Our opinion on spam comments (YouTube)

[Orbital Fantasy™]

At Orbital, we do a routine check of our channel's community > comments section. When we see a number in the tab labelled as comments being held for review, we get pretty excited thinking we may have earned organic comments from viewers (or potential subscribers). On clicking that tab, we are left very disappointed when the comments are of self-promotion or utter nonsense. Comments such as those are absolute trash, understood (spammers)? They are a waste of storage space on Google's servers. They are a waste of bandwidth to load, too, spammers.

You simply can't go on to somebody's video and spam. No normal person does otherwise. If you spam utter nonsense, you've got issues. You don't get free advertising, either, spammers.

Also, some spam comments advertise fraudulent/scam websites and there is no place for such comments on our videos (or channel) no matter what. ​

 

[Dave2017]

Good point

 

[UhoohExtra]

Yep. What orbital said. You can enter blocked keywords that screen comments. I use those that seems to work really well. I get alot of idiot amazon sellers offering so called Free products for me to review .. if i buy them from their amazon listing. Which apparently they will refund me for afterwards. Hilarious. Along with a list of there products which they just want me to press for the affiliate linking. Needless to say i block the wurd amazon, gaming, anythin spammy among others. Then youve got other youtubers that just want to comment on your video to try and get views to their channel.. thas ok but only if they are offering value to your channel too. As you have recognised many dont and complelty unrelated so i can see your frustration. Its kinda managable though i think.

 

[xingcat]

Very true. And even the non-spam comments are easy to spot when someone is just showing up on the channel to be seen. I can pretty much always tell when someone hasn't watched the video or wasn't paying any attention, since a lot of my videos are skits that take a turn towards comedy, and the comments will act as if they are real reviews or whatever. Comments should be engaging and relevant!

 

[Orbital Fantasy™]

Good point

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Yep. What orbital said. You can enter blocked keywords that screen comments. I use those that seems to work really well. I get alot of idiot amazon sellers offering so called Free products for me to review .. if i buy them from their amazon listing. Which apparently they will refund me for afterwards. Hilarious. Along with a list of there products which they just want me to press for the affiliate linking. Needless to say i block the wurd amazon, gaming, anythin spammy among others. Then youve got other youtubers that just want to comment on your video to try and get views to their channel.. thas ok but only if they are offering value to your channel too. As you have recognised many dont and complelty unrelated so i can see your frustration. Its kinda managable though i think.

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Very true. And even the non-spam comments are easy to spot when someone is just showing up on the channel to be seen. I can pretty much always tell when someone hasn't watched the video or wasn't paying any attention, since a lot of my videos are skits that take a turn towards comedy, and the comments will act as if they are real reviews or whatever. Comments should be engaging and relevant!

Yes! Comments should be related to the video, relevant and should show signs that they've actually watched the video. That is what comments on a video are for. We're so glad you understand, too!