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Why are non spam comments on youtube flagged as spam?

Asked by beancrisp (1225points) May 5th, 2010

I have just been reading comments on youtube and noticed that when I click “hide” to show comments that have been flagged as spam most of the ones I read were not spam but legitimate comments.

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Kraigmo's avatar

Youtube has a lot of children and teenagers, and adults with similar mindsets, and many of them flag anything they don’t personally agree with.

Thammuz's avatar

Two main reasons: somebody disagreed and acted as a retarded 12 year-old (like @Kraigmo said) or the comment is visibly a troll comment.

Jabe73's avatar

I always wondered the answer to that myself. I see many comments where i think many of these a—h——s should be thrown right off from some of the garbage that comes out of their mouths and nothing is done than i see a comment flagged as spam and when i read it there’s nothing bad about it. I noticed it is very common for many people to not even talk about the video being shown but to just call other people names and harrass them for no reason. I couldn’t believe the trash that are in some of the comments and they allow it.

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