{"id":56468,"date":"2013-11-27T13:10:22","date_gmt":"2013-11-27T11:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onsoftware.en.softonic.com\/?p=56468"},"modified":"2025-07-02T01:00:25","modified_gmt":"2025-07-02T08:00:25","slug":"youtube-updates-comment-system-to-deal-with-spam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-updates-comment-system-to-deal-with-spam\/","title":{"rendered":"YouTube updates comment system to deal with spam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/features.en.softonic.com\/b\/youtube\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>YouTube<\/strong><\/a> has released a statement on its new comment system, promising to deal with complaints of comment spam since its launch.<\/p>\n<p>The social video site has made the following updates to the comment system:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Better recognition of bad links and impersonation attempts<\/li>\n<li>Improved ASCII art detection<\/li>\n<li>Changing how long comments are displayed<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>A Bulk moderation tool is promised soon, to make it easier for video owners to keep control of comments on their uploads.<\/p>\n<p>However, these updates are unlikely to keep unhappy users contented. Most complaints about the new comment system relate to forcing users to link to a Google+ account, and the perceived loss of anonymity that entails. The YouTube statement doesn&#8217;t make any mention of Google&#8217;s much maligned social network.<br \/>\nSome users were using ASCII art in comments as a way to protest the new system, so &#8216;improved detection&#8217; of this is likely to upset them even more.<\/p>\n<p>Critics accuse Google of forcing Google+ on users to increase its popularity, but YouTube counters that the vast majority of users migrated their accounts without complaint.<\/p>\n<h4>RELATED STORIES<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/youtube-comment-system-now-powered-by-google-plus\">YouTube comment system now powered by Google+<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/a-revolution-is-coming-to-youtube-comments\">A revolution is coming to YouTube comments<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/news.en.softonic.com\/users-angry-at-youtubes-google-comment-integration\">Users angry at YouTube&#8217;s Google+ comment integration<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/h4>\n<p>[Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/youtubecreator.blogspot.ca\/2013\/11\/an-update-on-youtube-comments.html\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube Creators Blog<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>YouTube has released a statement on its new comment system, promising to deal with complaints of comment spam since its launch. The social video site has made the following updates to the comment system: Better recognition of bad links and impersonation attempts Improved ASCII art detection Changing how long comments are displayed A Bulk moderation &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/youtube-updates-comment-system-to-deal-with-spam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;YouTube updates comment system to deal with spam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2019,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","wpcf-pageviews":0},"categories":[],"tags":[2355],"usertag":[],"vertical":[],"content-category":[],"class_list":["post-56468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-app-subdomain-redirectionyoutube"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2019"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":331737,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56468\/revisions\/331737"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56468"},{"taxonomy":"usertag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/usertag?post=56468"},{"taxonomy":"vertical","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/vertical?post=56468"},{"taxonomy":"content-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cms-articles.softonic.io\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/content-category?post=56468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}