I think this happens all the time.<p>I very rarely post comments on youtube, but when I do, I often want to go back to see if I've gotten any replies. Anyone else who's tried doing this has figured out that youtube makes it incredibly difficult for you to find your comment history. It's clearly not something they intend for you to actually use. They don't give you notifications about replies, or even the option to be notified.<p>Anyway, I think a lot of my comments have either been silently deleted or that maybe they work as if I'm shadowbanned. I've seen this in action trying to post comments on a news video.
Had this happen to me. At first I assumed its because I block most of Google/YT tracking (pagead, things like <a href="https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/log_event?xxxx" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/youtubei/v1/log_event?xxxx</a>), but unblocking everything didnt fix the issue. It would sometimes not delete a comment if I manually reposted it a minute later.<p>I just gave up and stopped commenting on YT.
I recently tried to post a comment on YouTube in a video where someone used Blender for modelling some icospheres for woodworking and I realized that there is a bug that produces irregular geometry.<p>I don't know why but it was silently deleted. Maybe because I don't have my real name on YouTube, maybe because it mentioned filenames of the source or whatever or maybe I'm just not paying google enough for them to publish my comments.
Google and all the rest give users the impression that the comments section, or in the case of social networks the feed, is a sort of digital market square of organic conversations happening unhindered between participants. It is not and never was. It is only recent events of the last few years that have made this abundantly clear.
Youtube has been using their platform to openly manipulate people's ideas since 2010 (it started as a tool to slow ISIS, but now you can get your comment deleted for mocking the CCP even in the US.) Use PeerTube, Odyssey, or Bitchute instead.
This could be for multiple reasons - a cache consistency issue, the user could be blocked by that channel, or the comment could contain a channel blocked word.<p><a href="https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/connect-with-comments_handle-inappropriate-comments_list" rel="nofollow">https://creatoracademy.youtube.com/page/lesson/connect-with-...</a><p>I'd guess that if the automatic comment approval system isn't immediate then YouTube shows the comment to the poster so they can validate it was submitted and they haven't made typos but other users don't see it - and when the comment is checked (~20s later) and found bad it gets deleted.
Recently in the Netherlands there was a small case against YouTube because they were removing Covid related content.<p>I don't want to argue about the specific content, but Google made it very clear they just remove content they don't like.<p>So they admit they censor content. And because it is their platform you can't do anything about it.
Assuming it is the word 'poof', a term, at least in my circles, which hasn't been in current use for at least thirty years I'm intrigued to know how YT deals with obscure slang in, a language with many fewer speakers.<p>Are mildly derogatory terms in Burmese (1/10th the speakers of English) treated in this way ? I'd be curious to know how an Anglo-centric enterprise such as YT can establish what semi-archaic derogatory terms there are in Burmese. I suspect the comment would be safe from deletion just as long as English speakers can't read it.
Maybe he could try to post another comment instead of the same one to pinpoint what's triggering this. There is a separate % sign, maybe a few words together causing filters to act.<p>His method is not proving anything because he keeps trying the same thing.
If I remember correctly people demonstrated similar things in 2018 or 2019 where you could see your comment but if you lived or it was gone, kind of demonstrating that only you could see it.
similar phenomenon for different reasons on Reddit: anytime I felt compelled to write up a comment, within minutes I would receive a notification that my comment was removed since I wasn’t a regular member of the community. How to become a regular when I’m not allowed to comment is a mystery to me, without even getting into how every subreddit has a different auto-moderator working off some opaque spam/profanity filter.<p>how much content is produced but never published online, silenced by robots?
I have also noticed this when posting comments containing certain words (that seems to be what is happening here) or when posting links. It can be frustrating if you want to back up your comment with a source.<p>I guess it's understandable given YouTube's scale. Easier to just remove all comments with links than to do more advanced spam detection.
Half a year ago, I found a Facebook bug where if you post a comment that contains both a URL in the text and a picture as an attachment, it gets removed in a few seconds. About 24 hours later, you get a notification that the comment violates community standards for spam. I tried reporting the issue but it's hard to get an answer or progress.<p>I agree with what a couple of YouTube comments said:<p>> censorship like this, that simply tricks you into thinking you're alone or being ignored, is a form of psychological torment.<p>> This is extremely frustrating, I've experienced this countless times. Most of the time I don't even know what causes censoring. It's insane<p>> They censor the whole platform like that, comments just go straight into the black hole and you never know what words triggered it.
a number of the channels i follow have a regular set of porn bots that post links, and also there are also obvious (to a human) machine generated comments.<p>I assume (without any evidence) that YT has a programmatic / ML approach to attempt to minimise this sort of crap..<p>I note that in this case the problem seems to be a particular word, but i don't see this as malice on YTs part.<p>I no longer post links as references for answers etc even when the channel creator allows them, after having one YT account permabanned for spam based (as far as i can tell.,) on links posted...<p>(anecdata is notoriously lacking in peer review)