Matsuda Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 (edited) Google was hoping that the new comment section on YouTube will fend off trolls and spammers, but it seems there’s actually been an increase in comment spam.The company admitted that they had received a lot of feedback over the past couple of weeks and that while the new system was meant to deal with spam issues, it had also introduced new opportunities for abuse. Regardless, the company has now rolled out a bunch of new updates to combat the increase in spam. Among the implemented updates, YouTube now better recognizes bad links and impersonation attempts, comes with improved ASCII art detection and there’s also been a change about how long comments are displayed. “We know the spam issues made it hard to use the new system at first, and we’re excited to see more of you getting involved as we’ve fixed issues. New features like threaded conversations and formatted comments are coming to life, thanks to you and your fans,” YouTube comments. For the future, YouTube plans more improvements to help content creators manage comments on the videos. “Bulk moderation has been a long standing creator request and we’ll be releasing tools for that soon. At the same time, we’re also working on improving content ranking and moderation of old-style comments,” said YouTube’s comments team in a blog post. And while YouTube has been keeping track of what content creators are saying, they’ve been completely ignoring the backlash from the regular users, those who actually use the service for watching countless hours of videos each day. The fact that they’ve been forced to connect their profiles with a Google+ account in order to continue commenting has gotten on a lot of people’s nerves and many have even gotten around to creating an online petition asking for the update to be removed. There are currently some 214,700 people that have signed the petition in just a few weeks.Source Edited November 26, 2013 by Matsuda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cyberboom Posted November 26, 2013 Share Posted November 26, 2013 Yeeeah ! :cheers: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackieo Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 I signed the petition a week ago- I also TURNED OFF commenting on all of my videos. I refuse to accept this. If it gets worse ill just pull my channel and go to another host. I dont use Google+ and turned off 99% of its features, i cannot remove the link between G+ and my You Tube channel ! They FORCED IT ON US!unfortunately i do not feel google will back track and fix this-i have watched videos pro-con on this issue, i can see the features being helpful if youre a google+ guy BUT IM NOT!!I do not use social networking, nor do I EVER INTEND TO.This to me is all about tracking and managing large groups of people .... im not into it.they killed my you tube inbox and the best feature of creating and making videos - FEEDBACK. They killed it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jackieo Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 (edited) Sign the Petition!https://www.change.org/petitions/google-change-the-youtube-comment-section-back-to-its-original-form is that link big enough? LOL Edited November 28, 2013 by jackieo Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reefa Posted November 28, 2013 Share Posted November 28, 2013 Sign the Petition!https://www.change.org/petitions/google-change-the-youtube-comment-section-back-to-its-original-form is that link big enough? LOLPersonly i don't and have never had any sort of google account..But i have signed :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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