
author=LockeZ
I get a few of those for almost every video I post. Also, most of my subscribers are bots. Youtube tries to automatically delete them, but as long as they're just saying "Nice video content!" without talking about anything else, and hoping people will click on their name, I actually try to manually allow some of them while Youtube has them auto-flagged for review. I'm not even mad about those, they make me feel less lonely.

Oh, yeah, those ones I let stay because they're harmless.
author=Liberty
author=LockeZ
I get a few of those for almost every video I post. Also, most of my subscribers are bots. Youtube tries to automatically delete them, but as long as they're just saying "Nice video content!" without talking about anything else, and hoping people will click on their name, I actually try to manually allow some of them while Youtube has them auto-flagged for review. I'm not even mad about those, they make me feel less lonely.
Oh, yeah, those ones I let stay because they're harmless.


Not harmless, they actually may gather clicks to fake sites and gain the users malwares and such. There's even speculation that those clicks help fund black market.

If even one person clicks a link that causes them malware because I let an abusive user create comments, I would feel horrible.
We're not talking about ones with links in them, but ones where they just leave a message. If someone clicks on their name they'll be taken to their youtube page, nowhere else. If after that they decide to click on a link on that page or in a video of theirs, that's not anything I can do anything about - it'd be the same of a more legit account where if they have a link on their page that leads to a scam. Bar checking every single video by every single person and/or checking every single profile, I can't really DO anything about it.

Besides, some real people just post that kind of comment on videos because they just wanna say hi. I've had a few turn up to streams before, and at least one was someone I met off youtube who checked a video and just made a total of one comment saying "Hi, I liked this video!"

Links, though? Those are auto-checks and unless I know them and where the link leads, they get denied.
author=Liberty
We're not talking about ones with links in them, but ones where they just leave a message. If someone clicks on their name they'll be taken to their youtube page, nowhere else. If after that they decide to click on a link on that page or in a video of theirs, that's not anything I can do anything about - it'd be the same of a more legit account where if they have a link on their page that leads to a scam. Bar checking every single video by every single person and/or checking every single profile, I can't really DO anything about it.

Besides, some real people just post that kind of comment on videos because they just wanna say hi. I've had a few turn up to streams before, and at least one was someone I met off youtube who checked a video and just made a total of one comment saying "Hi, I liked this video!"

Links, though? Those are auto-checks and unless I know them and where the link leads, they get denied.


Youtube autodetects these messages as spam, actually. It tells you to verify if they are spam or not.
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