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raptor1956:
Last week I got a popup within YT that indicated my ability to post was being paused for 24 hours for some violation they never bothered to link to or identify -- I let that slide not knowing what it was I'd done to warrant the timeout.  Then, today, I get another popup with the same statement about my ability to post comments being paused for 24 hours and the reason given was SPAM, but now I knew who and where this was coming from. 
I'd watched a video on the Electric Viking channel about the Tesla Cyber Truck and I noticed in the video, at the 2:08 mark, that to the right of Elon's head there appeared to be a huge gap in the trim which reminded me of all the complaints about fit-and-finish that Tesla has had over the years.  Some time later someone replied to my post with the comment "Says who?" to which I replied with several links:

https://teslamotorsclub.com/tmc/threads/2023-model-y-unacceptable-build-quality-and-issues-feb-20223.294083/
https://insideevs.com/features/500730/tesla-model-3-fit-finish/

I checked back 20 minutes later and my second post with links to the sites detailing the quality issues and I found that my post wasn't there.  So I thought I must have failed to hit "send" and I reentered the post with the links as above.  A few minutes later I noticed my second post was missing again and a moment later a popup within YT indicated my posting privileges was being paused for 24 hours and the reason given was SPAN or disinformation.

I fired off several posts to YT about this but I doubt I'll ever hear back from them as I presume this is an automated thing and no person was involved in my timeout.  What's troubling is that I did not use profanity and didn't call anyone names, I merely pointed out that Tesla has had a history of poor quality and provided links to sites that detailed those issues when asked.

In case anyone is interested, the first post I made is still up and the details for that are:

Video URL: 
Username:  @Raptorman0909

And the point in the video where I noticed the trim issue was at 2:08.


Brian

SiliconWizard:
I said several times already that posting links in YT comments gets the comments removed automatically no matter what.
And I guess that if you have posted such comments several times in a certain amount of time, then they take it as spamming.

Yes it sucks as I had already mentioned, as you effectively can't use links to prove/source your points. But that seems to be a YT rule *for sure* now and has been for quite a while. I've never seen any explicit TOS on YT stating that one couldn't use links in comments, but that's their rule. I have zero doubt about it, it never fails.

So if you're wondering, it's 99.9% likely just to be because you posted links. And it's 100% automatic, so the odds someone will care to reply are infinitesimal.

Circlotron:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 22, 2023, 04:34:43 am ---I said several times already that posting links in YT comments gets the comments removed automatically no matter what.

--- End quote ---
So why on earth does posting the text of a link on YouTube automatically become a link rather than remain plain old text? Why does this facility exist?

SiliconWizard:

--- Quote from: Circlotron on October 22, 2023, 04:53:35 am ---
--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 22, 2023, 04:34:43 am ---I said several times already that posting links in YT comments gets the comments removed automatically no matter what.

--- End quote ---
So why on earth does posting the text of a link on YouTube automatically become a link rather than remain plain old text? Why does this facility exist?

--- End quote ---

Good question. Only people from YT can answer that. And tell us *officially* that links in comments are forbidden. But my little finger is telling me that they won't.
Happy to be proven wrong though if the OP gets an actual answer or if someone from YT comes here and tells us. One can always dream.

Meanwhile, I encourage anyone here who hasn't run into this or is not convinced that it is true, to do the experiment themselves. Just post some comment on a YT video with a link. Anything. Use a link to some site as plain and non-controversial as possible to avoid having doubts that it may be because YT is filtering some web sites (but not a link to YT itself, that may be the only thing allowed, although I'm not even sure, so that's something you can test as well), rather than removing all comments with links without distinction.

raptor1956:

--- Quote from: SiliconWizard on October 22, 2023, 04:34:43 am ---I said several times already that posting links in YT comments gets the comments removed automatically no matter what.
And I guess that if you have posted such comments several times in a certain amount of time, then they take it as spamming.

Yes it sucks as I had already mentioned, as you effectively can't use links to prove/source your points. But that seems to be a YT rule *for sure* now and has been for quite a while. I've never seen any explicit TOS on YT stating that one couldn't use links in comments, but that's their rule. I have zero doubt about it, it never fails.

So if you're wondering, it's 99.9% likely just to be because you posted links. And it's 100% automatic, so the odds someone will care to reply are infinitesimal.

--- End quote ---

I have posted links many times in the past, in numerous places, probably even here, but it was only recently I've had that come back to bite me.  Mind you, the fact that I posted links was something I'd surmised was the issue but, again, I've posted links many times in the past without a problem.

It then begs the question ... is it Google themselves that are doing this or does the page owner (Electric Viking) have any way to trigger this?

To recap, I've been using YT for, well, pretty much since the start and although I've posted links in many YT comments I'd never experienced the account being paused until a week or so ago and now this is the second time.  Seems to me that if this was something they've been doing for a while that I'd have fallen afoul of it before now.  So, if this has been a thing for a while my guess is they've tweaked the system and it's now flagging all such content.  IOW, they must have loosened the tolerance for detection and now everything is against the law. 

In a time when fake, unsourced news is a thing and a terrible thing you'd think they wouldn't make it harder to reinforce a comment with legit sources -- instead, they are making it easier for made up nonsense to go unchecked!


Brian

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