YouTube Is Hiding Comments Algorithmically | EP#197
I’ve been starting to notice YouTube censoring more comment activity on my channel. Whether it’s not showing me notifications all the way to showing me a notification but then hiding the comment on the actual video. They rarely fully rid of it and leave some trace which is the only reason I am able to show you what I’m showing you, though I have no idea how many were removed without my knowledge.
My theory essentially is that like the YouTube demonetized keywords, there are automatically censored comment keywords too.
Below are some examples of comments that were shown to me on notifications but didn’t appear in the video. Even clicking on the notification to respond forces me to refresh and not be able to respond as I normally would. The first one is a bit edgy, but it’s the truth. The second comment isn’t even remotely concerning unless the cut off part which they refuse to let me see contains something horrible, but nonetheless, I as a creator do not get to decide nor am I able to find out what was removed and why.
I started to notice on my video on the YouTube demonetization keywords blacklist
Below is me responding to a comment on my comment section that wasn’t showing up on the actual video.
There are also comments that I do see in my notifications and when looking at all comments, but not under the actual video. It even shows that there are 3 comments, but only displays 1.
In the linked creator updates page, here it explains that potentially inappropriate comments will be held by default unless you change that. It can be found here: https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9072033?hl=en
Most of you could have probably assumed this was happening, but I think it’s important to shed light on the examples and evidence we have at hand to spread awareness to those who do not see what’s going on. I’d like to now ask that you go forth and test this out yourselves so that we can all learn more about how this works and what constitutes comments being hidden.
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Talk to Viva Frei on YouTube. He's had the same problem, and has been trying to pin down what and how and where.
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Yeah we'd need a bunch of people to come together to document everything
Get in touch with him. I'm pretty sure he's planning legal action if can prove malicious intent.
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Wow that'd be something!
I mean, he is a lawyer by trade. His channel is all explanations of the legal system. And since he started converting certain cases (Jussie Smollet, Covington), followers have been automatically unsubscribed, videos demonetized at the 1,000 view mark, only to be re-monetized at 20,000 views. So suffice to say, he's on the warpath and probably has the chops to take them on if he's got the right case.
That and he's actually a pretty cool guy.
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At least bitchute doesn't do stuff like this. Hopefully they keep developing the platform.
Yeah definitely. Agreed.
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I've heard of this before but it was people saying they do the same thing on Steemit. You can go to your comments and it shows but the people you made the comment to can't see it. You usually always respond in some way back to me, sometimes it may take you a few days but last time I commented to you I didn't get a response back....so this is makes me curious if you saw my last comment and if this is limited to utube or there's a glitch somewhere.
Yeah I do my best. Not sure what I missed/was hidden. That's why it's best to comment on two platforms to be safe
.....yeah this place don't pay well enough to double up on time commenting...lol.
Here's was my last comment to you, had to go back a few days but at least you'd know which one it was.
https://steemit.com/dtube/@scottcbusiness/94xqeiklrxa#@sunlit7/pztnrb
ah see maybe I just missed that. I'll respond to that :P Cheers
dmmt! I was thinking to start my channel on YouTube. may be it’s not good time for me.
It may still be worth putting your content out everywhere possible
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This is happening for sure. It's happened to me personally on a few comments I left that just never showed up. I did mention a whole bunch of delicate "keywords" back to back though, so I guess they just filtered my comment out.
Yeah I'm thinking it works the same way that demonetization keywords do, but they censor
In a way it would be better if they returned an error message saying "sorry dude, you can't say xxxx anymore, you comment has not been posted", rather than just silently lying to me hahah.
Yeah absolutely. They could at least be straight-forward
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... and the Pope is a Catholic! Sorry if that seems flippant, but even before the recent YouTube demonitisation frenzy I noticed that certain subjects were publicised more than others. I uploaded a video about "Why I vote None", and it got no views. Zilch. Usually even the most niche appeal videos get at least a couple of views. That was the motivation for me to move to Dtube and Steemit.
Yeah I totally agree. It's getting worse. I am just here to document