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I'm having my comments I made the past few days receive zero engagements. It's not just me losing the early bird lottery too; my replies to a highly engaged comment has zero likes, while several comments immediately after me has double digits. It's nothing incendiary at all, just normal people's comments. But something just tripped the enigmatic AI and thenceforth I'm shadow banned.

Why you should know this?

Because YouTube is being a thought police between creators and their communities. It feels to me like 99.999% of creators on YouTube have no idea that this is happening, that honest to goodness people's engagements are never going to reach them on the platform; they're being silently silenced, by an AI that is figuratively a black box.

Look at this screenshot. If that's not damning evidence you tell me what is.

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The comment is straight up gone when viewing with a logged out tab. I'm definitely 100% shadow banned right now.

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 1 year ago (7 children)

This was a hard post to read.

You're not shadowbanned from YouTube. The creator you're commenting on has simply "hid" you from their channel. Which ironically is a shadowban, just on a creator level.

The level of panic and outrage you've displayed here despite not having a clue as to how the mechanic you're discussing works is remarkable.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (4 children)

That's incorrect. Here is a decent video explaining it https://yewtu.be/watch?v=48ObNiT_hpM

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That has absolutely nothing to do with what I've just described.

Again, this isn't YouTube removing his comments. His comments are not being deleted. OP was simply "hid from channel" by the creator. I don't know how else I can explain this, short of recording a video of my YouTube channel as I shadowban a commenter.

YouTube does delete comments. But this isn't that. When YT deletes your comments you can no longer see it in even on your account.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Again, you are mistaken. There are plenty of evidence where co-hosts can't see comments on their own channels made from personal accounts even though comments are visible when they look from that personal account. So unless you are claiming that co-hosts shadowing banning each other and then unbanning when they go back to check then you are wrong.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

What you're talking about has absolutely nothing to do with any of the points I've made.

Please stop typing.

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