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MeowKat said:
If a website appears in the video or description, its spam and gets zapped. No exceptions.
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When can we expect to see foxnews, russia today, college humor,,,,, and other youtube channels that promote websites taken down?
 
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So... You would have them take down the video of my daughter with the link to donate to her March of Dimes page for the March for Babies walk? Because a web site is linked in it?
 
Most of these vids have no views, some have hundreds of thousands. My largest target had 1,100,000 views on one video and was two years old. Subscribers, ratings and comments make no difference. If a website appears in the video or description, its spam and gets zapped. No exceptions.
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That's a very narrow view of it. Websites could be listed for very valid reasons. For example, many people legitimately use youtube to get people more aware of certain causes. Would you shut down a charity's video because they have a link to their website where people could make a donation?

Or how about a "how to" video that has a link to a website which contains more information (printed instructions, a materials list, etc)?

If you're eliminating those videos you're actively destroying what youtube is meant for and they'd be better off without you.
 
Bignate603 said:
That's a very narrow view of it. Websites could be listed for very valid reasons. For example, many people legitimately use youtube to get people more aware of certain causes. Would you shut down a charity's video because they have a link to their website where people could make a donation?

Or how about a "how to" video that has a link to a website which contains more information (printed instructions, a materials list, etc)?

If you're eliminating those videos you're actively destroying what youtube is meant for and they'd be better off without you.
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Well-said. Accurately captures what I was going to say. That and various other comments about the OP being a self-righteous jerk. I'm 101% for being a spam assasin. Everything else he's doing is just against the spirit of the internet and America itself. OP is a red commie!
 
LMAO. Really? Wow. You must have a very sad and lonely life. Glad I get my pr0n elsewhere.

If you really want to make yourself useful, police all the fake movie trailers, those damn things are fucking annoying!
 
you should also target the scamers selling herbal supplements or some magical gadgets that cure cancer etc. there is too much bullshit like that on you tube.
 
Not sure if serious thread. In any case,

MeowKat said:
It feels good to know I made a difference today. Taking garbage off Youtube is worthwhile.
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Why not use the time hunting down YouTube videos to do something that is actually worthwhile, like volunteering for a charitable organization?
 
Seek help, my friend....I'm talking the professional kind.

BTW, did you get off your meds?....
 
MeowKat said:
If a website appears in the video or description, its spam and gets zapped. No exceptions.
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So you flag pretty much every LEGIT video on Youtube? Like every single video posted by Veevo, WarnerBrothers, pretty much ANY music video because nearly all of them have an iTunes or other store link in them after all...

Thanks for making the world a safer place - after you go jump off a cliff.
 
As mentioned later in the thread, I dont flag videos recklessly. Doing so could get your own account suspended. I should clarify the link posting since there is some misunderstanding. There are some sponsors on Youtube that pay to advertise there, like major household names you would recognize.

Flagging a sponsored video does not work unless a large amount of people do it, then automation will take it down. However it can easily be restored and when it is it will be immune forever. But if its something that gets a large amount of attention and thousands if not millions complain about it, with media attention etc. (like DavidsFarm) then Youtube may finally relent especially if other advertisers start pulling their own ads in response.

So to clarify, the link spammers are the ones who direct you to a site that isnt sponsored, that is not posted for a non commercial reason (like charities, instructions, news) and who isnt posting xxxx's of videos on multiple channels all spamming the same website.

Here are examples of spammed videos that youtube will remove:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTfEoy-hP7I

It has keyword spam, tiny url, movie images but no movie, links in video, suggested videos show that it is spammed over multiple accounts. By flagging one video with similar traits over all those accounts I can probably eliminate 200-300 videos just by using the suggested videos.

What a bot spammer channel looks like:

https://www.youtube.com/user/MAXoKluttz/videos

All videos exactly the same length, with the same content all leading to the same website. Flagging a few vids will take down 100+ videos and terminate the channel.

Software download, tips, tricks, etc spammer:

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCR2Bn60PV4BFUJqi6fXt8Eg/videos

Posting 25 videos per hour. Sometimes points to a blogspot page which can be reported and terminated, which I also do.

I could post a lot more. There is one idiot that started posting a website on how to meet women. He spams them as video responses, making that feature unfairly unavailable to others because of his spam videos. They are nothing but a soft porn picture that displays a link for 10 seconds. Going to one of his channels will show hundreds of three different pictures of the same girl with the same link.
 
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