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YouTube Autodeletes Comments with Links

24 points by madacol ↗ HN
I haven't been able to post this link <https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/197397/misconceptions-about-the-universe-hubble-sphere> in a youtube comment, youtube deletes it in ~30 seconds

Though I did manage to post an answer-link here: (first comment) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q67vH0SKahU&lc=UgyQizABsao1A9EWtlF4AaABAg . But I haven't been able to replicate this

Anybody knows what's going on?, why that one got posted and the others didn't?

I rarely make comments, less than once a month, and I never use insults, I think I'm very polite and conservative when I critic something, so I don't think is related to my account

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sp332
I've never managed to post a comment with a URL that printed off of YouTube. It's such a huge spam magnet, I don't completely blame them. Maybe direct people to "Misconceptions about the universe - Hubble sphere on the physics stackexchange", or just some search terms to get people there.
madacol
At first I thought that maybe the title was the culprit. Thanks for the feedback
rasz
How to comment on YT:

1 open https://www.youtube.com/feed/history

2 click on "Comments" link in lower right corner, the https://myactivity.google.com/product/youtube_comments.... one

3 Now you can write your comment

4 wait up to a minute and refresh page opened in 2, if your comment is still there you are done, if it vanished you write another one, adding more new lines, removing links, substituting politically incorrect words etc .....

or you simply stop interacting with YT comments because Google is evil.

moltke
With the censorship on DuckDuckgo I've noticed Yandex's video search is actually pretty decent and searches not just YouTube but many other video platforms as well.
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Aerroon
The channel owner can disallow links from being posted in the comments. There's an enormous amount of link spambots that spam on there. As a result the filters are extremely aggressive and a lot of channel owners disable links in comments.
redthrow
Links are only one factor that gets your comment more likely to be deleted or shadowbanned by YouTube automod (in addition to channel owners' settings for filtering). It's a well known issue for 1-2 years afaik

See the discussion in the following video for example ("YouTube deletes your comments #Shorts").

https://piped.kavin.rocks/watch?v=PVlobDyTqeY

Contrary to what rasz said, even if you see your comment in the Comments History page, if your comments are shadowbanned, you see your own comments in History but nobody else can see them.

You can use a Piped page like above to check if your comment is displayed for others to see. Even the incognito mode doesn't work.

It's kind of futile to try to do any important discussion in YouTube comments