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[–]MarkJefferson 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Yes, YT seems open and magnanimous on the surface, but it's just that their censorship game is more advanced and subtle. It is exhausting to work around and deceptive in that it makes you think you already had your say when in fact you didn't. And you can't really access your comment/reply history like reddit and twitter so that makes it hard to check for any removals. I once replaced every letter that could be replaced with symbols and numbers(@,0,1,$,3 etc) to get a comment through. Ridiculous.

I'll never fully get into commenting real, well-thought-out passages on YT until the system changes to be less restrictive.

[–]SnowAssMan[S] 7 insightful - 1 fun7 insightful - 0 fun8 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I've certainly taken to typing out much shorter comments/replies. Everyone on Youtube has been complaining about this problem. Their spam filter is clearly too sensitive. It might be by design though. I doubt old media's YT presence is affected by this at all. The more comments there are, the better the video performs in visibility, so if you're not part of a big company, but are getting "too many comments" "too quickly" then you end up being competition for the big 5, which they can't allow.