What is it about this comment, that made the Youtube algorithm delete it mere seconds after I posted it?

It’s a brilliant comment, I don’t know why it was deleted. Maybe too smart for the algorithm??

Probably because it mentions the name of a commerical firm (LIDL).

That, or because it mentions ‘children’ and there is huge sensitivity to any posts that mention children.

There must be some word that triggered the deletion but we can only guess which it is.

@elbanditoroso
I excised both “children” and the “LIDL” reference to check. Still gets deleted.

Is there a length limit for comments? I would think “children” would be too broad a word for that to trigger automatic deletion.

No, I have posted longer comments before.

“pumping gas into LIDL” perhaps? I don’t know, it’s hard to second guess an AI.

Maybe it tripped over the umlaut?

I looked carefully at each word singly as well as the whole, and I can’t see anything at all that’s objectionable about it. It’s rational and thoughtful and well expressed. I would expect it to be welcomed.

Are you able to post other comments elsewhere without difficulty? How about testing a short, innocuous comment on the same page? Maybe there’s something in your profile?
 

Psst, “as he lay buried”

@Jeruba
“Buried” functions as an adjective to “laid”, which is in past tense.

@ragingloli, sorry, but no. It’s lie, lay, lain (intransitive): he lies buried, he lay buried, he has lain buried. Here “lay” (past tense) is the verb, its subject is “he,” and “buried” is a past participle used as a predicate adjective for “he.” Verbs don’t have adjectives.

Confusingly, the verb “lay” (transitive) has principal parts lay, laid, laid.

It was the quotation marks around “genius” that flagged you, for sure.

You know, if this were my mystery, I would track it down a lot like debugging a program. I’d try posting the comment a single paragraph at a time until I got a hit, then try that paragraph sentence by sentence, and so on.

Didn’t we recently see a Q where an invisible character in a word triggered some sort of anomaly?

When you figure it out, I hope you’ll come back and tell us.

I wonder if where you posted from matters? Particularly the phrase “pumping gas into” originating from Germany.

Maybe someone from the states can try posting the same comment and see if it’s flagged.

@raum I think that’s it. I just posted the whole comment and then only that phrase using my VPN. It stayed up when originating from the US, but not from Germany. I tried to test it with other countries, but Youtube then decided I was spamming and deleted all the duplicates. So @ragingloli, you might want to try posting the whole comment without that phrase and see if it stays up like that.

As I said, I already tried posting it without the gas part, it was deleted.

It seems the final proof that YouTube and its algorithms aren’t interested in mankind’s long term survival.

I think unfortunately you’d have to retype all of it. When you copy and paste, the algorithm thinks you’re spamming. :/