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Why are YouTube comments so much different than any other comments made online (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by Touching_Grass@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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YouTube comment sections are weirdly positive always. It could be a video of some horrible crime and the comments will be about how great the channel is and encouraging the channel to keep making more videos. When j visit actual fan pages anywhere else online there are always a mix of opinions. But youtube is constantly full of obsequious people

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[–] nothacking@discuss.tchncs.de 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not only can the creator delete comments, but YouTube itself seems to algorithmicly delete comments, especially longer comments.

[–] Xel@mujico.org 1 points 1 year ago

They also auto delete comments with links, I was doing a tutorial and saw lots of comments asking for help with some issues so I replied to as many as I could.

I reloaded the video later during the day and saw that only some of my comments were visible, I checked the history and saw only some comments were there. Since I had originally written my comments in Notepad++ I saw only the ones with links were removed. You can bypass it by making the link not look like one but it's annoying if you wish to help people.